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An OLED for compact, lightweight night vision
  1. An OLED for compact, lightweight night vision

    Thinner than a human hair, the device amplifies and converts near infrared light into visible light with the potential for low power consumption and long battery life.

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  2. This screen stores and displays encrypted images without electronics

    It uses magnetic fields to display images at the same resolution as a squid’s color-changing skin.

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  3. Solving a memristor mystery to develop efficient, long-lasting memory devices

    Newly discovered role of phase separation can help develop memory devices for energy-efficient AI computing.

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  4. You’re just a stick figure to this camera

    The anonymity could reduce unnecessary surveillance in an age of smart devices.

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  5. Managing screen time by making phones slightly more annoying to use

    Delaying a phone’s swiping and tapping functions forces users to think harder, making it easier for them to consider whether to keep scrolling.

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  6. Blue PHOLEDs: Final color of efficient OLEDs finally viable in lighting

    Synchronizing light and matter adds blue to the OLED color palette

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  7. New apps for visually impaired users provide virtual labels for controls and a way to explore images

    With VizLens, users can touch buttons while their phones read out the labels, and Image Explorer provides a workaround for bad or missing alt text.

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  8. $7.5M to harness atomic-scale defects for next-generation information processing

    Disruptions in a material’s atomic structure could act as “nano-pipelines” for efficient transport of charge and spin.

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  9. New kind of transistor could shrink communications devices on smartphones

    Integrating a new ferroelectric semiconductor, it paves the way for single amplifiers that can do the work of multiple conventional amplifiers, among other possibilities.

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  10. Nanoscale ferroelectric semiconductor could power AI and post-Moore’s Law computing on a phone

    Next-gen computing material gets down to the right size for modern manufacturing.

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