{"title":"A universal quantum electrical standard is getting closer","authors":"Wilfrid Poirier, Sophie Djordjevic","doi":"10.1038/s41928-025-01442-x","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41928-025-01442-x","url":null,"abstract":"With the International System of Units now linked to only physical constants, the groundwork has been laid for the development of a universal quantum electrical standard in which the volt, the ohm and the ampere are all realized within a single experiment. Success would simplify the traceability of electrical measurements to the units.","PeriodicalId":19064,"journal":{"name":"Nature Electronics","volume":"8 8","pages":"632-634"},"PeriodicalIF":40.9,"publicationDate":"2025-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144900902","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An issue of standards","authors":"","doi":"10.1038/s41928-025-01453-8","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41928-025-01453-8","url":null,"abstract":"The development of a universal quantum electrical standard would help deliver a more accessible measurement system.","PeriodicalId":19064,"journal":{"name":"Nature Electronics","volume":"8 8","pages":"631-631"},"PeriodicalIF":40.9,"publicationDate":"2025-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.comhttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41928-025-01453-8.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144906083","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Gigahertz topological phononic circuits based on micrometre-scale unsuspended waveguide arrays","authors":"Xin-Biao Xu, Mourad Oudich, Yu Zeng, Ji-Zhe Zhang, Yuan-Hao Yang, Jia-Qi Wang, Weiting Wang, Luyan Sun, Guang-Can Guo, Yun Jing, Chang-Ling Zou","doi":"10.1038/s41928-025-01437-8","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41928-025-01437-8","url":null,"abstract":"The manipulation of gigahertz-frequency acoustic waves is of use in both classical and quantum applications. Topological phononics can provide robust acoustic control, but practical implementations are typically limited to low frequencies or lack scalability. Here we report reconfigurable topological phononic circuits that operate at 1.5 GHz. The approach is based on micrometre-scale unsuspended waveguides that tightly confine the acoustic waves. We use a custom-built high-resolution scanning optical vibrometer. Our visualization of the spatial evolution of topological edge states and robust Thouless pumping is in agreement with our theoretical analysis. We also develop a topological phononic Mach–Zehnder interferometer that can rapidly switch topological phonon transmission paths to provide acoustic intensity modulation with a 3 dB bandwidth of 0.65 kHz. Our work provides a reconfigurable, compact and scalable topological phononic chip that works at microwave frequencies. Reconfigurable topological phononic circuits that are based on micrometre-scale unsuspended waveguides and operate at 1.5 GHz can be used to create a topological phononic Mach–Zehnder interferometer that rapidly switches topological phonon transmission paths.","PeriodicalId":19064,"journal":{"name":"Nature Electronics","volume":"8 8","pages":"689-697"},"PeriodicalIF":40.9,"publicationDate":"2025-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144900904","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jun Ji, Zichen Xi, Joseph G. Thomas, Bernadeta R. Srijanto, Ivan I. Kravchenko, Pranay Baikadi, Minglei Sun, William G. Vandenberghe, Ming Jin, Yizheng Zhu, Wenjie Xiong, Linbo Shao
{"title":"Synthetic-domain computing and neural networks using lithium niobate integrated nonlinear phononics","authors":"Jun Ji, Zichen Xi, Joseph G. Thomas, Bernadeta R. Srijanto, Ivan I. Kravchenko, Pranay Baikadi, Minglei Sun, William G. Vandenberghe, Ming Jin, Yizheng Zhu, Wenjie Xiong, Linbo Shao","doi":"10.1038/s41928-025-01436-9","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41928-025-01436-9","url":null,"abstract":"Analogue computing uses the physical behaviours of devices to provide energy-efficient arithmetic operations. However, scaling up analogue computing platforms by simply increasing the number of devices leads to challenges such as device-to-device variation. Here we report scalable analogue computing and neural networks in the synthetic frequency domain using an integrated nonlinear phononic platform on lithium niobate. This synthetic-domain computing is robust to device variations, as vectors and matrices are concurrently encoded at different frequencies within a single device, achieving a high throughput per area. Leveraging inherent nonlinearities, our device-aware neural network can perform a four-class classification task with an accuracy of 98.2%. The nonlinear phononic computing hardware also maintains consistent performance over a wide operational temperature range (characterized up to 192 °C). Our synthetic-domain computing combines single-device parallelism, inherent nonlinearity and environmental stability, and could be of use in edge computing applications in which power efficiency and environmental resilience are crucial. By encoding vectors and matrices at different frequencies within a single device, a device-aware neural network based on lithium niobate integrated nonlinear phononics can be created that can perform a four-class classification task with an accuracy of 98.2%.","PeriodicalId":19064,"journal":{"name":"Nature Electronics","volume":"8 8","pages":"698-708"},"PeriodicalIF":40.9,"publicationDate":"2025-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144900905","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jing Xu, Chrystal Duan, Xiao Wan, Ziyuan Che, Xun Zhao, Yihao Zhou, Yang Song, Junyi Yin, Trinny Tat, Song Li, Jun Chen
{"title":"A soft magnetoelastic sensor to decode levels of fatigue","authors":"Jing Xu, Chrystal Duan, Xiao Wan, Ziyuan Che, Xun Zhao, Yihao Zhou, Yang Song, Junyi Yin, Trinny Tat, Song Li, Jun Chen","doi":"10.1038/s41928-025-01418-x","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41928-025-01418-x","url":null,"abstract":"Fatigue is a complex condition characterized by a decline in a person’s mental or physical performance. Methods to gauge fatigue include self-reported questionnaires, electroencephalography and camera-based technologies. However, these methods are typically restricted to laboratory settings, which limits their wider accessibility. Here we report a soft on-eyelid magnetoelastic sensor that can capture eye-blink parameters in real time and quantitatively decode fatigue levels. The sensor, which works in a self-powered manner, comprises a magnetomechanical coupling layer formed from a silicone rubber matrix embedded with micromagnets and a conductive gold coil patterned onto a thin thermoplastic elastomer layer. This design allows the conversion of eye movements into high-fidelity electrical signals. The sensor exhibits a Young’s modulus of 200 kPa, a stretchability of up to 530% and a pressure sensitivity of 0.2 µA kPa−1. Its thin membrane structure adheres conformally to human upper eyelid tissue and maintains intimate contact during diverse eye movements. When combined with a one-dimensional convolutional neural network and data-processing techniques, the sensor can recognize subtle eye movements and categorize fatigue levels with an accuracy of 96.4% based on six eye-blink parameters. An on-eyelid soft sensor that tracks eye movements based on the magnetoelastic effect can be used to continuously monitor and quantitatively assess levels of fatigue.","PeriodicalId":19064,"journal":{"name":"Nature Electronics","volume":"8 8","pages":"709-720"},"PeriodicalIF":40.9,"publicationDate":"2025-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144901826","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fatigue measurement via a wearable on-eyelid magnetoelastic sensor","authors":"","doi":"10.1038/s41928-025-01419-w","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41928-025-01419-w","url":null,"abstract":"An ultrathin, ultrasoft and ultrastretchable magnetoelastic on-eyelid sensor is developed to track eye movements. Decoding the eye blinking signals collected from this sensor, a one-dimensional convolutional neural network combined with an unsupervised clustering model classifies the level of cognitive fatigue with an accuracy of 96.4%.","PeriodicalId":19064,"journal":{"name":"Nature Electronics","volume":"8 8","pages":"645-646"},"PeriodicalIF":40.9,"publicationDate":"2025-08-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144901835","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Interacting with computers through a wristband","authors":"Yan Huang","doi":"10.1038/s41928-025-01451-w","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41928-025-01451-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19064,"journal":{"name":"Nature Electronics","volume":"8 8","pages":"640-640"},"PeriodicalIF":40.9,"publicationDate":"2025-08-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144901830","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bioinspired image recognition in neural networks","authors":"","doi":"10.1038/s41928-025-01438-7","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41928-025-01438-7","url":null,"abstract":"Although neuromorphic hardware is key to mimicking brain-like information processing, existing systems have much higher energy consumption than biological systems. A molybdenum disulfide-based neuron module has been developed that emulates the intrinsic plasticity of low-power biological neural systems and exhibits visual adaptation similar to the human visual system.","PeriodicalId":19064,"journal":{"name":"Nature Electronics","volume":"8 8","pages":"643-644"},"PeriodicalIF":40.9,"publicationDate":"2025-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144839992","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Bala Govind, Maxwell G. Anderson, Fan O. Wu, Peter L. McMahon, Alyssa Apsel
{"title":"An integrated microwave neural network for broadband computation and communication","authors":"Bala Govind, Maxwell G. Anderson, Fan O. Wu, Peter L. McMahon, Alyssa Apsel","doi":"10.1038/s41928-025-01422-1","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41928-025-01422-1","url":null,"abstract":"The development of high-bandwidth applications, including multi-gigabit communication and radar imaging, demands faster processing. However, in the microwave regime, where frequencies exceed clock rates, sampling and computation become challenging. Here we report an integrated microwave neural network for broadband computation and communication. Our microwave neural network operates across tens of gigahertz but is reprogrammed with slow megabits per second control bitstreams. By exploiting strong nonlinearity in coupled microwave oscillations, it expresses its computation in a narrower spectrum, enabling easy read-out. The system searches bit sequences in multi-gigabits per second data and emulates digital functions without custom circuits. It accelerates radio-frequency machine learning by classifying encoding schemes and detecting frequency shifts to track flight trajectories from radar. The microwave neural network is fabricated with standard complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor technology. It occupies a sub-wavelength footprint of 0.088 mm2 on chip and has a sub-200-mW power consumption, supporting integration in a general-purpose analogue processor. A low-power microwave neural network fabricated using complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor technology can perform broadband computations using a slow control mechanism.","PeriodicalId":19064,"journal":{"name":"Nature Electronics","volume":"8 8","pages":"738-750"},"PeriodicalIF":40.9,"publicationDate":"2025-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144839997","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}