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Electronic components and interconnects can be simultaneously synthesized and integrated through the phase-patterned growth of two-dimensional molybdenum ditelluride.

Error rates in silicon qubits can be improved by benchmarking and optimizing pulse engineering techniques.

A hybrid analogue–digital computing system based on memristive devices is capable of solving classic control problems with potentially a lower energy consumption and higher speed than fully digital systems.

Electron spins can travel long distances in heavily doped organic materials.

Electronic skins that are able to restore their function when damaged in aquatic conditions could be used to create durable underwater soft robots.

Reliable memristive devices in which switching is based solely on electronic effects can be created from amorphous silicon by doping with oxygen and nitrogen.

A lateral heterojunction diode can be formed in a homogeneous monolayer of MoS₂ by using a substrate with different dielectric properties.

A nanolithography technique that uses a heated scanning probe tip can precisely pattern metal electrodes on two-dimensional semiconductors, creating field-effect transistors with exceptional performance.

The compressive buckling of lithographically defined, two-dimensional patterns can create three-dimensional piezoelectric microsystems with a range of potential applications.

A wireless, low-power optoelectronic platform, which is based on micro-LEDs, can provide multimodal programmable control over optogenetic stimulation parameters.

Integrating magnetoresistive random access memory with advanced fin field-effect transistor technology provides a route towards energy-efficient computing.

Body biasing and self-assembled molecular coatings enable 50-mV operation of ultra-small mechanical relays for low-power digital computing.

Magnetic-field sensors integrated on electronic skins can provide an artificial magnetoreception that relies only on geomagnetic fields.

A flexible charge-coupled device can be used to create a sensor capable of measuring the pH of a person’s sweat with high sensitivity.

A combination of spin–orbit and spin-transfer torques could be used to create a versatile magnetic random access memory.

The physical fingerprinting of a memristor crossbar array can be used to prove whether a digital key stored in the array is securely destroyed.

Guided self-assembly of block copolymers can generate the patterns required for the fabrication of advanced integrated circuits.

Nitrogen–vacancy defects in diamond can be used to visualize electric fields in an operating semiconductor device.

Through some unconventional approaches to improving transistor density and performance, the latest logic technology from Intel delivers 100 million transistors per square millimetre — and in the process, reaffirms Moore’s law.