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Electron tunnelling through a two-dimensional magnetic insulator is assisted by magnon inelastic processes that provide spin-filtering.

Topologically protected whirl-like magnetic textures are deterministically created and deleted using current pulses.

An implantable strain and pressure sensor, which is made from biodegradable polymers, could be used to track the healing of tendons and then degrade after its useful lifetime.

On-chip transformers based on a rolled-up membrane platform could help deliver wireless IoT applications.

Enhanced wireless pressure sensors can be created by relaxing parity–time symmetry conditions.

An approach to computing that is fast, low-power and precise can be created by combining an analogue in-memory processor with a conventional digital processor.

A holography computing board that combines eight field-programmable gate arrays offers a scalable approach to generating holograms with a high frame rate.

Direct-current-powered microwave amplifiers that approach the quantum noise limit can be created through the control of emission processes in a superconducting circuit.

The anomalous Hall effect in an antiferromagnet can be switched on and off using an electric field to alter the strain in the material.

Flexible integrated circuits built using carbon nanotube thin-film transistors can offer sub-10 ns stage delays.

Temperature sensors based on stretchable carbon nanotube transistors can nullify strain-dependent errors using a differential circuit design.

Isolators with superior performance to existing devices can be designed by combining nonlinear resonators.

Giant magnetoresistive devices fabricated on flexible substrates can detect the direction of strain in a material.

Neuromorphic computing based on fully memristive neural networks could offer a scalable and lower-cost alternative to existing neural spiking chips based solely on CMOS technology.

The stacking of different two-dimensional materials can be used to create memristors with high thermal stability.

Analogue computing based on memristors could offer a faster and more energy-efficient alternative to conventional digital computing in IoT applications.

Spiral inductors that are made from intercalated multilayer graphene, and exploit the kinetic inductance of the material, could help deliver miniaturized radio-frequency integrated circuits.

A microfabricated silicon device can locally measure the intensity of an electric field without any significant field distortion.

Swallowable electronic capsules can provide gas profiles of the gut and distinguish changes in a person’s diet.