US researchers have developed a semiconductor that is as flexible as skin and easily degradable, offering diverse medical and environmental applications without adding to the mounting pile of global electronic waste. [ + ]

The media tends to focus on the consumer Internet of Things, but thinking of a test system as an IoT device presents additional opportunities. [ + ]

MIT engineers have developed a technique that could vastly reduce the overall cost of wafer technology for the semiconductor industry, enabling devices made from more exotic, higher performing materials than conventional silicon. [ + ]

The induction cooktop is quite popular, both in domestic and commercial usage, and is considered one of the advanced technological innovations in the field of cooking. [ + ]

Researchers in the US have developed a wristband-like sensor that collects sweat, measures its molecular constituents and then electronically transmits the results for analysis and diagnostics. [ + ]

Researchers have fabricated printed transistors consisting entirely of two-dimensional nanomaterials for the first time, in a breakthrough which combines exciting electronic properties with the potential for low-cost production. [ + ]

US researchers have reported a technique designed to address mobile hotspots, which come about through electronic devices' inability to evenly dissipate the waste heat they produce. [ + ]

Chemists have developed a material that uses rotatable molecules to emit light faster than has ever been achieved before, in a breakthrough which could pave the way for a new generation of high-efficiency lighting. [ + ]

The thinnest, smoothest layer of silver that can survive air exposure has been developed by a research team led by the University of Michigan — and it could change the way touch screens and flat or flexible displays are made. [ + ]

US researchers have described a material that, when heated by several hundred degrees, transforms from an atomically thin, two-dimensional sheet into an array of one-dimensional nanowires, each just a few atoms wide. [ + ]

This article introduces state-of-the-art technology for acquiring AC voltage waveforms in a manner that requires no contact with metal terminals. [ + ]

A new method for producing high-quality conductive graphene inks has been developed by a research collaboration led by the University of Cambridge. [ + ]

Researchers have demonstrated extremely short and configurable pulses of light, in a method that moves electrons faster and more efficiently than electrical currents — with reliable effects on their quantum states. [ + ]

In 2017 and beyond, the next generation of wireless communications systems is driving a new level of technology integration. [ + ]

At the 2016 National Instruments (NI) Technical Symposium, attendees were presented with an overview of how 5G and the Internet of Things (IoT) are changing the future of wireless. [ + ]