Nature Electronics

Nature Electronics, Published online: 19 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41928-026-01664-7 Parallel DNA synthesis is key to high-throughput synthetic biology and diagnostics, and potentially to DNA data storage, but has proved challenging under mild conditions. Now, a silicon chip is developed that enables the parallel enzymatic synthesis of 64 distinct DNA sequences in water through spatially programmed…

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Nature Electronics, Published online: 17 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41928-026-01652-x Assessing the carbon emissions of an electronic device from raw material extraction to disposal requires time-intensive data collection for each component. Now, artificial intelligence agents autonomously generate life-cycle inventories for electronic devices in under a minute and estimate carbon emissions with les…

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Nature Electronics, Published online: 17 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41928-026-01654-9 The state of a foundry-fabricated spin qubit unit cell, which is composed of two electron spins with a controllable exchange interaction, can be read out in a single shot using gate reflectometry.

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Nature Electronics, Published online: 17 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41928-026-01662-9 An array of 256 ring-electrode pairs fabricated on a complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor integrated circuit that can control local acidity and induce parallel enzymatic DNA synthesis can be used to encode a 169-byte text using DNA as a data storage medium.

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Nature Electronics, Published online: 16 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41928-026-01660-x A one-pixel device that is made of layers of twisted dichroic materials and ring-grating-like electrodes—and is integrated on the tip of an optical fibre—can be used to simultaneously resolve the mode, polarization, wavelength and intensity of input light in one-shot measurements.

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Nature Electronics, Published online: 16 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41928-026-01655-8 Using a bioresorbable silicon phototransistor to optically modulate current flows in electrical circuits, a wirelessly powered stimulation system can be created that offers programmable control over stimulation waveforms with tissue-penetrating near-infrared light.

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Nature Electronics, Published online: 15 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41928-026-01651-y By breaking the out-of-plane symmetry of a Ruddlesden–Popper thin film, a low-loss and tunable microwave dielectric can be created that is compatible with an out-of-plane parallel-plate varactor design.

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Nature Electronics, Published online: 15 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41928-026-01643-y An ingestible device that integrates a low-power integrated circuit, an antenna for wireless backscatter communication and a coin-cell battery measures just 6 mm in diameter and 4 mm in height, and can provide internal temperature sensing in swine models under diverse physiological and pathophysiological conditions.

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Nature Electronics, Published online: 12 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41928-026-01653-w A multimodal multi-agent artificial intelligence system that emulates the collaborative process between life-cycle assessment professionals and stakeholders (such as product managers and engineers) can calculate the carbon footprint of electronic devices, performing data collection tasks that can take weeks or mont…

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Nature Electronics, Published online: 12 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41928-026-01638-9 A matrix representation in which any target matrix is decomposed into the product of two adjustable submatrices allows analogue in-memory computing systems to be immune to hardware faults and increase density.

Nature Electronics, Published online: 10 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41928-026-01647-8 Using a fast convergence phase-retrieval algorithm to manipulate wavefront intensities at each harmonic, a programmable metasurface with 6,144 elements can generate 62 holographic images simultaneously.

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Nature Electronics, Published online: 09 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41928-026-01646-9 An in-hardware signal-folding scheme, which can be applied to one-transistor–one-resistor molybdenum disulfide arrays, can simultaneously achieve high weight precision and energy efficiency.

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Nature Electronics, Published online: 04 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41928-026-01636-x The carrier density of a charge-density-wave condensate can be directly and strongly modulated by electrical gating in orthorhombic tantalum trisulfide nanowires.

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Nature Electronics, Published online: 29 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41928-026-01657-6 Electronic circuits operated at exceptional points could be used to create powerful sensors, but challenges — particularly those related to noise — remain to be addressed.

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Nature Electronics, Published online: 28 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41928-026-01610-7 A dry multielectrode array can be used to visualize propagating electrical signals in plants with high-curvature tissues.

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