Nature Electronics

Nature Electronics, Published online: 21 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41928-026-01649-6 An acoustic patch for gastric surgery

Nature Electronics, Published online: 21 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41928-026-01648-7 A robot that’s hard to love

Nature Electronics, Published online: 20 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41928-026-01637-w Using an industry-compatible and tunable oxygen-incorporated technique to heal defect states, p-type monolayer tungsten diselenide transistors can be created with a hole mobility of 137 cm2 V−1 s−1 and a contact resistance of approximately 560 Ω µm at room temperature.

Nature Electronics, Published online: 20 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41928-026-01639-8 A photolithographic fabrication process can be used to create soft and stretchy organic electrochemical transistor arrays that have a density up to 10,000 devices per square centimetre, and can perform edge computing tasks in wearable devices and soft robots.

Nature Electronics, Published online: 20 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41928-026-01616-1 A three-dimensional micro-fabricated neural interface device can provide volumetric electrical stimulation and recording within biological neural networks.

Nature Electronics, Published online: 19 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41928-026-01634-z Patterned and scalable two-dimensional metal–semiconductor heterostructures formed between niobium disulfide and molybdenum disulfide can be created using an in situ sulfurization process and used to make field-effect transistors and non-volatile memory devices.

Nature Electronics, Published online: 19 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41928-026-01633-0 A scalable patterning method can create atomically sharp two-dimensional metal–semiconductor junctions, providing functional electrical contacts for logic-in-memory computing.

Nature Electronics, Published online: 13 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41928-026-01621-4 Interfaces are the main bottleneck for electrical and thermal transport through materials. Now, inspired by ancient carpentry joints, mechanical metainterfaces are developed that increase electrical transport and heat dissipation, with potential applications in electronics and power systems.

Nature Electronics, Published online: 13 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41928-026-01640-1 A core–shell cable that combines extreme elasticity with robust electrical performance can be used to bridge a range of terminal electronics including soft, rigid and hybrid electronic modules.

Nature Electronics, Published online: 12 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41928-026-01627-y By using chaotic vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers as entropy sources for key generation, a security system based on physical unclonable functions can be created that offers response rates above 500 Gbps with an energy consumption below 1 pJ per bit per laser emitter.

Nature Electronics, Published online: 12 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41928-026-01615-2 A metallic superconductor–normal-conductor–superconductor sensor can be used to measure the energy of 1-μs-long 8.4-GHz microwave pulses with a full-width at half-maximum energy resolution finer than 0.95 ± 0.02 zJ, corresponding to 170 photons at 8.4 GHz.

Nature Electronics, Published online: 12 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41928-026-01632-1 An electrothermal co-design strategy can be used to make flexible transistors based on aligned carbon nanotube arrays with current-gain cut-off frequencies of 152 GHz and power-gain cut-off frequencies of 102 GHz.

Nature Electronics, Published online: 06 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41928-026-01612-5 A programmable topological platform is developed that uses eight positive–intrinsic–negative (PIN) diodes to dynamically control plasmonic skyrmions. This device achieves robust wireless communications in noisy environments and, when combined with a convolutional neural network, recognizes objects with 98.33% accura…

Nature Electronics, Published online: 05 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41928-026-01622-3 Metainterfaces that have repetitive surface unit structures, and are inspired by the mortise–tenon and finger-joint structures used in traditional woodworking, can be used to create functional interfaces with enhanced electronic and thermal transport.

Nature Electronics, Published online: 05 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41928-026-01620-5 By tuning the twist angle at its interfaces, a trilayer van der Waals heterostructure of molybdenum disulfide/molybdenum sulfide selenide/tungsten diselenide can offer an asymmetric thermal transport for use in the thermal management of electronic devices.

Nature Electronics, Published online: 04 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41928-026-01623-2 This Review explores parity–time (PT) symmetry and exceptional points in electronic circuits, considering the fundamental principles and implementations of PT symmetry in electronics and highlighting the key applications of such systems, including telemetry, sensing, hardware encryption and wireless power transfer.

Nature Electronics, Published online: 04 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41928-026-01625-0 Bioelectronics based on a three-dimensional topological interpenetrating architecture reinforced with covalent chemical anchoring can be used for long-term electrophysiological recording, electrical stimulation and electrochemical sensing in body locations subjected to constant movement.

Nature Electronics, Published online: 04 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41928-026-01619-y A three-dimensional topological interpenetrating architecture can be used to reinforce the interfaces of bioelectronic devices, providing chronically stable in vivo signal recording and stimulation.

Nature Electronics, Published online: 30 April 2026; doi:10.1038/s41928-026-01614-3 The ohm has been the unit of electric resistance for more than 150 years, but what we exactly mean by ‘a resistance of x ohm’ has evolved in terms of both meaning and magnitude during that time. Its realization has changed from mercury columns to mechanical constructs, and is now linked to immutable constants and …

Nature Electronics, Published online: 30 April 2026; doi:10.1038/s41928-026-01617-0 A photodiode that is based on silver bismuth sulfide offering a reversible symmetry-to-asymmetry transition via the localized electrochemical reduction of silver ions can be used for both transmissive imaging and in-sensor processing.