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A special-purpose holography computing board, which uses eight large-scale field-programmable gate arrays, can be used to generate 108-pixel holograms that can be updated at a video frame rate.
DC-powered microwave amplifiers approach the quantum noise limit by using the interaction between microwave radiation and inelastic Cooper-pair tunnelling across a voltage-biased Josephson junction.
A hybrid system that combines a von Neumann machine with a computational memory unit can offer both the high precision of digital computing and the energy/areal efficiency of in-memory computing, which is illustrated by accurately solving a system of 5,000 equations using 998,752 phase-change memory devices.
A substrate-free solution process can create large-area two-dimensional tellurium crystals, which can be used to build field-effect transistors that exhibit air-stable performance at room temperature for over two months and high on-state current densities of 1 A mm–1.
Carbon nanotube-based thin-film transistors and integrated circuits, which offer low power consumption and highly uniform performance, can be transferred to arbitrary substrates, including biodegradable polymers, plant leaves, and a person's wrist.
High-performance carbon nanotube thin-film transistors and complementary circuits can be fabricated on flexible substrates, including ring oscillators that have a stage delay of only 5.7 ns.
Nonlinear circuit arrays can exhibit self-induced topological transitions as a function of input intensity and topological immunity against defects and disorder.
By exploiting the nonlinear and analogue tuning properties of memristors, robust security primitives can be fabricated using integrated memristive crossbar circuits.
The anomalous Hall effect has been observed in high-quality epitaxial thin films of non-collinear antiferromagnet Mn3Pt, and can be switched on and off using an electric field.
Using carbon nanotube transistors, stretchable temperature sensor circuits can be designed that suppress strain-dependent errors and achieve a measured inaccuracy of only ±1 °C within a uniaxial strain range of 0–60%
The direction of strain in a material can be detected using flexible giant magnetoresistive devices that consist of a strain-sensitive free layer and a strain-insensitive pinned layer.
The generation of a spin current by the anomalous Hall effect is observed by measuring the modulation in the ferromagnetic resonance linewidth of CoFeB/Cu/NiFe trilayer films.
Passive isolators that offer unitary transmission, infinite isolation and large non-reciprocal intensity range can be created by combining Fano and Lorentzian nonlinear resonators, separated by suitably designed delay lines.
Leaky integrate-and-fire artificial neurons based on diffusive memristors enable unsupervised weight updates of drift-memristor synapses in an integrated convolutional neural network capable of pattern recognition.
Memristors that offer good thermal stability, which is lacking in traditional memristors, can be created from a van der Waals heterostructure composed of graphene/MoS2–xOx/graphene.
In a human pilot trial, ingestible electronic capsules, which can sense oxygen, hydrogen, and carbon dioxide gas in the gut, have been shown to be capable of monitoring changes in a person’s diet.
The detection of force-induced displacements within compact MEMS (microelectromechanical system) devices can be used to measure electric field strength without significant field distortion.
On-chip inductors made from intercalated multilayer graphene can offer both small form-factors and high inductance values, without comprising performance, making them potentially suitable for the development of ultra-compact wireless communication systems.
Deep subsurface defects in three-dimensional NAND flash memory devices can be identified by exploiting the inherent hyperbolic metamaterial structure of the devices.
Using field-effect transistors made from carbon nanotube films, five-stage ring oscillators can be fabricated that exhibit an oscillation frequency of up to 5.54 GHz.