UDRI offers basic and applied research on nanoelectronic materials synthesis, characterization, and device fabrication and performance. We maintain state-of-the-art synthesis and characterization ...

Charge carriers have been confined by exploiting the small difference between the bandgap energies of the two naturally occurring stable isotopes of carbon. Many high-speed electronic and ...

Besides transistors, nanoelectronic devices play a role in data storage (memory). Here, spintronics – the study and exploitation in solid-state devices of electron spin and its associated magnetic ...

A number of laboratories support the research activities in these areas as, for example, the Nanoelectronic Devices and Systems Laboratory, the High Performance Architectures Research (HiPer) ...

Northwestern Engineering researchers have developed a new nanoelectronic device that can perform accurate machine-learning classification tasks in the most energy-efficient manner yet.

Metals are well-known for their plasmonic properties—collective oscillations of free electrons that produce unique optical ...

This allows for the tuning of electronic properties by controlling the nanoribbon dimensions, enabling their use in nanoelectronic devices such as field-effect transistors, sensors, and interconnects.

In a major stride forward for nanoscience, researchers have uncovered a groundbreaking phenomenon -- electron confinement-induced plasmonic breakdown in metals.This study opens new avenues for underst ...