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Light-controlling artificial diamond structures could lead to optical computers

(PhysOrg.com) -- In an effort to make computer chips even faster than those of today, many researchers have recently been investigating the possibility of optical computing. In an optical computer, information ...

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 17, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (10) | comments 3 | with audio podcast report

Graphene nanoribbons grow due to domino-like effect

(PhysOrg.com) -- While many labs are trying to efficiently synthesize large two-dimensional sheets of graphene, a team of researchers from Sweden and the UK is investigating the synthesis of very thin strips ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Sep 15, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 1 | with audio podcast feature

Lasers could produce much sought-after band gaps in graphene

(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the most often-cited features of graphene – the two-dimensional crystal lattice made of carbon – is its unique electronic properties. Many of these electronic properties make ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jun 20, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (15) | comments 9 | with audio podcast feature

Solving the solar cell power conversion dilemma

(PhysOrg.com) -- "There is a lot of interest in creating more efficient solar cells that are also simpler than many of the designs common now," Wladek Walukiewicz tells PhysOrg.com. "We think that, throug ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Jan 24, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (25) | comments 19 | with audio podcast feature

Enhanced efficiency when determining band gap in solids

(PhysOrg.com) -- "With density functional theory, we are able to put different elements in a computer simulation and do calculations based on quantum mechanics to find out about their different properties," Maria Chan tells ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Nov 23, 2010 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (11) | comments 1 | with audio podcast feature

Damaging graphene to create a band gap

(PhysOrg.com) -- "Graphene offers a lot of interesting potential applications for nanoelectronics," Florian Banhart tells PhysOrg.com, "but there is no band gap. This is a well-known problem. Without the band gap, switch ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Nov 22, 2010 | popularity 3.2 / 5 (9) | comments 2 | with audio podcast feature

Toward a better understanding of bilayer graphene

(PhysOrg.com) -- "Graphene is a very exciting material with a number of interesting possibilities, including for use in electronic devices," Pablo Jarillo-Herrero tells PhysOrg.com. "However, all graphene system ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Oct 26, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (7) | comments 1 | with audio podcast feature

Can graphene nanoribbons replace silicon?

(PhysOrg.com) -- "Graphene has been the subject of intense focus and research for a few years now," Philip Kim tells PhysOrg.com. "There are researchers that feel that it is possible that graphene could replac ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Feb 18, 2010 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (29) | comments 1 | with audio podcast feature

Using CNTs as infrared sensors

(PhysOrg.com) -- Semiconductors provide the bases for many different avenues of device research. Indeed, many of the technological devices that are commonplace in our society are reliant on semiconductors. However, as we ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jan 04, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (15) | comments 0 | with audio podcast feature

Nanocomposite material provides photonic switching

(PhysOrg.com) -- Integrated photonic devices represent the wave of future technology. These devices will be extremely small, making use of photons on the nanoscale, and (hopefully) be very efficient in terms of power use. ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Feb 09, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (9) | comments 0 feature

Availability of hydrogen controls chemical structure of graphene oxide

A new study shows that the availability of hydrogen plays a significant role in determining the chemical and structural makeup of graphene oxide, a material that has potential uses in nano-electronics, nano-electromechanical ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created May 22, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Bilayer graphene works as an insulator

A research team led by physicists at the University of California, Riverside has identified a property of "bilayer graphene" (BLG) that the researchers say is analogous to finding the Higgs boson in particle ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jan 24, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (10) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Chemists propose explanation for superconductivity at high temperatures

(PhysOrg.com) -- It has been 25 years since scientists discovered the first high-temperature superconductors—copper oxides, or cuprates, that conduct electricity without a shred of resistance at temperatures ...

Physics / Superconductivity

created Dec 15, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (19) | comments 27 | with audio podcast

Two-step technique makes graphene suitable for organic chemistry

The future brightened for organic chemistry when researchers at Rice University found a highly controllable way to attach organic molecules to pristine graphene, making the miracle material suitable for a ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Nov 29, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Layer upon layer: Method holds promise for making two- or three-tier graphene films

Graphene, a form of pure carbon arranged in a lattice just one atom thick, has interested countless researchers with its unique strength and its electrical and thermal conductivity. But one key property it ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jun 28, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

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