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The further development of transistors based on two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides faces various issues, starting with the high density of defects typically found in the materials.
Next-generation optoelectronic devices — including quantum dot and perovskite light-emitting diodes — could be used to build stretchable and multifunctional displays.
As the scale and application of artificial intelligence technologies continues to grow, addressing challenges related to the wider accessibility of the underlying technology becomes increasingly important.
The continuing advance of artificial intelligence requires initiatives to address the potential harms of the technology and efforts to develop new energy-efficient electronic hardware.
Computing hardware that can find the ground states of the Ising model could provide a powerful route to solving difficult combinatorial optimization problems.
Metal halide perovskites are of increasing use in applications beyond conventional photovoltaics, from flexible solar cells for wearable devices to field-effect transistors for unconventional computing.
The capabilities of touchless user interfaces that recognize hand gestures are improving, but their place in the future of everyday electronics remains uncertain.
Micro-light-emitting diodes — microLEDs — could be used to create the next generation of displays, for use in smartwatches and augmented reality devices, if various fabrication issues can be addressed.