HAWC: Are photons of extreme energies coming from the Galaxy’s largest accelerator?
Credit: Source: HAWC For years, in the vastness of our galaxy, astrophysicists have been tracking down pevatrons - natural accelerators ...
Tag: Atomic/Molecular/Particle Physics
Size matters when it comes to atomic properties
Credit: Neuroncollective, Daniel Spacek, Pavel Travnicek A study from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, has yielded new answers to fundamental ...
Missing baryons found in far-out reaches of galactic halos
Berkeley Lab physicists play key role in studies that solve a cosmological mysteryCredit: NASA Researchers have channeled the universe's earliest ...
‘We marry disorder with order’
Physicists able to determine properties of mesoporous materials more preciselyCredit: Photo: Swen Reichhold, Leipzig University He and his research group ...
Ultrafast intra-atom motion tracked using synchrotron radiation
Credit: NINS/IMS Scientists in Japan have observed, and interfered with, the ultrafast motion of electron movement inside of a Xenon ...
Solar cells: Losses made visible on the nanoscale
Using a conductive atomic force microscope, they scanned the solar cell surfaces and detected tiny, nanometre-sized channels for the detrimental ...
Catching electrons in action in an antiferromagnetic nanowire
Credit: Ranjit Pati/Michigan Tech The electron is one of the fundamental particles in nature we read about in school. Its ...
A promising breakthrough for a better design of electronic materials
A deeper understanding of molecular vibrations can increase electron velocity in semiconductor materialsCredit: Christian Fleury (INRS) Finding the best materials ...
Discovery of ‘knock-on chemistry’ opens new frontier in reaction dynamics
New experimental findings cast in doubt 90-year-old theoretical model of the transition state in chemical reactionsCredit: Illustration: Lydie Leung TORONTO, ...
Twisting, flexible crystals key to solar energy production
Researchers show how shapes and movements of halide perovskites create desirable renewable energy propertiesCredit: ORNL/Jill Hemman DURHAM, N.C. -- Researchers ...
Sweden’s quantum computer project shifts up a gear
Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation is almost doubling the annual budget of the research initiative Wallenberg Centre for Quantum Technology, ...
Remote control for quantum emitters
Novel approach could become a asset in quantum computers and quantum simulationCredit: University of Innsbruck In order to exploit the ...
New perovskite LED emits a circularly polarized glow
Credit: Adapted from: Kim, Y.H. et. al., Science (2021) Light-emitting diodes (LEDs) have revolutionized the displays industry. LEDs use electric ...
Shutting the nano-gate
Researchers at Osaka University create voltage-controlled nanopores that can trap particles as they try to pass through, which may lead ...