Tag: Superconductors/Semiconductors

Credit: UHH/Mathey When you cool down liquid water, it crystallizes into ice. Consider a bucket filled with water, for example. ...

Credit: © National Institute of Informatics A major technical challenge for any practical, real-world quantum computer comes from the need ...

Credit: University of Groningen Thermoelectric materials can turn a temperature difference into electricity. Organic thermoelectric materials could be used to ...

Credit: © MPI CPfS The understanding of unconventional superconductivity is one of the most challenging and fascinating tasks of solid-state ...

Familiarity with self-power generation devicesCredit: Nagoya University The Japanese research team elucidated the microscopic mechanism in which amorphous silica(1) becomes ...

'Bad' and mysterious yet highly effective in superconducting at high temperatures; even if, according to expectations, these materials should not ...

Complex 3D nanoscale architectures based on DNA self-assembly can conduct electricity without resistance and may provide a platform for fabricating ...

Researchers demonstrate a superconductor previously thought impossibleCredit: © 2020 Okazaki et al. Superconductivity is a phenomenon where an electric circuit ...

EPFL engineers have developed a computer chip that combines two functions - logic operations and data storage - into a ...

Scientists develop a simple and scalable strategy to produce resin films with anti-reflective nanostructures--inspired by eyes of mothsCredit: Ian Lindsay ...

Scientists at Swansea University have developed a very sensitive method to detect the tiny signatures of so called 'charge traps' ...

Credit: University of Nottingham The University of Nottingham has cracked the conundrum of how to use inks to 3D-print novel ...

Scientists design novel transparent solar cells using thin silicon films, with efficient power generationCredit: Joel Filipe on Unsplash Today, the ...

Credit: © 2020 KAUST A printable ink with an unsurpassed conductivity and transparency tradeoff has been developed by a KAUST ...

SLAC and Stanford partner with two Illinois universities to create the Center for Quantum Sensing and Quantum Materials, which aims ...

Credit: U.S. Department of Energy, Ames Laboratory Graphene and other single-atom-thick substances are a category of wonder materials, with researchers ...

Researchers proposed a new approach to describe the interaction of metals with electromagnetic fluctuations (i.e., with random bursts of electric ...

Credit: Hsiu-Yu Chen In a paper published in NANO, researchers from National Taiwan University examined the photocatalytic performances of titanate ...

High honor for photonics expert ZhouCredit: UT Arlington The Optical Society (OSA) has named an electrical engineering professor from The ...

Scientists place another piece of the puzzle on how introducing alkali metals into crystals of thin-film flexible solar cells improves ...