Researchers created a silicon chip with an integrated graphene photo-detector; the wonder material that seems poised to revolutionize so many industries could change the way we build computers, too.

(Nanowerk News) The ongoing fourth industrial revolution is data-driven and the optical interconnects are expected to feature higher bandwidth, smaller footprint, and lower power consumption to meet ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) utilizes mid-infrared spectroscopy to precisely analyze molecular components such as water vapor and sulfur dioxide in exoplanet atmospheres. The key to this ...

Photo 1. (from the left) Ph.D. candidate Inki Kim (co-author), Professor SangHyeon Kim (corresponding author), Dr. Joonsup Shim (first author), and Dr. Jinha Lim (co-author) of KAIST School of ...

Researchers have developed advanced terahertz photodetectors containing 'living' microelectrodes. A vanadium dioxide (VO2) layer was precisely deposited on a silicon substrate. Temperature regulation ...

KAIST engineers have built a hyper-sensitive self-powered photodetector, using a novel PN junction in atomically thin MoS 2. The device delivers record light sensitivity without external power or ...

A technical paper titled “Achieving higher photoabsorption than group III-V semiconductors in ultrafast thin silicon photodetectors with integrated photon-trapping surface structures” was published by ...

A new photodetector design combines metal-organic frameworks and MXene materials to overcome silicon's performance limits, enabling broad-spectrum light detection without external power. (Nanowerk ...

The integration of silicon‐germanium technology in photonic devices has transformed optoelectronics, enabling the realisation of high‐speed, high‐sensitivity detectors that are central to modern ...

As the graphene market develops, it will be important to highlight even more potential uses. The purpose of this article is to shed light on how graphene can be used as a photodetector. The Graphene ...