Nature Electronics

Nature Electronics, Published online: 11 September 2026; doi:10.1038/s41928-026-01718-w An embroidered sensor for prosthetic monitoring

Nature Electronics, Published online: 10 September 2026; doi:10.1038/s41928-026-01688-z A multiphasic-gel-based ion transporter system with cascaded-heterointerface ion traps can offer multistate ionic neuromorphic processing with energy consumption as low as 0.61 pJ per spike.

Nature Electronics, Published online: 10 September 2026; doi:10.1038/s41928-026-01684-3 Ions in a multiphasic gel can exhibit complex cross-interface dynamics that can be used for neuromorphic processing.

Nature Electronics, Published online: 08 September 2026; doi:10.1038/s41928-026-01703-3 A tiny magnetic film placed atop a microwave circuit can be used to create a compact source of correlated microwave signals that operates at room temperature.

Nature Electronics, Published online: 08 September 2026; doi:10.1038/s41928-026-01699-w A nanoplasma pulse generator that can produce current pulses with widths down to 6.4 ps and amplitudes exceeding 100 V can control field-free spin–orbit torque magnetization switching in magnetic heterostructures.

Nature Electronics, Published online: 07 September 2026; doi:10.1038/s41928-026-01704-2 Using five vertically stacked van der Waals layers, a tunnel-junction selector can be created that exhibits a nonlinearity above 107, an endurance of more than 1012 cycles, a switching speed of less than 20 ns, minimal temperature dependence and low device-to-device variability.

Nature Electronics, Published online: 04 September 2026; doi:10.1038/s41928-026-01702-4 A layer of gallium oxide that is only a half-unit-cell thick can be converted via strain engineering into a zincblende phase with switchable ferroelectricity and a coercive voltage below 1 V.

Nature Electronics, Published online: 04 September 2026; doi:10.1038/s41928-026-01701-5 By driving a magnetic film with several microwave tones, a magnonic frequency comb with thousands of spin-wave comb lines can be created, providing a potential route to chip-scale microwave computing.

Nature Electronics, Published online: 04 September 2026; doi:10.1038/s41928-026-01693-2 Oxide-based ferroelectric materials are expected to have a key role in the future of semiconductor devices. Tim Böscke, Ulrich Böttger and Uwe Schroeder recount how ferroelectricity in hafnium oxide thin films was first discovered.

Nature Electronics, Published online: 01 September 2026; doi:10.1038/s41928-026-01694-1 When β-Ga2O3 is thinned to the half-unit-cell limit, it can undergo a strain-induced phase transition that leads to intrinsic ferroelectricity with a polarization switching voltage of 0.8 V, meeting the voltage-scaling requirements of complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor technology.

Nature Electronics, Published online: 28 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41928-026-01691-4 Polarization fields in III-nitride heterostructures can be used to form intrinsically charge-balanced superjunctions without intentional doping, allowing Schottky barrier diodes and transistors on gallium-nitride-on-silicon substrates to be created that exhibit high breakdown voltages.

Nature Electronics, Published online: 21 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41928-026-01697-y The field of robotics continues to advance rapidly, creating new applications for the technology and new challenges for its successful deployment.

Nature Electronics, Published online: 20 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41928-026-01686-1 A multi-tone excitation technique can be used to generate octave-spanning magnonic frequency combs with thousands of lines in continuous yttrium iron garnet thin films.

Nature Electronics, Published online: 19 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41928-026-01689-y A hybrid magnon–photon platform based on a printed-circuit-board microstrip resonator coupled to an yttrium iron garnet film can split a microwave photon into a pair of magnon polaritons with distinct frequencies and strong intermode correlations.

Nature Electronics, Published online: 19 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41928-026-01682-5 A wireless stimulation platform that is based on a bioresorbable phototransistor can provide precise, programmable and multi-site electrotherapy through tissue-penetrating optical modulation.

Nature Electronics, Published online: 19 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41928-026-01681-6 This Review examines optical chip-to-chip interconnects and co-packaged optics for high-performance computing applications, considering key functional domains, the performance of different integration strategies and the critical challenges to widespread adoption.

Nature Electronics, Published online: 18 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41928-026-01685-2 An amorphous carbon film with a dielectric constant of 1.35 can act as a robust ion-diffusion barrier, even at a thickness of 0.8 nm.

Nature Electronics, Published online: 17 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41928-026-01696-z A monolithic microwave integrated chip with hexagonal boron nitride switches

Nature Electronics, Published online: 14 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41928-026-01695-0 Self-assembled contacts for molecules

Nature Electronics, Published online: 12 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41928-026-01680-7 The emergence of two-dimensional ferroelectrics has challenged established theories of ferroelectricity and offered routes to novel devices. However, distinguishing ferroelectric behaviour from artefacts remains an experimental challenge.