In the year 2020, Jerry the average American worker, yawns and wakes up to a dark room as his alarm goes off.  Sitting up in bed, he hits a switch on the wall by his bed adjusting the opacity of his windows, to let in more light.  As he walks to the bathroom, he taps […]

Electrical and Computer Engineering Graduate Student Hao-Chih Yuan holds a sample of a semiconductor film on plastic. (Large image)

New thin-film semiconductor techniques invented by UW-Madison engineers promise to add sensing, computing and imaging capability to an amazing array of materials.
Historically, the semiconductor industry has relied on flat, two-dimensional chips upon which to […]