Owing to increasing consumer demand for higher data-storage capacities and the recording of high-definition television, attention is now shifting from the standard DVD to high-definition-DVD (HD-DVD) ...

The growing importance of high-power diode technology for materials-processing applications has fuelled a series of acquisitions in the area. It's been an interesting few months for the laser-diode ...

Radio over fiber transports RF signals via optical fiber, enabling low-loss distribution for wireless networks, radar systems, and radio astronomy applications.

Researchers at the University of Basel have developed a new approach to applying thermodynamics to microscopic quantum systems. In 1798, the officer and physicist Benjamin Thompson (a.k.a. Count ...

Two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors are thin materials (i.e., one-atom thick) with advantageous electronic properties. These ...