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Researchers at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and NY Creates have launched a U.S. Department of Energy-funded pilot program designed to accelerate development of next-generation semiconductor chips. The initiative will connect chip manufacturers with advanced research facilities, scientific expertise, and specialized equipment at the national laboratories to address critical industry challenges in semiconductor manufacturing, particularly in extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography and materials characterization. The project could have significant implications for technology, economic competitiveness, and national security. Advances in EUV lithography are expected to enable smaller, faster, and more energy-efficient semiconductor chips that power emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, high-performance computing, quantum systems, advanced communications, and next-generation consumer electronics.

MIT researchers developed a new way to control how nanoparticles come together to create high-performing materials for photonics, chemical catalysis, medicine, agriculture, and more.

ORNL’s newly installed Thermo Scientific Spectra Ultra is among the most advanced aberration corrected scanning transmission electron microscopes in the national laboratory system. The instrument combines atomic-scale imaging, high-speed spectroscopy and Super Intelligence (SI)-enabled workflows to accelerate materials research. The capability will support the applied science development of advanced materials that strengthen U.S. manufacturing, energy technologies and economic competitiveness.

Boise State joins effort to harness AI for precipitation forecasting, grid reliability

Perovskites, manufactured crystals used in solar cells, have long promised to boost solar power, but internal defects have blunted their potential. Now, researchers at Princeton Engineering have corrected the defects by adding a novel combination of chemicals during fabrication.