Making computer chips smaller is not just about better design. It also depends on a critical step in manufacturing called patterning, where nanoscale structures are carved into materials to form the ...

Researchers at Penn State in the US have developed a microscopic, 2D-material-based thermometer designed ...

Researchers at Cornell University have developed a powerful imaging technique that reveals atomic scale defects inside computer chips for the first time. Using an advanced electron microscopy method, ...

The semiconductor chips driving modern-day computer processors are covered in billions of individual transistors, each of ...

Researchers have built a small-scale computer that runs on thermal noise, the random electrical fluctuations that conventional chip designers spend billions trying to suppress. The device, called a ...

A stunning new imaging breakthrough lets scientists see — and fix — the atomic flaws hiding inside tomorrow’s computer chips.

Jiang returns to China to advance information technology by creating smaller, faster and more energy-efficient computer chips ...