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By monolithically integrating organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) with complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor (CMOS) technology, implantable optogenetic probes can be created to selectively address individual neurons.
An autonomous wearable device that is capable of monitoring sweat for extended periods of time could help collect data for the development of personalized medicine.
A skin-conformable system that is worn on the finger, and integrates optical sensors with memristors, can accurately classify finger-written inputs in three-dimensional space.
Carbon nanotube transistors with high performance and integration density can be created using a full-contact structure to scale the nanotube–electrode contact length.
Physically unclonable functions that are based on magnetic random-access memory, and integrated with complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor circuitry, can be used to create secure and efficient compute-in-memory macros for edge computing.
A technique based on a scanning tunnelling microscope can provide simultaneous control, visualization and spectroscopic characterization of quantum states with atomic resolution.
A magnetic random-access memory device that has an antiferromagnetic material as its storage element can be electrically read using ferromagnetic tunnelling.
An elastic conductive ink — which is made of conductive fillers suspended in an emulsified elastomer matrix — can be used to print three-dimensional elastic conductors.
By selectively engineering the surface roughness of micro-light-emitting-diode chips, and thus the strength of the van der Waals forces that bond them to a substrate, large-area displays can be created via a fluidic-assisted transfer method.
Multilayer hexagonal boron nitride can be synthesized over large areas and used to enhance mobility in graphene heterostructures, illustrating the potential of the material as an insulator in commercial two-dimensional electronics.
An embedded 3D printing technique — which uses an alginate–polyacrylamide hydrogel supporting matrix and a conductive silver–hydrogel ink — can be used to fabricate hydrogel electronic devices containing various different embedded circuits.
By controlling ion-dynamic capacitance, electrolyte-gated transistors can be switched between different operating modes, providing flexible neural network implementations.
