Devices and structures Archives – Page 3 of 18

Devices and structures

Home » Materials » Devices and structures » Page 3

Energy-efficient fabric helps wearers beat heat waves and cold snaps

Electrochromic conducting polymer could be used in next-generation smart thermal management textiles

A transistor made from wood

Delignified piece of balsa wood incorporates a conductive polymer to modulate electrical current

A transistor made out of a plank of wood incorporates electrically conducting polymers throughout the material

Researchers develop the missing component in robotic textiles

Fibre pumps provide a step towards wearable fluidic systems for physical assistance and thermal regulation

Photoexcited electrons from fullerene help create high-speed switch

Quantum "turnout" device has a switching speed four to five orders of magnitude faster than that of current solid-state transistors

A fullerene switch with incoming electron and incident red laser light pulses

Ionocaloric cooling makes a new type of refrigerator

Technique could replace current systems that rely on vapour compression of powerful greenhouse gases

This collage depicts elements related to ionocaloric cooling, a newly developed refrigeration cycle that researchers hope could help phase out refrigerants that contribute to global warming.

Surprising heat transfer behaviour seen in new semiconductor under pressure

The anomalous behaviour of boron arsenide under pressure could change the way we think about heat transport under extreme conditions, like those found in the Earth’s interior

At extremely high pressure – hundreds of times higher than that found at the bottom of the ocean – boron arsenide’s thermal conductivity begins to decrease

Chiral logic gates create ultrafast data processors

Devices that work using circularly polarized light are a million times faster than current data processing technologies

Defect suppression enables continuous-wave deep-UV lasing at room temperature

The first room-temperature continuous operation deep-UV laser diode could be used in novel sterilization systems and high-definition material processing

Wide-bandgap semiconductor materials have been used to make the first room-temperature laser diode that continuously lases in the deep-UV part of the electromagnetic spectrum

Water-based switch outpaces semiconductor devices

Laser pulses turn water temporarily into a metal

Superconductor spin-correlation measurement is claimed as a first

Electrons in Cooper pairs point their spins in opposite directions

Related jobs

Related events

Condensed matter | Workshop From Adaptive to Active Wetting Dynamics 16—20 February 2026 | Dresden, Germany
Condensed matter | Meeting JdA2026 – 55èmes Journées des Actinides 14—17 April 2026 | Cesky Krumlov, Czechia
Materials | Conference Smart Materials: Self-Organizing Polymers at the Interface of Technology and Nature 21—25 June 2026 | Prague, Czechia

Browse articles by content type