News tagged with hall effect

European researchers make breakthrough in developing super-material graphene

(PhysOrg.com) -- A collaborative research project has brought the world a step closer to producing a new material on which future nanotechnology could be based. Researchers across Europe, including the UK's ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jan 19, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (23) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Researchers create 'synthetic magnetic fields' for neutral atoms

(PhysOrg.com) -- Achieving an important new capability in ultracold atomic gases, researchers at the Joint Quantum Institute, a collaboration of the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (17) | comments 2

New study confirms exotic electric properties of graphene

(PhysOrg.com) -- First, it was the soccer-ball-shaped molecules dubbed buckyballs. Then it was the cylindrically shaped nanotubes. Now, the hottest new material in physics and nanotechnology is graphene: ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (23) | comments 1

Improved Electric Propulsion Could Boost Satellite Lifetimes

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have won a $6.5 million grant to develop improved components that will boost the efficiency of electric propulsion systems used to control ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Scientists discover, visualize exotic electrons on surfaces of unique insulators

(PhysOrg.com) -- In two separate studies, Princeton-led teams of scientists have found a new type of “light-like” electron and visualized for the first time another type that doesn’t bounce back when material imperfections ...

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 10, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (14) | comments 2

Super-efficient Transistor Material Predicted

(PhysOrg.com) -- New work by condensed-matter theorists at the Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Science at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory points to a material that could one day be used to ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 15, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (36) | comments 10

Quantum Twist: Electrons Mimic Presence of Magnetic Field

(PhysOrg.com) -- An international team of scientists led by a Princeton University group recently discovered that on the surface of certain materials collective arrangements of electrons move in ways that ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 12, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (12) | comments 1

Observing the Quantum Hall Effect in 'Real' Space

(PhysOrg.com) -- When water transforms into steam, or magnetized iron changes to demagnetized iron, Katsushi Hashimoto explains to PhysOrg.com, a phase transition is taking place: “Classical phase transitions…often share ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 12, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (14) | comments 5 feature


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