Think about how easily you recognize a friend in a dimly lit room. Your eyes capture light, while your brain filters out ...

A nanowire diode with a built-in electron trap senses, denoises, and classifies images without separate processing hardware, mimicking the retina and opening a path to smarter edge computing.

Single diode integrates photosensing, memory and processing for neuromorphic image sensors PN junction diodes are the ...

PN junction diodes are the underpinning of modern optoelectronic systems. But, typically, they perform only a single task. To ...

P-n diodes are two-terminal devices that consist of two types of semiconductor materials (i.e., a p-type and an n-type ...

A physics-based model that accounts for membrane surface folds predicts cell adhesion on nanopillar arrays with 97% accuracy, ...

A new breakthrough in wireless technology could dramatically boost internet speeds while cutting energy use—by switching from radio waves to light. Researchers have developed a tiny chip packed with ...

Researchers have demonstrated a compact optical wireless transmitter that delivers very high data rates while consuming ...

Every time a smartphone snaps a photo, millions of tiny light detectors capture the scene and then ferry all that raw data across the chip to a separate processor for storage and number-crunching.

A new laser-powered wireless system uses light to deliver data at speeds exceeding 360 Gbps. It could enable faster, more ...

Heat has always been the quiet enemy inside electronics. Once temperatures climb much past 200 degrees Celsius, the memory ...