UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — There’s a barrier preventing the advent of truly elastic electronic systems, the kind needed for advanced human-machine interfaces, artificial skins, smart health care and more, ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Doping, which can provide charge carriers to semiconductors, is an essential technology for semiconductors and devices, and it can be classified as n- and p-doping depending on ...

A Penn State-led research team may have discovered a means to circumvent the obstacle inhibiting the development of genuinely elastic electronic systems, the type required for improved human-machine ...

ZnSc 2 S 4 exhibits a direct bandgap and can emit light from orange to blue. Its composition can be chemically tuned to switch between n-type and p-type conduction over nine orders of magnitude, ...

A single laser pulse can instantly switch semiconductor conductivity, turning titanium oxide into a p type material and replacing long complex manufacturing steps. Semiconductors run all modern ...

A spinel-type sulfide semiconductor that can emit light from violet to orange at room temperature has been developed by researchers at Science Tokyo, overcoming the efficiency limitations of current ...