In an important step toward visual prostheses, biocompatible electrodes can convert infrared light into nerve impulses, as ...

Intense, extremely short-wave X-ray pulses in the nanometer wavelength range are difficult to produce, but now a new, simpler method has been developed at TU Wien (Technical University of Vienna, ...

Climate change is leading to stronger flood disasters. TU Wien and Joanneum Research have developed a new model that shows ...

A research team from TU Graz, TU Wien and the Environment Agency Austria has developed a practical method to reliably ...

A project from TU Wien (Technical University of Vienna, Austria) has demonstrated how laser patterning can be used to create microvascular channels within microfluidic chips. The breakthrough, ...

A new technical paper titled “The van der Waals Gap: a Hidden Showstopper in Semiconductor Device Scaling” was published by researchers at TU Wien. Abstract “Continued miniaturization of transistors ...

It is an exotic phenomenon that nobody was able to explain for years: when energy is supplied to a thin layer of the material tungsten diselenide, it begins to glow in a highly unusual fashion. In ...

Only one side of a silver crystal has the right structure to trigger ice formation, revealing how these particles help clouds ...

The novel material graphene makes faster electronics possible. Scientists have developed light detectors made of graphene and analyzed their astonishing properties. High hopes are pinned on the new ...

Two-dimensional materials such as graphene, which consist of only one or a few atomic layers, have been a very promising aspect of materials science over recent years. They demonstrate remarkable ...