A new study led by Rice University materials scientist Lane Martin sheds light on how the extreme miniaturization of thin ...

Typically less than one micron thick, thin films can be conductive or dielectric (non-conductive) and are used in myriad applications. For example, the top metallic layer on a chip and the coating ...

Definition: Thin films are critical layers of material, from a few nanometers to several micrometers thick, deployed across technology, electronics, and energy sectors. Their importance lies in their ...

These underpin computers, mobile phones and every smart ... A group at Stanford University has published a new paper showing that thin films of a material known as niobium phosphide (NbP) exhibit ...

Thin gold films offer a broad range of benefits for electronics due to their high electrical conductivity and transparency.

For the development of van der Waals thin films with high electronic performance ... and surrounding environments but also work as an on-skin computer to analyze all the data and send the results to ...

A research team led by the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) has developed an ultra-thin, flexible film that ... helping computers and smartphones function more efficiently.

A new grant from the National Science Foundation will allow a research team including faculty at Binghamton University, State University of New York to perfect a manufacturing technique that could ...

Surfaces, interfaces and thin films are planar structures that occur on the boundary of a material or at the junction between two different media. The physics of these systems is often heavily ...