The path of performance enhancement in organic semiconductors over the past 25 years is an inspiring example of the power of an interdisciplinary materials research effort bringing together organic chemists, materials scientists, device engineers, and physicists.
The scientists' cochlear devices use electrical stimuli to bypass such cells; they directly stimulate the main auditory nerve that conveys messages to the brain for processing as hearing.
On blogs where attacks have appeared, the researchers point out that many of the accusations, like The Sunday Times's assertion that the scientists implant devices in the brains of the sheep, are simply false.
For scientists building devices that would allow the paralyzed to interact with their environment (as well as those wishing to understand the workings of the brain), it's important to understand that using two virtual arms is a more complex proposition than using each arm separately and multiplying by two.
Quantum dot superlattices (QDSLs) have attracted a great deal of interest from both physical scientists and device researchers.
The ability to understand, control, and exploit the flow of electronic charge through single or small organized arrays of molecules represents an ultimate dream of physicists, chemists, materials scientists, and device engineers.
A review of the 50-year history of the Japanese crystal growth community can provide a good example of how science and technology, particularly in the field of crystal growth, can make significant progress when good co-operation and communication exists between fundamental scientists and device designers and engineers.
Two of the joint venture co-founders have departed the company in recent months — with both veteran crypto expert Jon Callas leaving to go to Apple, and former Geeksphone co-founder Javier Agüera, who became chief scientist of devices at Silent Circle, moving on to pastures new.
But other scientists say such devices could backfire, because manatees, when spooked, tend to leave shallow flats for deep water.
Earlier biologically inspired devices, scientists say, were mostly analog, single-purpose sensors that mimicked one function, like an electronic equivalent of a retina for sensing image data.
