The Institute for Quantum Computing at the University of Waterloo set a world record for creating a Canadian flag measuring about one one-hundredth the width of a human hair.
Nanophysics
Sep 19, 2016
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Computer chip makers continuously strive to pack more transistors in less space, yet as the size of those transistors approaches the atomic scale, there are physical limits on how small they are able to make the patterns ...
Nanophysics
Sep 9, 2016
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Ordered patterns of gold nanoparticles on a silicon base can be stimulated to produce collective electron waves known as plasmons that absorb only certain narrow bands of light, making them promising for a wide range of arrays ...
Nanophysics
Sep 8, 2016
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A device made of bilayer graphene, an atomically thin hexagonal arrangement of carbon atoms, provides experimental proof of the ability to control the momentum of electrons and offers a path to electronics that could require ...
Nanomaterials
Aug 29, 2016
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Waveguides are widely used for filtering, confining, guiding, coupling or splitting beams of visible light. However, creating waveguides that could do the same for X-rays has posed tremendous challenges in fabrication, so ...
Optics & Photonics
Aug 18, 2016
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By measuring the emission spectrum of the extreme ultraviolet wavelength range, researchers at the National Institute for Fusion Science and Koike of Sophia University have discovered a new spectral line that has not been ...
Plasma Physics
Aug 1, 2016
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Making faster, more powerful electronics requires smaller but still uniform connections, or junctions, between different materials. For the first time, researchers created extremely small, 5-nanometer-wide junctions, which ...
Nanomaterials
Jun 13, 2016
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Sagrario DomÃnguez-Fernández, a telecommunications engineer, has managed to increase light absorption in silicon by means of nanostructures etched onto photovoltaic cells. This increases the efficiency obtained in these ...
Nanomaterials
Jun 8, 2016
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One secret to creating the world's fastest silicon-based flexible transistors: a very, very tiny knife.
Nanophysics
Apr 20, 2016
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Nature is no doubt the world's best biological engineer, whose simple, exquisite but powerful designs have inspired scientists and engineers to tackle the challenges of technologies for centuries. Scientists recently mimicked ...
Optics & Photonics
Apr 14, 2016
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