New strategy to ‘buffer’ climate change: developing cheaper, eco-friendly solar cells
New study develops a novel eco-friendly buffer for solar panels, which could tip the scale in the renewable energy transitionCredit: ...
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Sorting out viruses with machine learning
Scientists at Osaka University develop a label-free method for identifying respiratory viruses based on changes in electrical current when they ...
USask physicist teams up with U.K. partners in world-first program of quantum technologies
Credit: USask As part of a new U.K.-Canada collaboration, a University of Saskatchewan quantum physics team will develop a highly ...
New kind of superconductivity discovered
Researchers demonstrate a superconductor previously thought impossibleCredit: © 2020 Okazaki et al. Superconductivity is a phenomenon where an electric circuit ...
A new candidate material for quantum spin liquids
Credit: Péter Szirmai In 1973, physicist and later Nobel laureate Philip W. Anderson proposed a bizarre state of matter: the ...
Scientists design magnets with outstanding properties
New lightweight magnets have possible real-world applicationsCredit: Rodolphe Clérac An international team of researchers led by the Centre de Recherche ...
Higher-resolution imaging of living, moving cells using plasmonic metasurfaces
Metasurface of self-assembled gold nanoparticles shown to improve resolution of fluorescence images of living cells under a widefield optical microscope ...
100,000-fold enhancement in the nonlinearity of Si
Scientists at Osaka University develop silicon nanoresonators that can control the scattering of light when excited by another laser; this ...
‘Transparent solar cells’ can take us towards a new era of personalized energy
Scientists design novel transparent solar cells using thin silicon films, with efficient power generationCredit: Joel Filipe on Unsplash Today, the ...
Sheer protection from electromagnetic radiation
Credit: © 2020 KAUST A printable ink with an unsurpassed conductivity and transparency tradeoff has been developed by a KAUST ...
Reliable quality-control of graphene and other 2D materials is routinely possible
Credit: U.S. Department of Energy, Ames Laboratory Graphene and other single-atom-thick substances are a category of wonder materials, with researchers ...
Researchers break magnetic memory speed record
Advance could lead to new generation of ultrafast computer chips that retain data even when there is no powerCredit: Image ...
Scientists explain the paradox of quantum forces in nanodevices
Researchers proposed a new approach to describe the interaction of metals with electromagnetic fluctuations (i.e., with random bursts of electric ...
Odds are good for unique 2D compound
Perovskites synthesized at Rice University show potential for valleytronics applicationsCredit: Lou Group/Rice University HOUSTON - (Oct. 26, 2020) - Engineers ...
City, University of London academics develop algorithm to analyse HeLa cancer cells
Dr Constantino Carlos Reyes-Aldasoro and Dr Cefa Karabag collaborate with the Francis Crick Institute on a novel approach published in ...
QCLs exhibit extreme pulses
Extreme events in quantum cascade lasers enable an optical neuron system 10,000× faster than biological neuronsCredit: Spitz et al., doi ...
FEFU scientists helped design a new type of ceramics for laser applications
Credit: FEFU press office Material scientists from Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU) joined an international team of researchers to develop ...
Reviewing multiferroics for future, low-energy data storage
'Multi-ferroic' materials in low-energy data storageCredit: FLEET A new UNSW study comprehensively reviews the magnetic structure of the multiferroic material ...
No stain? No sweat: Terahertz waves can image early-stage breast cancer without staining
Team of researchers at Osaka University make key breakthrough towards on-site cancer diagnosisCredit: Osaka University A team of researchers at ...
A trillion turns of light nets terahertz polarized bytes
Nanophotonics researchers demonstrate ultrafast polarization switchingCredit: Photo by Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON - (Oct. 19, 2020) - U.S. and Italian ...
