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General Physics Mar 13, 2007

Creating a nanoscale laser

“Nowadays, people and companies want to try to make smaller and smaller integrated circuits. In order to do this, low-power optical devices, like lasers, are needed,” Tom Savels tells PhysOrg.com. Savels, a scientist ...

Nanophysics Jul 27, 2006

Scientists image 'magnetic semiconductors' on the nanoscale

In a first-of-its-kind achievement, scientists at the University of Iowa, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Princeton University have directly imaged the magnetic interactions between two magnetic atoms less ...

Feb 27, 2006

Nanoscale Tubing Assembles Itself Instantly

Making tubes useful often means joining them to other tubes and linking them together in networks. Easy enough to do with standard water pipes — but on the nanoscale, joining nanotubes is hard to do.

Feb 8, 2006

Study explains unexpected conductivity of nanoscale silicon

When graduate student Pengpeng Zhang successfully imaged a piece of silicon just 10 nanometers-or a millionth of a centimeter-in thickness, she and her University of Wisconsin-Madison co-researchers were puzzled. According ...

Sep 14, 2005

Rice researchers gain new insight into nanoscale optics

New research from Rice University has demonstrated an important analogy between electronics and optics that will enable light waves to be coupled efficiently to nanoscale structures and devices. The research is available ...

Nanomaterials Nov 18, 2022

Self-assembled nanoscale architectures could feature improved electronic, optical, and mechanical properties

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have developed a new way to guide the self-assembly of a wide range of novel nanoscale structures using simple polymers as starting materials. ...

Quantum Physics Sep 15, 2022

Physicists generate new nanoscale spin waves

Strong alternating magnetic fields can be used to generate a new type of spin wave that was previously just theoretically predicted. This was achieved for the first time by a team of physicists from Martin Luther University ...

Materials Science May 24, 2022

Secret to treating 'Achilles' heel' of perovskite alternatives to silicon solar panels revealed

A team of researchers from the UK and Japan has found that the tiny defects which limit the efficiency of perovskites—cheaper alternative materials for solar cells—are also responsible for structural changes in the material ...

Nanophysics Feb 2, 2022

'Quantum friction' slows water flow through carbon nanotubes, resolving long-standing fluid dynamics mystery

For 15 years, scientists have been baffled by the mysterious way water flows through the tiny passages of carbon nanotubes—pipes with walls that can be just one atom thick. The streams have confounded all theories of fluid ...

Nanophysics Dec 7, 2021

Storing information in DNA: Improving DNA storage with nanoscale electrode wells

Geneticists can store data in synthetic DNA as a medium for long-term storage due to its density, ease of copy, longevity and sustainability. Research in the field had recently advanced with new encoding algorithms, automation, ...

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