Producing green hydrogen through the exposure of nanomaterials to sunlight
A research team from INRS has joined forces with French researchers from ICPEES to pave the way towards the production ...
Tag: Atomic Physics
Clocking electron movements inside an atom
New technique delivers resolution improvement in ultrafast processesCredit: Daniel Haynes / Jörg Harms An international consortium of scientists, initiated by ...
Scientists streamline process for controlling spin dynamics
Researchers discovered the thickness of magnetic materials can act as a "knob" for fine-tuning spin dynamics, a key property for ...
Transition metal ‘cocktail’ helps make brand new superconductors
Concept of high entropy alloys provides a discovery platform for new superconductorsCredit: Tokyo Metropolitan University Tokyo, Japan - Researchers from ...
Machine-learning models of matter beyond interatomic potentials
Credit: @Michele Ceriotti Combining electronic structure calculations and machine learning (ML) techniques has become a common approach in the atomistic ...
A high order for a low dimension
Novel crystal confines electrons to one dimension for spintronic applicationsCredit: © 2020 Kondo et al Spintronics refers to a suite ...
Stretching diamond for next-generation microelectronics
Credit: Dang Chaoqun / City University of Hong Kong Diamond is the hardest material in nature. But out of many ...
Electrons hop to it on twisted molecular wires
Scientists at Osaka University devise a method to improve the conductivity of molecular wires by intentionally adding periodic twists to ...
Atomic-scale nanowires can now be produced at scale
Scalable synthesis of transition metal chalcogenide nanowires for next-gen electronicsCredit: Copyright 2020 American Chemical Society (ACS) Tokyo, Japan - Researchers ...
New center for nuclear disarmament for Uppsala University
Swedish Government's assigned todayCredit: Mikael Wallerstedt Today, the Swedish Government decided to assign to Uppsala University the task of setting ...
TRIUMF’s CANREB facility marks first beam
Credit: Stu Shepherd Scientists and engineers at TRIUMF, Canada's particle accelerator centre, announced a major milestone for TRIUMF's Advanced Rare ...
Regulating off-centering distortion maximizes photoluminescence in halide perovskites
Credit: Xujie Lü In work published in the National Science Review (nwaa288), a team at HPSTAR led by Dr. Xujie ...
Researchers invent method to ‘sketch’ quantum devices with focused electrons
Technique is 10,000 faster than previous methods, and can create active nanostructured gates directly below two-dimensional materials such as grapheneCredit: ...
JILA’s bigger and better ‘tweezer clock’ is super stable
Credit: NIST JILA physicists have boosted the signal power of their atomic "tweezer clock" and measured its performance in part ...
Ultracold atoms reveal a new type of quantum magnetic behavior
The findings may help researchers design "spintronic" devices and novel magnetic materials.Credit: Courtesy of the researchers A new study illuminates ...
A new method for the functionalization of graphene
INRS professor Federico Rosei collaborated with an international research team to modify the properties of graphene for its use in ...
High-brightness source of coherent light spanning from the UV to THz
Credit: ©ICFO/L.Maidment, U. Elu & J. Biegert. Analytical optical methods are vital to our modern society as they permit the ...
‘Magic’ angle graphene and the creation of unexpected topological quantum states
Credit: Kevin Nuckolls, Department of Physics, Princeton University Electrons inhabit a strange and topsy-turvy world. These infinitesimally small particles have ...
When less is more: A single layer of atoms boosts the nonlinear generation of light
Credit: © Thomas Rögelsperger, University of Vienna In a new study an international research team led by the University of ...
Two, six, many
Heidelberg physicists observe the emergence of collective behaviourCredit: Jonas Ahlstedt / Lund University Bioimaging Centre (LBIC) Phase transitions describe dramatic ...
