Scientists uncover secret of material for promising thermal imagers
Credit: MIPT Press Office Researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and the RAS Institute for Theoretical and ...
Tag: Superconductors/Semiconductors
Scientists predicted new hard and superhard ternary compounds
Credit: A. Kvashnin et al./Chemistry of Materials Scientists from the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech), Institute of Solid ...
Nanoearthquakes control spin centers in SiC
Credit: A. Hernandez-Minguez Researchers from the Paul-Drude-Institut in Berlin, the Helmholtz-Zentrum in Dresden and the Ioffe Institute in St. Petersburg ...
Quantum leap for speed limit bounds
Rice physicists set far-more-accurate limits on speed of quantum informationCredit: Image courtesy of Zhiyuan Wang/Rice University HOUSTON - (Sept. 3, ...
Electric current is manipulated by light in an organic superconductor
An ultrashort pulse laser opens a new pathway toward petahertz electron technologyCredit: NINS/IMS In modern information technology (IT), data are ...
UArizona collaborates on $115M effort to build quantum computer
Three University of Arizona engineers are involved in the Superconducting Quantum Materials and Systems Center, part of a $625 million ...
Continuous and stable lasing achieved from low-cost perovskites at room temperature
Suppression of long-lived energetic states called triplet excitons shown to be key for preventing the "lasing death" that has been ...
New evidence for quantum fluctuations near a quantum critical point in a superconductor
Theory suggests that quantum critical points may be analogous to black holes as places where all sorts of strange phenomena ...
A topography of extremes
On the track of unconventional superconductivity, researchers are charting unknown territoryCredit: Toni Helm/HZDR An international team of scientists from the ...
Photonics researchers report breakthrough in miniaturizing light-based chips
Credit: University of Rochester illustration / Michael Osadciw Photonic integrated circuits that use light instead of electricity for computing and ...
Nanodots made of photovoltaic material support waveguide modes
New spectroscopic technique for studying nanostructures demonstrates that stibnite nanodots can act as high-optical-quality waveguides and are promising candidates as ...
Battery life for wearable electronic devices could be improved
Credit: WMG, University of Warwick Researchers in WMG and the Department of Physics at the University of Warwick have found ...
Rice’s RAMBO-II: A sequel better than the original
First-of-its-kind spectrometer is getting stronger magnets, wider range of lasersCredit: Photo by Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON - (Aug. 24, 2020) ...
A touch of gold sends crystals electric with excitement
A touch of gold - or another noble metal - can change the structure of a crystal and its intrinsic ...
New superlattice by CCNY team could lead to sustainable quantum electronics
Credit: Image by Lukas Zhao A team of international physicists led by Lia Krusin-Elbaum of the City College of New ...
A new two-dimensional carbon allotrope — semiconducting diamane film synthesized
Credit: Feng Ke Atomically thin diamond, also called diamane, is a two-dimensional carbon allotrope and has attracted considerable scientific interest ...
New superlattice material for future energy efficient devices
Credit: Stony Brook University STONY BROOK, NY, August 17, 2020 - A team of international physicists including Jennifer Cano, PhD, ...
First ever observation of ‘time crystals’ interacting
Credit: Aalto University/Mikko Raskinen For the first time ever, scientists have witnessed the interaction of a new phase of matter ...
Unexpectedly-fast conduction electrons in Na3Bi
Exchange, correlation effects crucial to electron speed and mobilityCredit: FLEET An Australian-led study uses a scanning-tunnelling microscope 'trick' to map ...
2D materials for ultrascaled field-effect transistors
One hundred candidates under the ab initio microscopeCredit: Mathieu Luisier/ETH Zurich With the increasing miniaturization of electronic components, researchers are ...