For the past 20 years, fission reactors have produced a nearly unchanging portion of the nation’s electricity: around 20%. But that percentage could start increasing soon. The advent of small modular reactors, or SMRs, and advanced reactor concepts, or ARCs, signals a new generation of fission power. SMRs are substantially smaller than most commercial nuclear reactors today […]
A team of researchers led by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s Trevor David Rhone, assistant professor in the Department of Physics, Applied Physics, and Astronomy, has identified novel van der Waals (vdW) magnets using cutting-edge tools in artificial intelligence (AI). In particular, the team identified transition metal halide vdW materials with large magnetic moments that are predicted […]
No one will ever be able to see a purely mathematical construct such as a perfect sphere. But now, scientists using supercomputer simulations and atomic resolution microscopes have imaged the signatures of electron orbitals, which are defined by mathematical equations of quantum mechanics and predict where an atom’s electron is most likely to be. The […]
Migratory birds are critical for the health of human agriculture and the environment. But our knowledge of their movements is surprisingly little. Using “snapshots” based on Cornell University’s eBird database, scientists at the University of Massachusetts created BirdFlow, an artificial intelligence (AI) that accurately predicted migratory movements. Critical for the AI’s accuracy, the team first […]
Metals are a class of materials that are fairly well-understood—we’ve used them in technology for centuries, from arrowheads to smartphones—but “strange metals” are a certain kind of metal that scientists don’t know how to explain. While it’s more often seen in a lab than in our everyday lives, figuring it out could provide new answers […]
Purdue University engineers have developed a patent-pending tool to make the manufacture of ultrathin semiconductors more consistent, controllable and repeatable than traditional methods. The post Purdue Engineers Develop New Tool for Ultrathin Semiconductor Production appeared first on HPCwire.
In a new study in Nature Machine Intelligence, researchers Bojian Yin and Sander Bohté from the HBP partner Dutch National Research Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI) demonstrate a significant step towards artificial intelligence that can be used in local devices like smartphones and in VR-like applications, while protecting privacy. They show how brain-like […]
Scientists confirmed that bilayer graphene can produce better results working as a semiconductor than silicon or gallium arsenide when the materials are used for hosting quantum bits in quantum information processing. At Forschungszentrum Jülich’s Helmholtz Nano Facility, scientists created double quantum dots in bilayer graphene that exhibited near perfect electron-hole symmetry. Their efforts are paving […]
The semiconductor industry could be worth $1 trillion by 2030, growing from $600 billion today – and there will be an acute shortage of talent to fill jobs as the sector grows. The post Education Costs, Lack of Engineering Interest Hurting Semiconductor Industry appeared first on HPCwire.
At the MIT.nano facility, researchers demonstrated a newly developed low-temperature process for growing 2D transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) materials right on an 8-inch wafer. Their successful integration of a 2D material on a silicon wafer can lead to the development of more powerful computer chips potentially benefiting commercial markets. The post MIT Researchers Successfully Integrate […]
