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Seeing clearly: 2D nanoscopy achieves direct imaging of nanoscale coherence

(PhysOrg.com) -- Light has its limitations – in this case not velocity, but rather its diffraction limit, which determines the spatial interaction volume in all implementations of optical spectroscopy ...

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 18, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast feature

Berkeley lab scientists unveil an X-ray technique called HARPES

The expression “beauty’s only skin-deep” has often been applied to the chemistry of materials because so much action takes place at the surface. However, for many of the materials in today’s ...

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 25, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

A new look below the surface of nanomaterials

Scientists can now look deeper into new materials to study their structure and behavior, thanks to work by an international group of researchers led by UC Davis and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and published ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Aug 16, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Water-splitting Photocatalyst Brought to Light

(PhysOrg.com) -- To produce "green" fuels, some scientists are looking for a little help from above. Sunlight is the key ingredient in photocatalytic water splitting, a process that breaks down water into ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Jun 16, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (18) | comments 2 | with audio podcast




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Ultrafast laser helps to better understand high-temperature superconductors

Superconductivity, in which electric current flows without resistance, promises huge energy savings – from low-voltage electric grids with no transmission losses, superefficient motors and generators, ...

Physics / Superconductivity

created May 31, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Beyond the high-speed hard drive: Topological insulators open a path to room-temperature spintronics

(Phys.org) -- Strange new materials experimentally identified just a few years ago are now driving research in condensed-matter physics around the world. First theorized and then discovered by researchers ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created May 15, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (18) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

New spectroscopy technique enables investigation of two-dimensional electron states

Understanding and visualizing the energy states of electrons in a crystal provides important insights into many modern electronic materials, such as superconductors, or other materials that physicists can ...

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created Dec 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

International collaboration reveals magnetization textures in NiPd nanostructures

(PhysOrg.com) -- An international collaboration led by the NIST Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology  has used scanning electron microscopy with polarization analysis (SEMPA) to acquire images ...

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created Dec 08, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Extreme ultraviolet movies reveal inside story of complex materials

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new X-ray movie technique using extreme ultraviolet (XUV) pulses from Artemis (link opens in a new window), one of the world's most advanced lasers, could help unravel the mysteries of phenomena ...

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created Oct 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Bismuth-based semiconducting material could enable control of electron spin

In the developing field of spintronics, physicists are designing devices to transmit data using the inherent axial rotation, or spin, of electrons rather than their charge as is used in electronics. Weak coupling ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Oct 14, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Physicists report progress in understanding high-temperature superconductors

Although high-temperature superconductors are widely used in technologies such as MRI machines, explaining the unusual properties of these materials remains an unsolved problem for theoretical physicists. Major progress in ...

Physics / Superconductivity

created Jul 29, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (15) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Graphene gives up more of its secrets

Graphene, a sheet of carbon only a single atom thick, was an object of theoretical speculation long before it was actually made. Theory predicts extraordinary properties for graphene, but testing the predictions ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jul 15, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (12) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

A remarkable step toward next-generation energy-conservation

Tohoku University, Osaka University and Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) announced that they succeeded in directly observing electron spins in a topological insulator. The work has been published in Physical Review Le ...

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created Jun 29, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

CNST offers insights into metallic ferromagnetism using spin polarized electron probes

The Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology's Daniel Pierce has provided an overview of three decades of applications of spin-polarized measurement techniques to understanding metallic ferromagnetism.

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