http://www.materialsviews.com Semiconductors MaterialsViews Rss Feed http://www.materialsviews.com/details/news/804703/Push-Button_Logic_on_the_Nanoscale.html Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology have created tiny logic circuits that can be used as the basis of nanometer-scale robotics and processors using a single material as both the button and the circuit. 2010-08-19T09:47:00Z http://www.materialsviews.com/details/news/806849/Melting_Upon_Cooling.html When infused with certain impurities, silicon can melt when cooled, giving rise to an easier way to purify silicon semiconductors. 2010-08-10T16:24:00Z http://www.materialsviews.com/details/news/760371/Researchers_Keep_Eye_on_the_Ball_with_STM.html Scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) is employed to image individual “soccer ball” molecules (fullerenes) underneath an atomic layer of graphite. 2010-07-16T12:13:00Z http://www.materialsviews.com/details/news/758245/On-chip_photon_guns.html Single-photon light sources that emit strictly one photon at a time, in a high repetition rate are extremely important for quantum information science. Although this “photon gun” is a simple concept, it is far from a trivial task. 2010-07-09T09:45:00Z http://www.materialsviews.com/details/news/742341/Self-Assembling_Devices.html Design and synthesis of new nanoparticle-based organic devices. 2010-06-15T16:43:00Z http://www.materialsviews.com/details/news/712301/Laser_bomb_detection.html Organic semiconductor lasers can be used to detect tiny amounts of the vapors emitted by explosive devices. 2010-06-02T12:57:00Z http://www.materialsviews.com/details/news/693449/Free_of_junctions.html Irish researchers have created a transistor structure without semiconductor junctions.  2010-05-12T14:42:00Z http://www.materialsviews.com/details/news/693445/Gallium_Arsenide_Infiltrates_Nanoparticle_Multilayers.html Gallium arsenide is infiltrated for the first time within porous nanoparticle-based periodic multilayers to yield a new structure displaying finely tuned enhanced optical reflectance. 2010-05-12T14:37:00Z http://www.materialsviews.com/details/news/690813/New_twists_in_nitride_devices.html US and Lithuanian researchers have clarified important high carrier injection phenomena in nitride LEDs and FETs. 2010-05-05T13:19:00Z http://www.materialsviews.com/details/news/689641/Venturing_on_dryer_land_Chalcopyrite_solar_cells_without_a_buffer_layer.html Partially reactive sputtering of Zn(O,S) shows potential for Cd-free thin film cells with chalcopyrite absorbers. 2010-04-30T09:51:00Z