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Using EC-AFM for Nanoscale Battery Testing

On August 25, 2025 in All, Energy Harvesting, General, Power by Liam Critchley

EC-AFM is an analytical characterization technique that offers nanoscale resolution. By imaging and deducing properties at the nanoscale, EC-AFM can help provide new insights to improve the performance of the next generation of advanced batteries.

Tagged With: afm, atomic force microscopy, battery, battery testing, ec-afm, electrochemical atomic force microscopy, nanotechnology

Quantum Dot Fluorescence Creates New Opportunities and Applications

On May 9, 2025 in All, Energy Harvesting, General, Medical, Sensors by Liam Critchley

Quantum dots have unique fluorescent properties that can be tuned by changing their size. Discover how the tunability around the emitted color enables quantum dots to be well-suited in a wide range of applications, such as QLED displays, solar cells, bioimaging, and biosensors.

Tagged With: 0d, bioimaging, biosensor, display, electromagnetic spectrum, fluorescence, nanomaterials, nanotechnology, qled, quantum, quantum dot, quantum technology, solar cell

What Are the Main Semiconductor Nanofabrication Techniques?

On April 11, 2025 in All, General, Industrial by Liam Critchley

Fabrication techniques that create and manipulate materials at the nanoscale are at the heart of semiconductor manufacturing. Learn how both deposition and patterning technologies are crucial to creating advanced semiconductor materials and miniaturized electronic devices.

Tagged With: ald, atomic layer deposition, chemical vapor deposition, chip, cvd, deposition, extreme ultraviolet lithography, fabrication, layer, lithography, mocvd, nanofabrication, nanoimprint lithography, nanoscale, nanotechnology, patterning, photolithography, physical vapor deposition, pvd, semiconductor, semiconductor manufacturing, thin film, wafer

What Are Piezotronic Devices?

On September 5, 2024 in All, Computing, General, Memory, Sensors by Liam Critchley

Piezotronic devices are a subset of piezoelectric devices that use the piezopotential generated during the strain of semiconducting 1D nanowires to modulate and control the movement of charge carriers in different semiconductor architectures, such as p-n junctions and metal-semiconductor interfaces.

Tagged With: nanomaterials, nanotechnology, nanowires, piezoelectric, piezopotential, piezotronic, p-n junction, semiconductor

What Are Piezo-Phototronics?

On August 9, 2023 in All, Energy Harvesting, General, Sensors by Liam Critchley

Piezo-phototronic materials share many characteristics with piezotronic materials that help modulate charge carriers and electric currents at different semiconducting interfaces, but they also have photoexcitation properties that enable them to enhance a range of optoelectronic devices.

Tagged With: diodes, gaas, inn, leds, nanomaterials, nanotechnology, nanowires, photodetector, photonics, photovoltaics, piezoelectric, piezo-phototronics, piezotronic, pv, solar cells, zno

Nanoarchitectonics in High-Tech Applications

On June 30, 2023 in All, General, Medical, Power by Liam Critchley

Nanoarchitectonics is a technological process combining material fabrication and atomic manipulation methods to create functional and active nanoscale features in materials so that the intended device can be much better tailored to an application than fabrication methods alone.

Tagged With: atomic engineering, atomic manipulation, nanoarchitectonics, nanomaterials, nanotechnology, nanowire, scanning tunneling microscopy, semiconductors, supercapacitors

Can Designers Use 2D Materials to Build More Advanced Computers?

On April 28, 2023 in All, Computing, General by Liam Critchley

2D materials offer a way to go beyond the limits of silicon-based technologies and create ultra-small devices that don’t degrade below 5nm thickness. These small-scale devices can be used to develop more efficient and application-specific hardware for matrix and logic computing systems.

Tagged With: 2d, artificial neural network, matrix computing, nanomaterials, nanotechnology, snn, spiking neural network, tmdc

Could We Use Nanomaterials to Build Next-Gen AI Hardware?

On April 14, 2023 in All, Computing, General, Memory, Sensors by Liam Critchley

AI is becoming an ever-present technology in modern-day society. Nanomaterials are already having a big impact on improving and miniaturizing computing hardware, and AI-specific computing hardware could be one of the next areas that gains significant improvements thanks to nanomaterials.

Tagged With: ai, artificial intelligence, hardware, magnetoresistive, memristive devices, memristors, nanomaterials, nanotechnology

The Potential for Nanomaterial Inks in Electronic Devices

On March 23, 2023 in All, Computing, General by Liam Critchley

Electronic devices are advancing in many ways, and are moving towards very small devices and components, as well as new types of flexible technologies. The potential for nanomaterial inks to be used as a flexible and conductive circuit is huge for flexible, wearable and printable electronic devices.

Tagged With: 2d materials, flexible circuit, flexible device, inks, nanomaterials, nanoparticles, nanotechnology, nanowires, wearable devices

Nanotechnology's Impact on Energy Storage Devices

On November 25, 2022 in All, Energy Harvesting, General, Power by Liam Critchley

As society looks for ways of creating more efficient and smaller energy storage devices for various technologies, manufacturers are looking at alternatives to the status quo. Nanomaterials offer a promising option to improve energy storage devices' overall performance and size.

Tagged With: batteries, energy storage, li-ion, nanomaterials, nanotechnology, portable electronics, wearable electronics

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