Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) devices represent a class of sensors that exploit the propagation of acoustic waves through piezoelectric substrates to detect changes in mechanical and environmental ...

With the involvement of scientists from the Paul Drude Institute for Solid State Electronics in Berlin and the Universities of Augsburg and Münster, international researchers have presented a new ...

Researchers at the University of Rochester, including optics graduate students Arjun Iyer (foreground) and Wendao Xu, designed acoustic cavities, or tiny echo chambers, to strongly couple surface ...

In both developed and developing countries, advanced point-of-care diagnostic systems are needed for testing patients outside centralized hospital laboratories and other such facilities. Diseases such ...

Electronics traditionally rely on harnessing the electron's charge, but researchers are now exploring the possibility of harnessing its other intrinsic properties. In a Nature Communications study, ...

A team of engineers has made major strides in generating the tiniest earthquakes imaginable. The team’s device, known as a surface acoustic wave phonon laser, could one day help scientists make more ...

In 1885, an English scientist, Lord Rayleigh, had hypothetically shown 3 that waves could be propagated over the plane boundary between a vacuum (or an adequately rarefied medium, air for example), ...

Engineers have created a device that generates incredibly tiny, earthquake-like vibrations on a microchip—and it could transform future electronics. Using a new kind of “phonon laser,” the team can ...

Since the discovery of electricity, countless advancements in technology have relied on harnessing the electron’s charge, which is the fundamental principle behind most of traditional electronics. Now ...

Scientists identify two sound-driven mechanisms for generating orbital currents, merging acoustics with cutting-edge electron physics. (Nanowerk News) Electronics traditionally rely on harnessing the ...