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Superconductivity Mar 11, 2024

Giving particle detectors a boost: New device acts like a superconductivity switch

In particle colliders that reveal the hidden secrets of the tiniest constituents of our universe, minute particles leave behind extremely faint electrical traces when they are generated in enormous collisions. Some detectors ...

Nanophysics Mar 6, 2024

Nanodevices can produce energy from evaporating tap or seawater

Evaporation is a natural process so ubiquitous that most of us take it for granted. In fact, roughly half of the solar energy that reaches the Earth drives evaporative processes. Since 2017, researchers have been working ...

Optics & Photonics Feb 20, 2024

Throwing lithography a curve: Research introduces mask wafer co-optimization method

At the heart of advancing semiconductor chip technology lies a critical challenge: creating smaller, more efficient electronic components. This challenge is particularly evident in the field of lithography, the process used ...

Nanomaterials Feb 8, 2024

A new 'metal swap' method for creating lateral heterostructures of 2D materials

Electronically conducting two-dimensional (2D) materials are currently hot topics of research in both physics and chemistry due to their unique properties that have the potential to open new avenues in science and technology. ...

Nanomaterials Feb 1, 2024

A positive spin: Electrospinning and electrospraying synergism for the nanomaterials industry

Combining two twins-tech—electrospinning and electrospraying—to fabricate novel nanomaterials is an urgent area of research for materials scientists and biomedical engineers, according to a new paper by Professor Hu Jinlian ...

Nanomaterials Feb 1, 2024

Wafer-scale patterning of gold nanoparticle arrays enables enhanced biosensing

A research team led by Prof. Li Yue from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has introduced a self-confined solid-state dewetting mechanism. This innovation significantly reduces the ...

Optics & Photonics Jan 31, 2024

New research shows how light propagates in integrated circuits on chips

The field of photonic integrated circuits focuses on the miniaturization of photonic elements and their integration in photonic chips—circuits that carry out a range of calculations using photons, rather than electrons ...

Nanophysics Jan 24, 2024

Sub-wavelength confinement of light demonstrated in indium phosphide nanocavity

As we transition to a new era in computing, there is a need for new devices that integrate electronic and photonic functionalities at the nanoscale while enhancing the interaction between photons and electrons. In an important ...

Optics & Photonics Jan 23, 2024

Metalens array to enable next-generation true-3D near-eye displays

Integral imaging (II) display is one of the most promising near-eye displays (NEDs) due to its compact volume, full parallax, convenient full-color display, and, more importantly, true-3D and more realistic depth perception ...

Nanophysics Jan 19, 2024

Quantum physicist uses graphene ribbons to build nanoscale power plants

When Mickael Perrin started out on his scientific career 12 years ago, he had no way of knowing he was conducting research in an area that would be attracting wide public interest only a few years later: Quantum electronics. ...

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