In electronics, changing the path of electrons and manipulating how they flow is as easy as applying a magnetic field.

A new combination of materials can efficiently guide electricity and light along the same tiny wire, a finding that could be a step towards building computer chips capable of transporting digital information at the speed of light.

UMass Amherst team invents a way to create versatile, water-soluble nano-modules.

For the ever-shrinking transistor, there may be a new game in town. Cornell University researchers have demonstrated promising electronic performance from a semiconducting compound with properties that could prove a worthy companion to silicon

Work will improve processors, drivers, controllers and other circuits.

Two breakthrough studies track the nanoscale structural changes that degrade battery performance during cycles of charge and discharge.

Technique might enable advances in display screens, solar cells, or other devices.

Scientists explore ways to synchronize spins for more powerful nanoscale electronic devices

Junhao Lin, a Vanderbilt University Ph.D. student and visiting scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), has found a way to use a finely focused beam of electrons to create some of the smallest wires ever made. The flexible metallic wires are only three atoms wide: One thousandth the width of the microscopic wires used to connect the transistors in today’s integrated circuits.

Inexpensive computers, cell phones, and other systems that substitute flexible plastic for silicon chips may be one step closer to reality, thanks to new research published in the journal Nature Communications.