Peterborough, N.H. LED pioneer Nick Holonyak and his colleague Milton Feng at the University of Illinois are reporting a significant improvement in a hybrid optical transistor they previously devised.

Smartkem, Inc. (NASDAQ: SMTK) shares were up a bit, Wednesday. The company, developing a new class of organic semiconductor technology, today announced that it has created the world's first ...

Smartkem, Inc. (Nasdaq: SMTK), a company developing a new class of organic semiconductor technology, today announced that it has created the world's first all-organic-transistor (AOT) biometric sensor ...

Fast switching: the Hybrid Photonics Labs at Skoltech where the new optical transistor was created. (Courtesy: Skoltech) A new optical transistor has been designed by researchers in Russia, ...

If you’ve ever wished you had a faster phone, computer, or internet connection, you’ve encountered the personal experience of hitting a limit of technology. But there might be help on the way. Over ...

(Nanowerk News) An international research team led by Skoltech and IBM has created an extremely energy-efficient optical switch that could replace electronic transistors in a new generation of ...

(Phys.org) —Optical transistors and switches are fundamental in both classical and quantum optical information processing. A key objective in optics research is determining and developing the ...

(Nanowerk News) Researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay have devised a novel method to construct valley transistors in two-dimensional materials using brief light pulses, bringing ...

As demand for computing and communication capacity surges, the global communication infrastructure struggles to keep pace, since the light signals transmitted through fiber-optic lines must still be ...

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Even in the dark, snakes on a plane (at least those of the pit viper and boa varieties) could keep a close watch on terrorized passengers and crew thanks to small cavities near their snouts known as ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- By using one light pulse to control another, researchers have proposed a design for an optical transistor that fulfills the most challenging criteria set forth in a study last year.