Reading Steve Leibson’s comment on the relatively recent use of crystals for electronics reference frequencies made me remember my lab partner at UC Irvine in the 70s, who was an amazing ham guy, ...

A range of new crystals and crystal oscillators supports Texas Instruments' 1394b FireWire products, such as the TI TSB41BA3 device. The crystals and crystal oscillators have a fundamental frequency ...

The usage of fans and liquid cooling to keep our devices cool enough to operate may one day vanish, thanks to a crystal invented to replace these systems. According to researchers from the University ...

Scientists have shown that twisting a crystal at the nanoscale can turn it into a tiny, reversible diode, hinting at a new era of shape-engineered electronics.

Giving us further hope for a future without silicon circuitry, researchers have shown that transparent, photoconductive crystals can become conductors in when exposed to light. So much so in fact, ...

I always look at boring old USB drives and ask, “Why can’t these be jewel-encrusted?” Ditto for my run-of-the-mill earbuds, which seem to lack some kind of large embedded crystal. Believe it or not, ...

Researchers polished single-crystal diamond to near-atomic smoothness without damaging it. This will improve the performance and sustainability of future electronics. Silicon has been the workhorse of ...

Parades dancing through the streets are common during celebrations like Mardi Gras. And now, it may become more common in electronics like your smart phone too, thanks to newly published research from ...

Researchers have found that a novel metallic crystal displays unusual electronic behavior on its surface, thanks to the crystal's unique atomic structure. Their findings open up the possibility of ...