Finding pearls in the mud: eco-friendly tungsten recovery from semiconductor waste

12-Aug-2024 - Semiconductor industry waste is typically seen as a costly disposal problem and an environmental hazard. But what if this waste could be transformed into a valuable resource? In an exciting development, researchers from Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) and the Samsung ...

Scientists awarded for innovative 2D materials research

Jena Research Team Receives “Thüringer Forschungspreis”

21-Jun-2024 - For their research into customized 2D materials, a team of four scientists from Friedrich Schiller University Jena and the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering IOF have been awarded the “Thüringer Forschungspreis” (Thuringian Research Prize). The award for scientific ...

PFAS-free polymer membranes for semiconductor processing

Membrane production with REACH-compliant solvents

04-Jun-2024 - Due to their stability and resistance to water and grease, PFAS chemicals (short for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are used in a wide range industries, but they are harmful to health and the environment. Membranes containing PFAS are used in many semiconductor manufacturing processes, for ...

Chemistry researchers modify solar technology to produce a less harmful greenhouse gas

Potential for environmentally friendly fuels

09-Apr-2024 - Researchers in the UNC-Chapel Hill Chemistry Department are using semiconductors to harvest and convert the sun’s energy into high-energy compounds that have the potential to produce environmentally friendly fuels. In the paper, "Methyl Termination of p-Type Silicon Enables Selective ...

A step towards solar fuels out of thin air

The semiconductor-based technology is scalable and easy to prepare

06-Jan-2023 - EPFL chemical engineers have invented a solar-powered artificial leaf, built on a novel electrode which is transparent and porous, capable of harvesting water from the air for conversion into hydrogen fuel. The semiconductor-based technology is scalable and easy to prepare. A device that can ...

Faster and more Efficient Computer Chips Thanks to Germanium

10-Nov-2022 - TU Wien (Vienna) has succeeded in making a new type of material usable for chip technology. This enables faster, more efficient computers and new types of quantum devices. Our current chip technology is largely based on silicon. Only in very special components a small amount of germanium is ...

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 ...

Battery research - First online database on photocharged materials developed

Data was extracted from scientific articles published in the past 40 years and now is available in the form of interactive graphs online

31-Oct-2022 - Dr. Aleksandr Savateev, group leader at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, has developed a unique online database. To do so, he has analyzed and standardized research data from 300 papers published over the past forty years in the field of photocharged semiconductors. The ...

Modified microwave oven cooks up next-gen semiconductors

The breakthrough could change the geometry of transistors used in microchips

13-Sep-2022 - A household microwave oven modified by a Cornell engineering professor is helping to cook up the next generation of cellphones, computers and other electronics after the invention was shown to overcome a major challenge faced by the semiconductor industry. The research is detailed in ...

Building blocks of the future for photovoltaics

Research team observes formation of "dark" moiré interlayer excitons for the first time

19-Aug-2022 - An international research team led by the University of Göttingen has, for the first time, observed the build-up of a physical phenomenon that plays a role in the conversion of sunlight into electrical energy in 2D materials. The scientists succeeded in making quasiparticles – known as dark Moiré ...