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Nanowire transistors replicate how the retina edits before the brain sees

Tellurium nanowire transistors switch between boosting and suppressing their light response through voltage alone, enabling ...

MIT electronics researchers develop a new way to fabricate transistors on the backend of finished dies, to keep pushing the limit of chip densities ever higher

Traditional CMOS chips are fabricated by applying and then etching repeated layers of different materials, applied to a wafer ...

All-optical modulation in silicon achieved via an electron avalanche process

Over the past decades, engineers have introduced numerous technologies that rely on light and its underlying characteristics.
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The Unexpected Reasons Scientists Are Making Mushroom Computers

Believe it or not, our brains are much better thinkers than our personal computers are. But scientists hope to change that by creating "neuromorphic computers" to emulate the efficiency of the human ...