With the further development of Moore’s law, the process nodes of integrated circuit have reached 7 nm or even smaller size. In addition to the significant increase in cost, when the scale continues to shrink, there will inevitably be short channel effect. For example, because of tunneling and reduction in the separation of drain and barrier, the channel will be difficult to be completely turned off

Although existing energy storage devices (ESDs) that prepared by traditional technologies can meet the demands of many application scenarios in our life, there are still many special application scenarios which cannot be implemented, such as flexible devices, wearable devices and structural devices. Three-dimensional (3D) printing, an advanced technology that can realize rapid production of structural

Microscopic imaging providing the real-space information of matter, plays an important role for understanding the correlations between structure and properties in the field of material science. For the microscopic images of different kinds of objects at different scales, it is a time-consuming task to retrieve the useful information on morpholgy, size, distribution, intensity etc. Alternatively, deep

Room-temperature ferromagnetic materials with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy are widely sought after for spintronics, magnetic data storage devices, and stochastic computing. To address this need, a new Fe-BaTiO3 vertically aligned nanocomposite (VAN) has been fabricated—combining both the strong room-temperature ferromagnetic properties of Fe nanopillars and the strong room-temperature ferroelectric

Electrical energy storage (EES) exploiting secondary battery technologies is ideal for large-scale energy storage needs due to the rapid growth in proliferation of renewable energy sources and the emerging markets of grid-scale battery applications. Sodium-ion batteries (SIBs), a more sustainable EES option alternative to lithium-ion batteries (LIBs), have attracted intensive interests over the past

Achieving higher energy density is a very important target for the next-generation lithium-ion batteries (LIBs), which requires the innovation of electrode materials. Using multi-electron reaction electrodes for higher capacity is an effective approach to achieve the goal for higher energy density. Vanadium-based materials are an important group that can realize multi-electron reactions because of

Two-dimensional (2D) material nanosheets have been widely investigated for gas separation due to their atomic thick layered structures. For 2D nanosheet, there mainly are two transport paths for the gas: (1) the pores in the nanosheet plane; and (2) the nanoslits constructed by layer-stacked nanosheets. The in-plane pores separate the gases by size-exclusion or functional groups on the pores. The 2D

High-dense garnet electrolytes have sufficient mechanical strength and ion transference number of unity, through which blocking of Li penetration is expected. Nevertheless, the situation of Li growth through the solid garnet electrolyte is even worse than that in the case of liquid electrolyte. Many investigations have been carried out in terms of mechanism analysis and solution exploration. In this

As the foremost semiconductor, silicon (Si) is the ‘lifeblood’ of the modern microelectronics and optoelectronics industries. The development of Si infrared (IR) photodetectors is of great significance for Si-based optoelectronic integration and communication. The use of black Si, which can extend the absorption edge of the Si bandgap to IR wavelengths below the bandgap, is a promising strategy to