The high-performance semiconductor devices powering smartphone displays, AI computing, EV batteries and more are increasingly incorporating 2D materials to overcome silicon's scaling limits. To ...

As semiconductor chips become increasingly thinner, the components inside chips are locked in a fierce race to achieve the ...

Researchers investigated thermal aging in silver-coated copper electrodes for heterojunction solar cells, finding that silver ...

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POSTECH Research Team Led by Prof. Byoung Hun Lee Overcomes Performance Limits of Ultra-Thin Semiconductors with a Novel ...

Researchers have looked at how hydrogen-induced contact resistance could help to reduce changes in series resistance, in either TOPCon or PERC solar cells. They said degradation occurs purely at the n ...

2D transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) such as molybdenum disulphide (MoS 2) could be ideal for making next-generation optoelectronics devices. Those made from the materials so far suffer from low ...

Even the best relays can fail at some point, but what causes them to fail? Conventional wisdom lays the blame on worn-out contacts. And there is some truth to that view. Every electromechanical relay ...

Download this article in PDF format. Proper wiring and probing/contacting are critical to making successful measurements. When testing cells or batteries, using good engineering practices is important ...