Innovation partnership in the growth market of printed electronics

21-Dec-2022

The specialty chemicals group ALTANA has acquired a stake in the tech startup SARALON. The young company specializes in the development of inks for printing electronics. In addition, it offers prefabricated electronic components that enable printers to quickly build capacities for printing ...

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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 ...

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Scientists were able to observe and document the growth of hexagonal boron nitride for the first time

28-Oct-2022

Atomically thin 2D materials for applications in microelectronics or nanotechnology are grown by breaking down gas on a hot metal surface. Due to the high temperatures and rapid transformation of the gas, it is extremely difficult to observe this process. Researchers from TU Graz have now joined ...

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Sensors and actuators of the future

02-Sep-2022

Sustainable electronic components can be made from wood with the help of a novel process that uses a laser to engrave electrically conductive structures on veneers. Aresearch team at Empa and at ETH’s Institute for Building Materials has developed a practical and versatile method for making ...

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Just add a drop of water

02-Aug-2022

A team of researchers at Empa developed a water-activated disposable paper battery. The researchers suggest that it could be used to power a wide range of low-power, single-use disposable electronics – such as smart labels for tracking objects, environmental sensors and medical diagnostic devices ...

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High carrier mobility in cubic boron arsenide offers promise for next-gen electronics

27-Jul-2022

Researchers have for the first time experimentally discovered that a cubic boron arsenide crystal offers high carrier mobility for both electrons and holes – the two ways in which a charge is carried in a semiconducting material – suggesting a major advance for next-generation electronics. While ...

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Stone microenergy devices could provide high-performance, customizable and conveniently accessible power from natural building materials

13-Jul-2022

What if you could power the smart thermostats, speakers and lights in your home with a kitchen countertop? Stones, such as marble and granite, are natural, eco-friendly materials that many people building or renovating houses already use. Now, in a step toward integrating energy storage with ...

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A new material holds promise for the next generation of organic electronics

28-Jun-2022

For decades, field-effect transistors enabled by silicon-based semiconductors have powered the electronics revolution. But in recent years, manufacturers have come up against hard physical limits to further size reductions and efficiency gains of silicon chips. That has scientists and engineers ...

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Metal-free polymeric materials for printed rechargeable solid-state batteries

25-May-2022

InnovationLab announces that it has acquired theTAeTTOOz® printable battery technology from Evonik. InnovationLab and Evonik have been close partners in this field for many years and have jointly driven the technological development of TAeTTOOz to the present threshold of industrial scale ...

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Shrinking Tesla technology: An application-oriented method for an unsolved problem in microelectronics

22-Feb-2022

Computers are getting smaller and smaller, just as current cell phones offer computing power similar to that of a laptop. And the trend toward miniaturization continues. Smart dust applications (tiny microelectronic devices), such as biocompatible sensor systems in the body, demand computers and ...

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