Thin and ultra-fast photodetector sees the full spectrum
Researchers have developed the world's first photodetector that can see all shades of light, in a prototype device that radically ...
Tag: Nanotechnology/Micromachines
Hyperbolic metamaterials exhibit 2T physics
3D nonlinear ferro-fluid-based hyperbolic metamaterials may contribute to ultra-fast all-optical hyper-computingCredit: V. Smolyaninova et al., doi 10.1117/1.AP.2.5.056001 Metamaterials--nanoengineered structures designed ...
Highly efficient perovskite solar cells with enhanced stability and minimised lead leakage
Credit: City University of Hong Kong While the power conversion efficiency of perovskite solar cells (PVSCs) - a future of ...
Having a ball: Crystallization in a sphere
Credit: Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo Tokyo, Japan--Crystallization is the assembly of atoms or molecules into highly ...
The right formula for scaling production of promising material to decontaminate water
Credit: The University of Texas at Austin. An international team of researchers have found a way to refine and reliably ...
Why there is no speed limit in the superfluid universe
Credit: Lancaster University Physicists from Lancaster University have established why objects moving through superfluid helium-3 lack a speed limit in ...
Shape matters for light-activated nanocatalysts
Study: Pointed tips on aluminum 'octopods' increase catalytic reactivityCredit: Image courtesy of Lin Yuan/Rice University HOUSTON - (Sept. 18, 2020) ...
Engineers produce a fisheye lens that’s completely flat
The single piece of glass produces crisp panoramic imagesCredit: Mikhail Shalaginov, Tian Gu, Christine Daniloff, Felice Hankel, Juejun Hu To ...
Nano-microscope gives first direct observation of the magnetic properties of 2D materials
Discovery means new class of materials and technologiesCredit: David A. Broadway Australian researchers and their colleagues from Russia and China ...
Sturdy fabric-based piezoelectric energy harvester takes us one step closer to wearable electronics
Credit: KAIST KAIST researchers presented a highly flexible but sturdy wearable piezoelectric harvester using the simple and easy fabrication process ...
What happens between the sheets?
'Floating' graphene on a bed of calcium atomsCredit: FLEET Adding calcium to graphene creates an extremely-promising superconductor, but where does ...
Researchers have developed the world’s smallest ultrasound detector
'Honey, I shrunk the detector'Credit: © Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen / Roman Shnaiderman Researchers at Helmholtz Zentrum München and the Technical ...
Device could help detect signs of extraterrestrial life
Credit: Adapted from Analytical Chemistry 2020, DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.0c01628 Although Earth is uniquely situated in the solar system to support creatures ...
Microsoft and University of Copenhagen collaboration yields promising material for quantum computing
Credit: Charles Marcus Researchers at the Microsoft Quantum Materials Lab and the University of Copenhagen, working closely together, have succeeded ...
Physicists make electrical nanolasers even smaller
Credit: Dmitry Fedyanin Researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and King's College London cleared the obstacle that ...
Novel photoresist enables 3D printing of smallest porous structures
Researchers of the cluster of excellence 3D matter made to order expand possibilities of two-photon microprintingCredit: Figure: 3DMM2O Researchers of ...
Why do hospital germs bind more strongly to certain surfaces than to others?
Credit: Saarland University These results from studies in both experimental and theoretical physics may help to improve antibacterial surfaces. The ...
Great progress for electronic gadgets of the future
Researchers discover new way of controlling conductivity of materials at the nanoscaleCredit: Geir Mogen, NTNU Researchers at the Norwegian University ...
Reviewing the quantum material ‘engine room’, QAHE
Quantum anomalous Hall effect materials reviewedCredit: UOW An Australian collaboration has reviewed the fundamental theories underpinning the quantum anomalous Hall ...
Scientists updated genome editing technology
Researchers compared their developed carriers for delivery of genome editing (GE) tools with other available analogues.Credit: Peter the Great St.Petersburg ...
