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Controlling sound waves with Klein tunneling improves acoustic signal filtration
In the context of sensory modalities, eyes work like tiny antennae, picking up light, electromagnetic waves traveling at blistering speeds. When humans look at the world, their eyes catch these waves and convert them into ...
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Fast-responding colorimetric sensor for real-time monitoring has expanded color gamut
Colorimetric sensors detect environmental changes by intuitively shifting colors, easily visible to the naked eye without the need for additional equipment. Furthermore, they operate with zero power consumption. By shifting ...
Nanophysics
Oct 18, 2024
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Adaptive ferroelectric materials show promise for energy-efficient supercomputing
Researchers have revealed an adaptive response with a ferroelectric device, which responds to light pulses in a way that resembles the plasticity of neural networks. This behavior could find application in energy-efficient ...
Nanophysics
Oct 16, 2024
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Researchers achieve tunable coherent population trapping in a double quantum dot system
A research team has achieved coherent population trapping (CPT) in a semiconductor double quantum dot (DQD) system.
Nanophysics
Oct 16, 2024
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Diamond bonding technique could improve both quantum and conventional electronics
Synthetic diamond is durable, inert, rigid, thermally conductive and chemically well-behaved—an elite material for both quantum and conventional electronics. But there's one problem. Diamond only likes diamond.
Nanophysics
Oct 16, 2024
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Research team creates hybrid resonant metasurfaces with configurable structural colors
"Color is crucial," as pop artist Roy Lichtenstein famously said, but the significance of color extends far beyond art. From the creation of Prussian blue—the first synthetic pigment—to quantum dots in modern display ...
Nanophysics
Oct 15, 2024
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Researchers discover tunable 2D electron gas at heterointerface of 5d iridates
Recently, Professor Yang Xiaoping's research group at the High Magnetic Field Laboratory, the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, discovered a tunable and controllable monoatomic layer ...
Nanophysics
Oct 15, 2024
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3D printing method could improve micro energy storage
One key to making portable devices more compact and energy efficient lies in the precise nanoscale form of energy-storing capacitors. Researchers in Sweden report they've cracked the challenge with a unique 3D printing method.
Nanophysics
Oct 14, 2024
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Engineering perovskite materials at the atomic level paves way for new lasers, LEDs
Researchers have developed and demonstrated a technique that allows them to engineer a class of materials called layered hybrid perovskites (LHPs) down to the atomic level, which dictates precisely how the materials convert ...
Nanophysics
Oct 11, 2024
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Finely regulated luminescent Ag-In-Ga-S quantum dots with green-red dual emission toward white LEDs
Semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) materials have shown great potential for applications in lighting and display fields due to their wide color gamut, adjustable emission wavelength, high quantum efficiency, high color saturation, ...
Nanophysics
Oct 11, 2024
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A quantum material could be the future of high-energy X-ray imaging and particle detection
Scintillators are detectors that make high-energy X-rays or particles visible through flashes of light to form an image. Their many applications include particle physics, medical imaging, X-ray security and more.
Nanophysics
Oct 11, 2024
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A new plasma-based technological design boosts graphene production by more than 22%
Harder than a diamond, stronger than steel, as flexible as rubber and lighter than aluminum. These are just some of the properties attributed to graphene. Although this material has sparked great interest in the scientific ...
Nanophysics
Oct 10, 2024
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Novel visible light communication encryption technology uses chiral nanoparticles
A research team has developed a novel visible light communication encryption technology with high security using chiral nanoparticles.
Nanophysics
Oct 10, 2024
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Peptides and plastics combine for energy-efficient materials
Step aside hard, rigid materials. There is a new soft, sustainable electroactive material in town—and it's poised to open new possibilities for medical devices, wearable technology and human-computer interfaces.
Nanophysics
Oct 9, 2024
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Reducing energy loss in metal nanostructures by altering geometrical dimensions
Researchers at City University of Hong Kong (CityUHK) have made a discovery that significantly reduces energy loss in metal nanostructures. By altering the geometrical dimensions of these structures, researchers have unlocked ...
Nanophysics
Oct 8, 2024
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Nanoscale method boosts materials for advanced memory storage
Next-generation technologies, such as leading-edge memory storage solutions and brain-inspired neuromorphic computing systems, could touch nearly every aspect of our lives—from the gadgets we use daily to the solutions ...
Nanophysics
Oct 7, 2024
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Modeling system could enable future generations of self-sensing materials
Research that eliminates the guesswork in developing advanced 3D printed materials could help accelerate the development of new forms of "self-sensing" airplanes, robots, bridges and more.
Nanophysics
Oct 7, 2024
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Theoretical physicist uncovers how twisting layers of a material can generate mysterious electron-path-deflecting effect
In 2018, a discovery in materials science sent shock waves throughout the community. A team showed that stacking two layers of graphene—a honeycomb-like layer of carbon extracted from graphite—at a precise "magic angle" ...
Nanophysics
Oct 4, 2024
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Researchers create orientation-independent magnetic field-sensing nanotube spin qubits
Purdue University researchers have developed patent-pending one-dimensional boron nitride nanotubes (BNNTs) containing spin qubits, or spin defects. The BNNTs are more sensitive in detecting off-axis magnetic fields at high ...
Nanophysics
Oct 2, 2024
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Light-based microcapillary monitoring sparks innovation in manufacturing and biotechnology
Researchers have developed a breakthrough technology that uses light to visualize nanoscale glass microcapillary tips, enabling precise and delicate contact with other objects.
Bio & Medicine
Oct 1, 2024
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