Electronics - 11 News from the science department by TUM for the chemistry industry

Electronics - 11 News from the science department by TUM for the chemistry industry

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World's first center for solar batteries

Direct electrochemical storage of energy from sunlight

29-Nov-2024 - The world's first center for solar batteries and optoionic technologies is being established in Bavaria. The Technical University of Munich (TUM) and the Max Planck Society (MPG) have set the course for this with the support of the Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs. With the SolBat Center, a ...

electronics optoelectronics batteries
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New material will make locally flexible diodes possible

Temperature changes material characteristics: Researchers find new material with significant potential for electronics applications

08-Nov-2022 - Diodes allow directed flows of current. Without them, modern electronics would be inconceivable. Until now, they had to be made out of two materials with different characteristics. A research team at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has now discovered a material that makes it possible to ...

electronics chlorine conductors
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New materials for quantum technologies

Solids with special symmetries for quantum and spintronics applications

27-Dec-2021 - While conventional electronics relies on the transport of electrons, components that convey spin information alone may be many times more energy efficient. Physicists at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart have now made an ...

electronics spintronics material developments
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Spin-off develops magnetic cooling system for extremely low temperatures

Cooling for quantum electronics

11-Jun-2019 - The start-up kiutra is the first company in the world to have succeeded in developing a permanent magnetic cooling system to reach temperatures close to absolute zero. Such temperatures are, for example, required for the operation of quantum computers. The system was set up by a team of ...

electronics quantum electronics cooling
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Molecular Lego blocks

Chemical data mining boosts search for new organic semiconductors

18-Feb-2019 - Organic semiconductors are lightweight, flexible and easy to manufacture. But they often fail to meet expectations regarding efficiency and stability. Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) are now deploying data mining approaches to identify promising organic compounds for the ...

electronics data mining organic compounds
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Switching with molecules

Molecular switch will facilitate the development of pioneering electro-optical devices

28-May-2018 - A research team led by physicists at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has developed molecular nanoswitches that can be toggled between two structurally different states using an applied voltage. They can serve as the basis for a pioneering class of devices that could replace silicon-based ...

electronics molecular electronics optoelectronics
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A perfect team for nanoelectronics

Polymer-coated silicon nanosheets as alternative to graphene

09-Mar-2017 - Silicon nanosheets are thin, two-dimensional layers with exceptional optoelectronic properties very similar to those of graphene. Albeit, the nanosheets are less stable. Now researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have, for the first time ever, produced a composite material ...

electronics nanoelectronics coatings
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Inorganic double helix

A flexible semiconductor for electronics, solar technology and photo catalysis

14-Sep-2016 - It is the double helix, with its stable and flexible structure of genetic information, that made life on Earth possible in the first place. Now a team from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has discovered a double helix structure in an inorganic material. The material comprising tin, ...

electronics iodine material developments
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Graphene gets competition

Layered semiconducting black arsenic phosphorus as an alternative to silicon

13-Jul-2015 - Graphene, the only one atom thick carbon network, achieved overnight fame with the 2010 Nobel Prize. But now comes competition: Such layers can also be formed by black phosphorous. Chemists at the Technische Universität München (TUM) have now developed a semiconducting material in which ...

electronics arsenic field effect transistors

With carbon nanotubes, a path to flexible, low-cost sensors

Potential applications range from air-quality monitors to electronic skin

27-Sep-2013 - Researchers at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM) are showing the way toward low-cost, industrial-scale manufacturing of a new family of electronic devices. A leading example is a gas sensor that could be integrated into food packaging to gauge freshness, or into compact wireless ...

electronics organic electronics ammonia
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