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Polymers Oct 24, 2022

Optical indicators based on cholesteric liquid crystal polymers

Optical indicators based colored polymers are autonomous responsive labels that provide an optical signal to represent a specific exposure over time. Polymers that possess a high degree of order can establish structural color, ...

Optics & Photonics Oct 24, 2022

Newly discovered optical effect allows the IceCube Neutrino Observatory to deduce ice crystal properties

Every second, 100 trillion neutrinos pass through the human body. These tiny, almost massless particles travel tremendous distances through space while carrying information about their sources and are created by some of the ...

Superconductivity Oct 13, 2022

Changing direction: Research team discovers switchable electronic chirality in an achiral Kagome superconductor

An international research team led by the Department of Microstructured Quantum Matter at the MPSD reports the first observation of switchable chiral transport in a structurally achiral crystal, the Kagome superconductor ...

Nanophysics Oct 7, 2022

New system designs nanomaterials that conduct heat in specific ways

Computer chips are packed with billions of microscopic transistors that enable powerful computation, but also generate a great deal of heat. A buildup of heat can slow a computer processor and make it less efficient and reliable. ...

Condensed Matter Sep 28, 2022

Antiferromagnetic materials and their suitability for future data storage applications

Society's increasing use of electronic devices motivates the search for new and better data storage techniques. Magnetic storage devices, such as hard disk drives, have been the mainstays for data storage over the past few ...

Nanophysics Sep 26, 2022

New nanocomposite films boost heat dissipation in thin electronics

The last few decades have witnessed a tremendous advance in electronics technology, with the development of devices that are thinner, lightweight, flexible, and robust. However, as the devices get thinner so does the space ...

Optics & Photonics Sep 9, 2022

Lattice distortion of perovskite quantum dots induces coherent quantum beating

A research group led by Prof. Wu Kaifeng from the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), in collaboration with Dr. Peter C. Sercel from the Center for Hybrid Organic Inorganic ...

Condensed Matter Aug 9, 2022

The experimental observation of long-lived phantom helix states in Heisenberg quantum magnets

Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms, Harvard University and Stanford University have recently unveiled the existence of unique helical spin states in Heisenberg ...

Nanophysics Aug 8, 2022

Manipulating interlayer magnetic coupling in van der Waals heterostructures

An RMIT-led international collaboration has observed, for the first time, electric gate-controlled exchange-bias effect in van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures, offering a promising platform for future energy-efficient, beyond-CMOS ...

Condensed Matter Aug 3, 2022

Evidence of a new type of disordered quantum Wigner Solid

Physicists have been trying to determine the ground states of 2D electron systems at extremely low densities and temperatures for many decades now. The first theoretical predictions for these ground states were put forward ...

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