1+ hour, 14+ min ago   (304+ words) Australia and Japan have completed the first successful field trials of a jointly developed high-energy laser system, called Boobook, at test sites in South Australia, Australia’s Department of Defence announced Tuesday. The trials took place at the Cultana Training Area…...

1+ hour, 19+ min ago   (544+ words) Semiconductor Engineering Research Bits: Aug. 18 Edge AI hardware/algorithm co-design; memtransistor with programmable response speeds; artificial synapse with long- and short-term memory. Researchers from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and TetraMem combined memristive analog in-memory computing hardware with hyperdimensional computing…...

7+ hour, 23+ min ago   (278+ words) Millisecond pulses let researchers reach extreme temperatures on heat-sensitive glass, producing a semiconductor that generates up to 50 times more electrical current from light Credit: Shahar Artzi, Hebrew University of Jerusalem The study, published in Small Structures, was led by Shahar…...

4+ hour, 9+ min ago   (210+ words) To overcome these limitations, the research team focused on zinc tin nitride (ZnSnN₂, or ZTN), a next-generation semiconductor composed of zinc, tin and nitrogen. During fabrication of the ZTN thin film, the team precisely controlled the material's compositional ratio and charge-carrier…...

8+ hour, 56+ min ago   (202+ words) The establishment of NZ's newest high-tech forum was a direct result of the collaboration between of the Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment (MBIE) and the New Zealand Institute of Advanced Technology (NZIAT), which took place earlier this year. "Tech…...

6+ hour, 4+ min ago   (213+ words) In an article recently published in Communications Physics, researchers from the University of Osaka have revealed a hidden mathematical structure shared by many real-world problems and shown how such problems can be reformulated to take advantage of emerging optical computing…...

22+ hour, 27+ min ago   (455+ words) Optical measurements can reveal the hidden collective motion and quantum dynamics of electrons inside a Wigner crystal. Unlike an ordinary crystal, the ordering of a Wigner crystal does not come from the structure of the surrounding material. Instead, it emerges…...

19+ hour, 55+ min ago   (694+ words) As armed forces and their suppliers work on costly lasers to knock down cheap drones, the drone makers can easily reach for inexpensive responses from the building industry. Fire engineers have quite a few ways of handling heat and doing…...

17+ hour, 51+ min ago   (640+ words) Do you love lasers and hate mosquitoes? For $1,000, you can install your very own bug-zapping surface-to-air missile rig at home – no military-grade budget required, provided the startup behind it delivers on its promises. The devices resemble home theater projectors in…...

17+ hour, 59+ min ago   (221+ words) Changzhou startup’s AI-guided device kills up to 30 insects per second, but no independent tests exist yet That’s four figures to kill mosquitoes. The detection stack combines three sensing technologies to lock onto a mosquito in roughly the time it takes…...