Choreographing the dance of electrons

Scientists at the National University of Singapore (NUS) have demonstrated a new way of controlling electrons by confining them in a device made out of atomically thin materials, and applying external electric and magnetic ...

New 'doping' method improves properties of carbon nanotubes

(Phys.org) —Yale University researchers have developed a simple method for controlling the "doping" of carbon nanotubes (CNTs), a chemical process that optimizes the tubes' properties. Reported April 29 in Nano Letters, ...

New property in warm superconductors discovered

(PhysOrg.com) -- Led by Simon Fraser University physicist Jeff Sonier, scientists at TRIUMF have discovered something that they think may severely hinder the creation of room-temperature (37 degrees Celsius) superconductors.

Researchers attempt to explain superconductive phenomenon

Superconductivity with a high critical temperature (high Tc) presents a theoretical mystery. While this phenomenon is experimentally well established, science has not explained its mechanism. In the late 1990s, the British ...

High-performance MoS2 field-effect transistors

A team of researchers from Purdue University, SEMATECH and SUNY College of Nanoscale Science and Engineeringwill present at the 2014 Symposium on VLSI Technology on their work involving high-performance molybdenum disulfide ...