A unique methodology to explore alternative interconnect metals for the Ångström era. About five years ago, imec researchers started to explore binary and ternary compounds for replacing Cu as future ...

Theoretical chemists have found how to synthesize the first binary compound of krypton and oxygen: a krypton oxide. It turns out that this exotic substance can be produced under extremely high ...

Elements in group 18 (formerly group 0) of the periodic table are “inert” no more. Until recently, helium, the “noblest” of the noble gases, was the last one not to have been made into a compound with ...