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Berkeley Lab’s Big Science Stories of 2025

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Atomic Neighborhoods in Semiconductors Provide New Avenue for Designing Microelectronics

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Early Research Demonstrated Novel Approach to Next-Generation Transistor Design

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Science Power-up: The Most Exciting Thing in Microelectronics

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Six Scientific Advances Made Possible by Berkeley Lab’s Molecular Foundry

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Bringing Discoveries to Light: Six Ways the Advanced Light Source Is Accelerating Technology Breakthroughs for Society

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Expert Interview: Bruno La Fontaine on Chip Manufacturing Advances at the ALS

Bruno La Fontaine, Director of the Center for X-ray Optics (CXRO), speaks on how the CXRO supports the microchip industry.

Compute This: Six Ways Berkeley Lab is Shaping the Future of Microelectronics

Two researchers donning personal protective equipment inspect a mirror chamber used to create custom and dynamic illumination patterns for testing the limits of semiconductor materials.

New Photon-Avalanching Nanoparticles Could Enable Next-Generation Optical Computers

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A New Approach to Efficient Optoelectronics, Inspired by the Human Eye

A recipe for energy efficiency: an optical sensor that also processes data. The transparent dome represents interactions between photons (red and green) and the nanoscale elements on the substrate. Carbon nanotubes with quantum dots (small spheres) are shown connected to CMOS circuitry below.

Scientists Capture Images of Electron Molecular Crystals

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Researchers Succeed in Taking 3D X-ray Images of a Skyrmion

A rendering in paraview of the product of the 3D reconstruction. (Credit: David Raftrey)