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Optics & Photonics Jan 20, 2023

The Floquet engineering of quantum materials

Quantum materials are materials with unique electronic, magnetic or optical properties, which are underpinned by the behavior of electrons at a quantum mechanical level. Studies have showed that interactions between these ...

Nanophysics Sep 22, 2021

Researchers achieve charge-order-enhanced capacitance in semiconductor moiré superlattices

In recent years, electronics engineers have been experimenting with new materials that could be used to study electronic correlation phenomena. Van der Waals (vdW) moiré materials are particularly promising for examining ...

Nanomaterials Oct 13, 2020

Hall error revelations raise aspirations for 2-D materials

One of the first things people do when they come across a new material with potentially interesting electronic properties is measure the Hall voltage. Never has this been more true than with the explosion of new 2-D materials, ...

Quantum Physics Sep 27, 2019

Observations of Rydberg exciton polaritons and their condensate in a perovskite cavity

In quantum physics, Rydberg excitons with high principal value can exhibit strong dipole-dipole interactions. However, polaritons (quasiparticles) with an excitonic constituent in an excited state, known as Rydberg exciton ...

Nanomaterials Jun 20, 2019

Digitally programmable perovskite nanowire-block copolymer composites

One-dimensional nanomaterials with highly anisotropic optoelectronic properties can be used within energy harvesting applications, flexible electronics and biomedical imaging devices. In materials science and nanotechnology, ...

General Physics Jun 2, 2017

Researchers investigate decision-making by physical phenomena

(Phys.org)—Decision-making is typically thought of as something done by intelligent living things and, in modern times, computers. But over the past several years, researchers have demonstrated that physical objects such ...

Nanophysics Jan 13, 2017

Semiconducting nanonetwork could form the backbone of transparent, flexible electronics

(Phys.org)—Researchers may have found a "sweet spot" for organic electronics by fabricating a new 2D semiconducting polymer-blended nanonetwork material that simultaneously achieves excellent charge mobility, high flexibility, ...

Optics & Photonics Jun 7, 2016

The path to perfection: Quantum dots in electrically-controlled cavities yield bright, nearly identical photons

Optical quantum technologies are based on the interactions of atoms and photons at the single-particle level, and so require sources of single photons that are highly indistinguishable – that is, as identical as possible. ...

General Physics Feb 10, 2016

Materials by design: A radical shift in transforming bulk matter into useful technology

(Phys.org)—Statistical physics – the branch of physics that solves physical problem by using methods of probability theory and statistics (specifically, mathematical tools for large populations, approximations, and other ...

Condensed Matter Sep 28, 2015

Alloy engineering addresses long-standing problem of semiconductor defects

(Phys.org)—The performance of all of today's electronic devices depends on the quality of the semiconductor materials they're made of. Two of the most important factors that affect a semiconductor's properties are its band ...

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