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Siloton’s retinal scanning system, illustrating how it will be used in the home reduce preventable blindness

Successful trial for sight loss prevention technology

The chip bearing the image of ‘the world’s smallest violin’ is positioned under a microscope. The intricate structure is only visible at high magnification

Nanotechnology used to create ‘world’s smallest violin’

A new chip-scale laser can conduct extremely fast and accurate measurements by very precisely changing its colour across a broad spectrum of light at very fast rates

Penny-sized laser could transform LiDAR and physics

The glass fibres are woven through the fabric at regular intervals (left). A transmitter (T) passes acoustic waves through the glass fibres, while the receiver (R) measures the waves at the other end. Integration of SonoTextiles for creating smart T-shirts (right)

SonoTextiles turn fabrics into smart sensors

MMTs separate charge injection from conduction

Multimodal transistors enable brighter display screens

RMIT PhD student and study first author Thiha Aung inspects the team's neuromorphic vision device

Neuromorphic device mimics human brain

The e-skin was able to capture muscle activity data during exercise

Self-healing e-skin maps biosignals

Next-gen devices could be possible with temperature-stable bismuth

Wheelchair user wearing VR googles holding a controller leaning to avoid hazards in the VR game, Beat Saber

MotionBlocks offers accessibility to VR games

Prototype models available today are a long way from achieving lofty goals

Comment: Why quantum computing must prioritise scalability

Sheffield is one of the UK's leading universities for semiconductor research and hosts the National Epitaxy Facility where the new MBE system will be based

UK invests £7m in AI-driven semiconductor research

According to charity Sense, almost 24,000 deafblind people in the UK are aged 0-19 years old, many of whom were born with a condition that caused the disability since birth

Smart textile gloves enable deafblind people to understand live conversations