A team led by Professor Qi Zhu received an NSF Design for Environmental Sustainability in Computing award to extend hardware life and reduce waste and emissions When it comes to electronic waste, ...

Stretchable electronics combines the electronic performance of conventional wafer-based semiconductor devices and mechanical properties of a rubber band, and thus can have very broad applications that ...

A printed electronic circuit on a clear, flexible substrate draped over a human hair. This flexible transistor device is made entirely of biodegradable materials, including a semiconducting polymer ...

Amey Luktuke, a graduate research assistant in materials engineering at Purdue, recently defended his PhD thesis addressing the effects of miniaturization of electronic devices. In simple terms, in ...

The important materials making transient electronics a reality. The current challenges of transient electronics. How transient electronics could tackle e-waste. Electronics have long been defined by ...

A variety of linear models are available to represent common active electronic devices such as transistors and vacuum tubes. Devices operating under large-signal conditions often require nonlinear ...

Overheating of wearable skin-like electronic devices increases the risk of skin burning and results in performance degradation. A research team has now invented a photonic material-based 'soft, ...

A University of Minnesota Twin Cities team has, for the first time, synthesized a thin film of a unique topological semimetal material that has the potential to generate more computing power and ...

Chinese report suggests electronic devices lead to vision problems. June 3, 2011— -- Students in Shanghai spend about three hours a day using electronic devices, and experts there believe that ...