A new silicon material switches from insulator to metal in picoseconds. This breakthrough could speed up future computers.

A new method of changing electronic states on demand could make electronics 1,000 times faster and more efficient, ...

In nuclear physics, "magic numbers" identify specific numbers of protons or neutrons that lead to especially stable nuclei.

A rule-breaking, colorful silicone that could conduct electricity. Previously only thought to be insulating, a shift in the ...

This was made possible by changing the “electronic state of matter on demand” through a technique known as thermal quenching.

Image sensors are built into every smartphone and every digital camera. They distinguish colors in a similar way to the human eye. In our retinas, individual cone cells recognize red, green and blue ...

Scientists in the United States have designed a microwire solar cell that could reportedly enable the coupling of singlet fission with silicon. Key to their achievement was an interface that ...

Researchers have discovered a new variant of silicone that has semiconducting properties – shattering previous assumptions that silicones are exclusively insulating materials. The new silicone could ...

A newly discovered silicone variant is a semiconductor, University of Michigan researchers have discovered—upending assumptions that the material class is exclusively insulating.