A study by the UC3M researches the limits of topological insulators using sound waves
Credit: UC3M In these kinds structures, sound signals remain robust and insensitive to noise caused by impurities and defects in ...
Tag: Atomic/Molecular/Particle Physics
Scientists levitate particles with sound to find out how they cluster together
Credit: Melody Lim Scientists from the University of Chicago and the University of Bath used sound waves to levitate particles, ...
Magnonic devices can replace electronics without much noise
Magnonic devices of the future could use low power to avoid performance lossesCredit: Balandin Lab at UC Riverside Electronic devices ...
How to catch a magnetic monopole in the act
Berkeley Lab-led study could lead to smaller memory devices, microelectronics, and spintronicsCredit: Farhan/Berkeley Lab A research team led by the ...
Optical clocks started the calibration of the international atomic time
Credit: National Institute of Information and Communications Technology Optical clocks of the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT, ...
Light pulses provide a new route to enhance superconductivity
Credit: RIKEN Materials known as Mott insulators are odd things. Under normal electron band theory they ought to conduct electricity, ...
ReactWell licenses ORNL catalyst for energy conversion applications
Credit: © 2016 Dr. Yang Song, et. al. Published by Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA. OAK RIDGE, Tenn., March ...
Organic electronics: Scientists develop a high-performance unipolar n-type thin-film transistor
-Credit: Tsuyoshi Michinobu, Yang Wang Researchers at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) report a unipolar n-type transistor with a ...
Hybrid material may outperform graphene in several applications
A structure comprising a molybdenum disulfide monolayer on an azobenzene substrate could be used to build a highly compactable and ...
Hall effect becomes viscous in graphene
Researchers at the University of Manchester in the UK have discovered that electrons in graphene act like a very unique ...
A trap for positrons
Interview with Dr. Eve Stenson on the delicate antiparticles of electronsCredit: Axel Griesch / IPP For the first time, scientists ...
Good news for future tech: Exotic ‘topological’ materials are surprisingly common
A new online catalog makes it easy to predict topological behaviors in materialsCredit: Maia G. Vergniory, Luis Elcoro, Claudia Felser, ...
New study reveals when a superconductor truly becomes super
Scientists confirm existence of 'quantum critical point' in copper-oxide-based superconductors and believe it could be the moment when superconductivity occursCredit: ...
Graphite offers up new quantum surprise
University of Manchester researchers have observed an unusual quantum Hall effect in the old three-dimensional material Researchers at The University ...
Laser ‘drill’ sets a new world record in laser-driven electron acceleration
Scientists working at Berkeley Lab's BELLA Center nearly double their previous record set in 2014Credit: Carlo Benedetti/Berkeley Lab Combining a ...
Physicists from ITMO University experimentally investigated new class of resonators
The physicists from ITMO University, Ioffe Institute and the Australian National University examined a new mechanism of realization of high-quality ...
Magnetization reversal achieved at room temperature using only an electric field
Credit: Keisuke Shimizu, Masaki Azuma, Tokyo Institute of Technology Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology achieved magnetization reversal in cobalt-substituted ...
JILA researchers make coldest quantum gas of molecules
Credit: Steven Burrows/JILA JILA researchers have made a long-lived, record-cold gas of molecules that follow the wave patterns of quantum ...
NIST physicists ‘flash-freeze’ crystal of 150 ions
Credit: Jordan/NIST Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have "flash-frozen" a flat crystal of 150 beryllium ...
‘Butterfly-shaped’ palladium subnano cluster built in 3-D
Credit: 2019 Yusuke Sunada, Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo Tokyo - Miniaturization is the watchword of progress. ...
