Congratulations to Michelle Katz of the University of Washington (UW) on being selected as the 2025 Pacific Northwest Section Electrochemistry Student Award recipient. The award recognizes Michelle’s contributions to developing new materials and manufacturing strategies to fabricate three-dimensional lithium ion batteries (LIBs). Thermo Fisher Scientific sponsors the award. (more…)
The researchers discovered that two flat semiconductor materials can be connected edge-to-edge with crystalline perfection.
Credit: University of Washington
Current member of ECS, Xiaodong Xu, has made a huge contribution to the field of electrochemical science with the creation of atomically seamless, thinnest-possible semiconductor junctions.
Xu, along with the scientists at the University of Washington, believe their semiconductor – coming in at only three atoms thick – is the most slender possible, a new class of nanoscale materials.
This from the University of Washington:
The University of Washington researchers have demonstrated that two of these single-layer semiconductor materials can be connected in an atomically seamless fashion known as a heterojunction. This result could be the basis for next-generation flexible and transparent computing, better light-emitting diodes, or LEDs, and solar technologies.
“Our experimental demonstration of such junctions between two-dimensional materials should enable new kinds of transistors, LEDs, nanolasers, and solar cells to be developed for highly integrated electronic and optical circuits within a single atomic plane,” Xu said.
The research was published online this week in Nature Materials.
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