For advanced bonding schemes and panel operations, there is a high cost to discovering an interface issue late in the flow. Reliability improves when materials are specified as a system rather than as ...

Imagine trying to build a tower out of hundreds of very thin, slightly different sheets of material, where each sheet wants to bend or warp on its own. That’s essentially what researchers at imec and ...

In 2018, a discovery in materials science sent shock waves throughout the community. A team showed that stacking two layers of graphene—a honeycomb-like layer of carbon extracted from graphite—at a ...

Scientists have taken an important step towards understanding the interaction between layers of atomically thin materials arranged in stacks. They hope their research will speed up the discovery of ...

Over the last decade, there has been a surge in research concentrating on 2D materials other than graphene. Furthermore, by stacking different 2D materials, the attributes of 2D materials can be ...

The chip industry is pushing to quadruple the stack height of 3D NAND flash from 200 layers to 800 layers or more over the next few years, using the additional capacity will help to feed the unending ...

A material made by stacking 2D sheets of molybdenum disulfude is a strong thermal conductor in two dimensions but blocks heat transfer from layer to layer. The material conducts heat 900 times as well ...

Transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) semiconductors are special materials that have long fascinated researchers with their unique properties. For one, they are flat, one-atom-thick two-dimensional ...

Admittedly it’s a bit of a niche application, but if you need lots of flat 3D printed objects, one way to go about it is to print them in a stack and separate them somehow. An old(er) solution is to ...