News tagged with impurity atoms

Cu-BTC proves redox capable, opens new doors for catalysis and gas storage

What holds the surface area of several football fields in the mass equivalent of a paper clip? The answer to this question has many names and performs duties ranging from catalysis to gas storage: the metal ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Apr 25, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

All that glitters is not gold

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers developing key new technology electronics like quantum computing or advanced detectors, as well as those studying basic material science and metal surface properties, often find ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Sep 29, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Diamonds shine in quantum networks: Researchers hitch precious stone's impurities onto nano-resonators

When it comes to dreaming about diamonds, energy efficiency and powerful information processing aren't normally the thoughts that spring to mind. Unless, of course, you are a quantum physicist looking to create the most secure ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Apr 26, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Segregation behaviors and radial distribution of dopant atoms in silicon nanowires

National Institute for Material Science, Japan Science and Technology Agency and University of Tsukuba announced on February 4, 2011 that they succeeded in detecting nondestructively dynamic behaviors of doped impurities ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Feb 28, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers put a new spin on atomic musical chairs

Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the Naval Research Laboratory have developed a new way to introduce magnetic impurities in a semiconductor crystal by prodding it with ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Study Yields Surprising New Insight into High-Temp Superconductors

(PhysOrg.com) -- Recently, an international group of researchers discovered that the underlying mechanism producing high-temperature superconductivity in a widely studied class of copper-oxygen-based superconductors may be ...

Physics / Superconductivity

created Mar 17, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (16) | comments 135 feature