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Silicon-germanium photo-receiver for mainstream telecom-waveband networks on a chip

“Researchers at C2N, in co-operation with CEA LETI and STMicroelectronics, have demonstrated a power-efficient and high-speed silicon-germanium avalanche photo-receiver. The device is fully compatible with accessible semiconductor technology and fiber-optic links operated at telecom waveband standard. Owing to its low-cost …

Skoltech researchers solve a 60-year-old puzzle about a superhard material

“Skoltech researchers together with their industrial colleagues and academic partners have cracked a 1960s puzzle about the crystal structure of a superhard tungsten boride that can be extremely useful in various industrial applications, including drilling technology. The research, supported by …

Slothbot Takes a Leisurely Approach to Environmental Monitoring

“For environmental monitoring, precision agriculture, infrastructure maintenance and certain security applications, slow and energy efficient can be better than fast and always needing a recharge. That’s where “SlothBot” comes in. Powered by a pair of photovoltaic panels and designed …

Stanford-led team shows how to store data using 2D materials instead of silicon chips

“Researchers have invented a way to slide atomically-thin layers of 2D materials over one another to store more data, in less space and using less energy. A Stanford-led team has invented a way to store data by sliding atomically thin …

Super-Sized RGB Seven-Segment Display Lamp

“I will be showing you how I constructed my Super-Sized Seven Segment Display RGB Lamp although you probably already gathered that from the title 😄. As seen in the images above, this project will be a scaled up version of a …

The Euclid space telescope is coming together

“ESA’s Euclid mission has reached another milestone on its journey towards launch. Its two instruments are now built and fully tested. These have been delivered to Airbus Defence and Space in Toulouse, France, where they are now being integrated …

The Spin State Story: Observation of the Quantum Spin Liquid State in Novel Material

“New insight into the spin behavior in an exotic state of matter puts us closer to next-generation spintronic devices The quantum spin liquid (QSL) state is an exotic state of matter where the spin of electrons, which generally exhibits order …

The world’s lightest shielding material

“Empa researchers have succeeded in applying aerogels to microelectronics: Aerogels based on cellulose nanofibers can effectively shield electromagnetic radiation over a wide frequency range – and they are unrivalled in terms of weight. Electric motors and electronic devices generate electromagnetic fields …

Towards Lasers Powerful Enough to Investigate a New Kind of Physics

“In a paper that made the cover of the journal Applied Physics Letters, an international team of researchers has demonstrated an innovative technique for increasing the intensity of lasers. This approach, based on the compression of light pulses, would make …

Two Player Game System for PyGamer and RFM69HCW Radio Wing

“The Adafruit PyGamer is a powerful platform for creating your own handheld games. It can be programmed in MakeCode, CircuitPython, and Arduino C++. However most of the games that have been developed for this platform have been single player games …