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Cutting-edge experiments reveal 'hidden' details in transforming material with implications for faster microelectronics
Phase changes are central to the world around us. Probably the most familiar example is when ice melts into water or water boils into steam, but phase changes also underlie heating systems and even digital memory, such as ...
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Mar 21, 2025
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Machine learning uncovers hidden heat transport mechanisms in organic semiconductors
Complex materials such as organic semiconductors or the microporous metal-organic frameworks known as MOFs are already being used for numerous applications such as OLED displays, solar cells, gas storage and water extraction. ...
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Mar 20, 2025
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A possible way to generate electricity using Earth's rotational energy
A trio of physicists from Princeton University, CIT's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Spectral Sensor Solutions, all in the U.S., is proposing the possibility of generating electricity using energy from the rotation of the ...
AI helps design Fe-based amorphous alloys for efficient high-power electronics
Researchers from the Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have leveraged artificial intelligence (AI) to design a novel series of Fe-based amorphous alloys. These materials ...
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Mar 19, 2025
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Good vibrations: Scientists discover a method for exciting phonon-polaritons
Imagine a world where your phone stays cool no matter how long you use it, and it's also equipped with tiny sensors that can identify dangerous chemicals or pollutants with unparalleled sensitivity and precision.
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Mar 19, 2025
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Quantum heat dynamics toggled by magnetic fields in semimetal ZrTe₅
Scientists know well how conventional materials conduct heat. However, things are not as straightforward under extreme conditions such as temperatures close to absolute zero combined with strong magnetic fields, where strange ...
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Mar 19, 2025
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Thermomajorization theory provides new framework for quantifying mysterious Mpemba effect
The Mpemba effect is an intriguing physical phenomenon that causes some systems to cool faster when they are hot than when they are warm or colder. This effect was observed in various systems, including water, which sometimes ...
Researchers advance substrate engineering pathways to improve power electronics
As the growth in global electricity need and supply continues to accelerate, efficient power electronics will be key to improving grid efficiency, stability, integration, and resilience for all energy sources.
Condensed Matter
Mar 18, 2025
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An acoustic Ising machine: Novel system tackles hard combinatorial problems
Researchers at the University of Gothenburg have developed a novel Ising machine that utilizes surface acoustic waves as an effective carrier of dense information flow. This approach enables fast, energy-efficient solutions ...
Condensed Matter
Mar 17, 2025
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Q&A: Crystallizing time—physicists create a new phase of matter in the center of a diamond
In their ongoing efforts to push the boundaries of quantum possibilities, physicists in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis have created a new type of "time crystal," a novel phase of matter that defies ...
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Mar 17, 2025
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The discovery of pressure-driven charge amorphization: A new twist in material transformations
Researchers have uncovered a surprising phenomenon in the material BiNiO3: when subjected to high pressure at low temperatures, its well-arranged electrical charges are disrupted, leading to a disordered "charge glass" state.
Condensed Matter
Mar 17, 2025
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The first observation of amplified spontaneous emission from electron-hole plasma in 2D semiconductors
Amplified spontaneous emission is a physical phenomenon that entails the amplification of the light spontaneously emitted by excited particles, due to photons of the same frequency triggering further emissions. This phenomenon ...
Olympicene molecular chains create quantum spin systems with spintronics applications
In a new publication in Nature Materials, an international team of researchers has developed groundbreaking artificial chains of the iconic "olympicene" molecules to realize the antiferromagnetic (AF) spin-½ Heisenberg model, ...
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Mar 14, 2025
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Understanding the origin of magnetic moment enhancement in novel alloys
Magnetic materials have become indispensable to various technologies that support our modern society, such as data storage devices, electric motors, and magnetic sensors.
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Mar 14, 2025
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Spinning, twisted light could power next-generation electronics
Researchers have advanced a decades-old challenge in the field of organic semiconductors, opening new possibilities for the future of electronics. The researchers, led by the University of Cambridge and the Eindhoven University ...
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Mar 13, 2025
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Researchers achieve record-high electrostrain in lead-free piezoceramics
Researchers from Tsinghua University, the Beijing Institute of Technology, the University of Wollongong (Australia), and the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, have achieved an ultrahigh ...
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Mar 13, 2025
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First observation of Bose–Einstein condensation of two-magnon bound state in spin-1 triangular lattice reported
Using the Multi-frequency High Field Electron Spin Resonance Spectrometer at the Steady-State High Magnetic Field Facility (SHMFF), researchers observed the first-ever Bose–Einstein condensation (BEC) of a two-magnon bound ...
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Mar 13, 2025
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Reading magnetic states faster—in far infrared
With today's data rates of only a few hundred megabytes per second, access to digital information remains relatively slow. Initial experiments have already shown a promising new strategy: Magnetic states can be read out by ...
Condensed Matter
Mar 13, 2025
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A new kind of Hall effect: Physicists reveal potential of noncollinear antiferromagnets in spintronics
A team of researchers led by Colorado State University graduate student Luke Wernert and Associate Professor Hua Chen has discovered a new kind of Hall effect that could enable more energy-efficient electronic devices.
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Mar 13, 2025
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Revealing the hidden symmetries of a superconductor
A possible method for probing the properties of exotic particles that exist on the surfaces of an unusual type of superconductor has been theoretically proposed by two RIKEN physicists.
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Mar 13, 2025
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