Nanomaterials
Sep 17, 2020
Floating graphene on a sheet of calcium atoms
Adding calcium to a composite graphene-substrate structure creates a high transition-temperature (Tc) superconductor.
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General Physics
Sep 14, 2020
Physicists discover new magnetoelectric effect
Electricity and magnetism are closely related: Power lines generate a magnetic field, rotating magnets in a generator produce electricity. However, the phenomenon is much more complicated: electrical and magnetic properties ...
Materials Science
Sep 7, 2020
An environmentally friendly way to transform silicon into nanoparticles
Skoltech scientists and their colleagues from Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU) have developed a new method of silicon recycling. Their research was published in ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering.
Nanophysics
Sep 1, 2020
Memory in a metal, enabled by quantum geometry
The emergence of artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques is changing the world dramatically with novel applications such as internet of things, autonomous vehicles, real-time imaging processing and big data ...
Materials Science
Aug 28, 2020
Laser writing of nitrogen-doped silicon carbide for biological modulation
In materials science, conducting and semiconducting materials can be embedded in insulating polymeric substrates for useful biointerface applications. However, it is challenging to achieve the composite configuration directly ...
Nanophysics
Aug 24, 2020
Nanoscale imaging of dopant nanostructures in silicon-based devices
When fabricating integrated circuits and different types of silicon-based devices, researchers need to position dopant nanostructures in specific ways with high levels of precision. However, arranging these structures at ...
Nanophysics
Aug 14, 2020
Stabilizing monolayer nitrides with silicon
In a new report published in Science, Yi-Lun Hong and a group of research scientists in materials science, engineering, and advanced technology in China and the U.K. investigated two-dimensional (2-D) materials to discover ...
Nanomaterials
Jul 15, 2020
Researchers using ultraviolet lasers make unprecedented measurement of nanomaterials
University of Colorado Boulder researchers have used ultra-fast extreme ultraviolet lasers to measure the properties of materials more than 100 times thinner than a human red blood cell.
Nanomaterials
Jul 13, 2020
Black phosphorus-based van der Waals heterostructures for mid-infrared light-emission applications
Researchers have realized optically and electrically driven mid-infrared (MIR) light-emitting devices in a simple but novel van der Waals (vdW) heterostructure constructed from thin-film black phosphorus (BP) and transition-metal ...
Materials Science
Jul 8, 2020
Bright early light of LEDs
LED lamps are lighting up the world more and more. Global LED sales in residential lighting have risen from five percent of the market in 2013 to 40 percent in 2018, according to the International Energy Agency, and other ...
