News tagged with impurity atoms

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

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

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