Engineers at MIT have turned one of computing’s biggest headaches, waste heat, into the main act. By sculpting “dust-sized” silicon structures that steer heat as precisely as electrical current, they ...

MIT researchers have designed silicon structures that can perform calculations in an electronic device using excess heat ...

MIT engineers use heat-conducting silicon microstructures to perform matrix multiplication with >99% accuracy hinting at ...

Physicists found why holes move slower than electrons in silicon: not defects, but higher intrinsic mass, supporting ...

Associate Professor Yuichiro Matsushita of Materials and Structures Laboratory, Institute of Science Tokyo, Mitsubishi ...

Silicon solar cells were supposed to be running out of headroom, yet a new device has pushed their performance to 27.81% efficiency and reset expectations for what a single-junction cell can do. That ...

Researchers announced that they have achieved the world's first elucidation of how hydrogen produces free electrons through ...

Mechanism by which hydrogen generates free electrons via an interaction with the defect in silicon Associate Professor ...