Electronic map reveals ‘rules of the road’ in superconductor
Band structure map exposes iron selenide's enigmatic electronic signatureCredit: Image courtesy of M. Yi/Rice University HOUSTON -- (Dec. 6, 2019) ...
Tag: Superconductors/Semiconductors
Synthesizing an artificial synapse for artificial intelligence
Pitt Engineer Feng Xiong receives $500K NSF Career Award for advancing AI neural network technologyCredit: University of Pittsburgh Swanson School ...
A platform for stable quantum computing, a playground for exotic physics
Recent research settles a long-standing debateCredit: (Video courtesy of Harris Pirie/Harvard University) Move over Godzilla vs. King Kong -- this ...
Non-adiabatic dynamics of strongly driven diffusive Josephson junctions
Credit: University of Jyväskylä/Pauli Virtanen Understanding how microwave absorption changes the transport properties of diffusive Josephson junctions is at the ...
Pitt engineer Sangyeop Lee receives $500K NSF CAREER Award
Lee will use machine learning to improve energy performance of semiconductors and insulatorsCredit: University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering ...
Successful instrument guidance through deep and convoluted blood vessel networks
Latest breakthrough by Professor Sylvain Martel's team at Polytechnique Montréal opens up new horizons for endovascular surgeryCredit: Massouh bioMEDia for ...
Study sheds light on the peculiar ‘normal’ phase of high-temperature superconductors
It reveals an abrupt transition in cuprates where particles give up their individuality; the results flip a popular theory on ...
Towards high quality ZnO quantum dots prospective for biomedical applications
Credit: IPC PAS, G.Krzyzewski Nanocrystalline zinc oxide (ZnO) is currently one of the most commonly used semiconductor metal oxide nanomaterials ...
Diamonds in your devices: Powering the next generation of energy storage
Using conductive nanodiamond as electrode material in a water-based cell significantly increases its energy storage capacity, scientists findCredit: Tokyo University ...
Bending an organic semiconductor can boost electrical flow
Rutgers-led research could benefit next-generation electronicsCredit: Vitaly Podzorov/Rutgers University-New Brunswick p>Slightly bending semiconductors made of organic materials can roughly double ...
Development of a new low-cost gallium nitride (GaN) crystal manufacturing device
A breakthrough in the development of power devicesCredit: Taiyo Nippon Sanso Co. JST announces the successful development of a high-quality ...
New co-editors appointed for Journal of Micro/Nanolithography, MEMS, and MOEMS
Levinson, Zappe will lead the journal beginning in January 2020Credit: SPIE BELLINGHAM, Washington, USA, and Cardiff, UK -- Two new ...
Solving the thermoelectric ‘trade-off’ conundrum with metallic carbon nanotubes
Strategy to bypass trade-off between thermoelectric voltage and conductivityCredit: Tokyo Metropolitan University Tokyo, Japan - Scientists from Tokyo Metropolitan University ...
Daylight damage-saving time
A research team led by Kanazawa University studies the process by which the performance of advanced solar cells degrades over ...
Ternary acceptor and donor materials increase photon harvesting in organic solar cells
Adding a semiconducting polymer donor or non-fullerene acceptor component to binary organic solar cells enhances spectral response for better photon ...
New study shows unique magnetic transitions in quasicrystal-like structures
Scientists showed for the first time the presence of unique magnetic transitions in peculiar structures similar to quasicrystalsCredit: Tokyo University ...
Hourglass-shaped silicon nanowire photodiodes with increased absorption of light developed
-Top: Image of SEM The near-infrared light is a light source with the shortest wavelength, indicated outside of the red ...
2019 ACM Gordon Bell Prize awarded to ETH Zurich team for simulation that maps heat in transistors
DaCe OMEN framework could help industry design better and more efficient computer chipsCredit: ACM ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, ...
Study probes relationship between strange metals and high-temperature superconductors
Computer simulations yield a much more accurate picture of these states of matterCredit: Greg Stewart/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory Strange metals ...
Big plans to save the planet depend on nanoscopic materials improving energy storage
Drexel researchers lead international report on future of nanomaterials for energy storageCredit: Drexel University The challenge of building an energy ...