by Ingrid Fadelli | Feb 5, 2022 | Electronics & Semiconductors, TECHXPLORE
Large-area electronics (LAE) is an emerging technology for electronic device manufacture, such as printing or large-scale lithography, the process used to create flat panel displays and solar cells. Using LAE processes, engineers could create systems that are large...
by Ingrid Fadelli | Feb 5, 2022 | Computer Sciences, Robotics, TECHXPLORE
Last year, the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems organized the Real Robot Challenge, a competition that challenged academic labs to come up with solutions to the problem of repositioning and reorienting a cube using a low-cost robotic hand. The teams...
by Ingrid Fadelli | Feb 5, 2022 | Computer Sciences, Robotics, TECHXPLORE
Teams of robots could help users to complete numerous tasks more rapidly and efficiently, as well as keeping human agents out of harm’s way during hazardous operations. In recent years, some studies have particularly explored the potential of robot swarms in...
by Ingrid Fadelli | Feb 5, 2022 | nanomaterials, Nanophysics, Nanotechnology, PHYS.ORG
Magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene is a material made of two sheets of graphene placed on top of each other, with one sheet twisted at precisely 1.05 degrees with respect to the other. This material has been found to be a very promising platform for studying...
by Ingrid Fadelli | Feb 5, 2022 | MEDICALXPRESS, Neuroscience
Past research suggests that brain oscillations may support different cognitive functions by coordinating spike timing inside and across different brain regions. However, the role that the timing of these oscillations plays in specific neural computations is still...