Mele and Kane win the Frontiers of Knowledge Award for discovering topological insulators
The BBVA Foundation's award in the Basic Sciences category has gone in this 11th edition to physicists Charles Kane and ...
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Magnonic devices can replace electronics without much noise
Magnonic devices of the future could use low power to avoid performance lossesCredit: Balandin Lab at UC Riverside Electronic devices ...
New quantum sensor could improve cancer treatment
A new quantum sensor developed by researchers at the University of Waterloo's Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) has proven it ...
Researchers use machine learning to more quickly analyze key capacitor materials
Credit: Allison Barnes, Georgia Tech Capacitors, given their high energy output and recharging speed, could play a major role in ...
Light pulses provide a new route to enhance superconductivity
Credit: RIKEN Materials known as Mott insulators are odd things. Under normal electron band theory they ought to conduct electricity, ...
What causes that peak? Answering a long-standing question for covalent liquids
Credit: 2019 Hajime Tanaka, Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo Tokyo - Materials that have a disordered structure ...
Organic electronics: Scientists develop a high-performance unipolar n-type thin-film transistor
-Credit: Tsuyoshi Michinobu, Yang Wang Researchers at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) report a unipolar n-type transistor with a ...
G-ray Nanotech and IKZ join forces to develop detector-grade gallium arsenide wafers
New platform for very high performance X-ray detectorsCredit: Matthias Kern, IKZ G-ray Nanotech and IKZ have entered into a research ...
Good news for future tech: Exotic ‘topological’ materials are surprisingly common
A new online catalog makes it easy to predict topological behaviors in materialsCredit: Maia G. Vergniory, Luis Elcoro, Claudia Felser, ...
Yale researchers create a ‘universal entangler’ for new quantum tech
Credit: Yale University New Haven, Conn. - One of the key concepts in quantum physics is entanglement, in which two ...
‘Immunizing’ quantum bits so that they can grow up
New material enhances supercurrent in topological-insulator nanoribbon Josephson junctionsCredit: Purdue University image/Morteza Kayyalha WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- Quantum computers will ...
New study reveals when a superconductor truly becomes super
Scientists confirm existence of 'quantum critical point' in copper-oxide-based superconductors and believe it could be the moment when superconductivity occursCredit: ...
Graphite offers up new quantum surprise
University of Manchester researchers have observed an unusual quantum Hall effect in the old three-dimensional material Researchers at The University ...
Topological defects could be key to future nano-electronics
Ferroic and multiferroic topological structures reviewed in Nature MaterialsCredit: FLEET The connection from fridge magnets to cutting edge materials science ...
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