News tagged with macroscopic properties

Multiferroic compounds used to produce smaller and cheaper digital memories

(PhysOrg.com) -- Is it possible to make even more compact digital memories for portable electronic devices and which consume even less energy? A team of French researchers has recently demonstrated that it ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Nov 27, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 1

One of the most important problems in materials science solved

Together with three colleagues Professor Peter Oppeneer of Uppsala University has explained the hitherto unsolved mystery in materials science known as 'the hidden order' - how a new phase arises and why. This discovery ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Feb 23, 2009 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (35) | comments 39




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An unlikely route to ferroelectricity

(Phys.org) -- Ferroelectricity, which was first observed in the 1940s, is an interesting phenomenon involving the spontaneous (non-induced) formation of charge polarization (separation of charge) in certain ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created May 18, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Researchers fold origami with light

(Phys.org) -- Replacing the need for nimble fingers, researchers have demonstrated how to make origami using light of a specific wavelength. They call the new folding technique photo-origami, and it could ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 10, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast feature

Researchers direct the self-assembly of gold nanoparticles into device-ready thin films

Scientists with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California (UC) Berkeley have directed the first self-assembly of nanoparticles into device-ready materials. Through ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Apr 27, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Electron microscopy inspires flexoelectric theory behind 'material on the brink'

Electron microscopy, conducted as part of the Shared Research Equipment (ShaRE) User Program at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has led to a new theory to explain intriguing properties in a material ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Apr 13, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Tasting carbon with WAFT'ed light: New instrument analyzes tiny samples at low pressure and temperature

(Phys.org) -- When delving into the nuances of carbon dioxide, a new instrument designed by scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory "sips" the sample and reveals information about the source of ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Apr 09, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Single molecules in a quantum movie

The quantum physics of massive particles has intrigued physicists for more than 80 years, since it predicts that even complex particles can exhibit wave-like behaviour – in conflict with our everyday ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Mar 25, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (9) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

An optical diode made with silicon technology can be used for quantum information

(PhysOrg.com) -- Transistors, resistors, capacitors, and diodes. All of these are examples of common electrical circuit elements that can be found on a computer motherboard, for instance. Billions of transistors ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Mar 23, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Two crystals linked by quantum physics

Physicists take a perverse pleasure in playing with the strangeness of the quantum world. That's how they have managed to entangle minuscule objects such as photons. After specific manipulations, they persuade two photons ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Mar 05, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (12) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Keeping it together: Protecting entanglement from decoherence and sudden death

(PhysOrg.com) -- Decoherence can be metaphorically seen as a quantum fall from grace: When quantum bits, or qubits, are in superposition – such as a single qubit simultaneously having both 1 and 0 values ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Feb 27, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (11) | comments 3 | with audio podcast feature

UD researchers first to attempt 3D carbon nanotube architectures

A team of three University of Delaware mechanical engineering professors, plus researchers from three other academic institutions, are collaborating to develop three-dimensional (3D) carbon nanotube structures.

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Feb 24, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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