A new silicon material switches from insulator to metal in picoseconds. This breakthrough could speed up future computers.

Researchers successfully freeze light into a supersolid, a groundbreaking discovery with potential applications in quantum computing and energy transport.

Silicon-organic hybrid integrated devices have emerging applications ranging from high-speed optical interconnects to photonic electromagnetic-field sensors. Silicon slot photonic crystal waveguides ...

Engineers have developed the first room-temperature, eye-safe, photopumped PCSEL by embedding silicon dioxide into photonic crystal layer.

Researchers at ETH Zurich have developed a method that makes it easier to study interactions between electrons in a material. Using a moiré material consisting of twisted atomic layers they created an ...

In a first for the field, researchers from The Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign ...

Researchers at the University of Illinois have pulled off a laser first: they built a new kind of eye-safe laser that works ...

Underpinning all this progress is the work of Hiroshi Amano and his colleagues, who made a pivotal breakthrough in GaN ...

A tiny new crystal-based transistor could be the key to faster, more reliable AI chips—leaving traditional silicon designs in the dust. Credit: Shutterstock In a potential turning point for ...

Atomic hydrogen can neutralize the "dangling bonds" associated with lattice defects in silicon wafers; and therefore has found important applications in manufacturing of several silicon devices. The ...