How Graphene’s Electrical Properties Can Be Tuned
Jeanie Lau's lab found that stacking up three layers of graphene, like pancakes, significantly modifies the material’s electrical properties.
View ArticleKeeping Electronics Cool
UCR engineering professor and a team of researchers have made a breakthrough discovery with graphene, a material that could play a major role in keeping laptops and other electronic devices from...
View ArticleBilayer Graphene Works as an Insulator
Jeanie Lau's lab has identified a property of bilayer graphene that she says is analogous to finding the Higgs boson in particle physics.
View ArticleNot Your Grandma’s Quilt
A group of researchers at the University of California, Riverside Bourns College of Engineering have developed a technique to keep cool a semiconductor material used in everything from traffic lights...
View ArticleA Super Tiny Giraffe
Shaahin Amini was ready to quit. The Ph.D. student at the University of California, Riverside’s Bourns College of Engineering had spent three hours looking into a microscope scanning a maze of...
View ArticlePioneering Electrical Engineering Work Recognized
Alexander A. Balandin, a professor of electrical engineering in the Bourns College of Engineering and founding chair of materials science and engineering at the University of California, Riverside has...
View ArticleUC Riverside Nanotechnologists Help Launch New National Center Devoted to...
Three UC Riverside scientists and engineers are members of a new national research center — the Center for Spintronic Materials, Interfaces, and Novel Architectures.
View ArticleImproving Electronics by Solving Nearly Century-old Problem
A University of California, Riverside Bourns College of Engineering professor and a team of researchers published a paper today that show how they solved an almost century-old problem that could...
View ArticleImproving Heat Removal Qualities of Graphene
Three Bourns College of Engineering professors have received a three-year, $360,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to further study the thermal properties of graphene, which is expected to...
View ArticleAdvancing Graphene for Post-Silicon Computer Logic
A team of researchers from the University of California, Riverside’s Bourns College of Engineering have solved a problem that previously presented a serious hurdle for the use of graphene in electronic...
View ArticleProfessor Wins Medal for Graphene Research
A University of California, Riverside electrical engineering professor will receive the 2013 MRS Medal for his work on thermal properties of graphene, a single atomic plane of carbon atoms, and...
View ArticleProfessor Co-edits Book on Graphene
A University of California, Riverside professor of electrical engineering has co-edited a book about innovative technologies using graphene.
View ArticleEngineer Honored for Pioneering Graphene Research
Alexander A. Balandin, a professor of electrical engineering at the University of California, Riverside’s Bourns College of Engineering, has been elected a fellow of the Materials Research Society...
View ArticleCreating a Graphene-Metal Sandwich to Improve Electronics
Researchers have discovered that creating a graphene-copper-graphene “sandwich” strongly enhances the heat conducting properties of copper, a discovery that could further help in the downscaling of...
View ArticleUC Riverside Professor to lead Graphene Symposium
A University of California, Riverside Bourns College of Engineering professor is the lead organizer of a symposium on graphene research, April 21 to 25 in San Francisco.
View ArticleGraphene Not All Good
In a first-of-its-kind study of how a material some think could transform the electronics industry moves in water, researchers at the University of California, Riverside Bourns College of Engineering...
View ArticleCharging Portable Electronics in 10 Minutes
Researchers at the University of California, Riverside Bourns College of Engineering have developed a three-dimensional, silicon-decorated, cone-shaped carbon-nanotube cluster architecture for lithium...
View ArticleThe Next Graphene?
Three University of California, Riverside engineers are part of team recently awarded a nearly $1.7 million grant from the National Science Foundation to characterize, analyze and synthesize a new...
View ArticleResearchers Make Magnetic Graphene
UC Riverside physicists have found a way to induce magnetism in graphene while also preserving the material's electronic properties.
View ArticleResearchers Build Atomically-Thin Gas and Chemical Sensors
The relatively recent discovery of graphene, a two-dimensional layered material with unusual and attractive electronic, optical and thermal properties, led scientists to search for other atomically...
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