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Bio & Medicine Jan 22, 2024

Fingerprinting biomolecules with the help of sound

A team of researchers from the Institute for Optoelectronic Systems and Microtechnology at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) has designed a biosensor capable of identifying proteins and peptides in quantities as low ...

Optics & Photonics Jan 18, 2024

Reaching the quantum ground state of sound in waveguides: Scientists move a step closer

A team of scientists at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light led by Dr. Birgit Stiller has succeeded in cooling traveling sound waves in waveguides considerably further than has previously been possible using ...

Superconductivity Jan 18, 2024

Making a superconductor liquid–solid out of the vacuum with hundred-exatesla-strong magnetic fields

The discovery of superconductivity more than a century ago has significantly changed our world.

Condensed Matter Jan 17, 2024

Higher measurement accuracy opens new window to the quantum world

A team at HZB has developed a new measurement method that, for the first time, accurately detects tiny temperature differences in the range of 100 microKelvin in the thermal Hall effect. Previously, these temperature differences ...

Optics & Photonics Jan 12, 2024

Light-matter interaction: Broken symmetry drives polaritons

An international team of scientists provide an overview of the latest research on light-matter interactions. A team of scientists from the Fritz Haber Institute, the City University of New York, and the Universidad de Oviedo ...

Condensed Matter Jan 11, 2024

Research offers insights into the metal-to-insulator transition without breaking symmetry

Metal-to-insulator transition—a process that turns materials from a conductor to an insulator—has been a crucial process behind microelectronic switches, nonvolatile memory, and neuromorphic computing materials. In many ...

Condensed Matter Dec 27, 2023

Engineers pair laser light to crystal lattice vibrations to enhance optical properties of 2D material

Engineers at Columbia University and theoretical collaborators at the Max Planck for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter have found that pairing laser light to crystal lattice vibrations can enhance the nonlinear optical ...

Condensed Matter Dec 21, 2023

Research unveils Rubik's cube-like Heusler materials with potential for thermoelectric applications

Researchers from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have designed Slater-Pauling (S-P) Heusler materials with a unique structure resembling a Rubik's cube. These materials exhibit ...

General Physics Dec 16, 2023

Electronic pathways may enhance collective atomic vibrations' magnetism

Materials with enhanced thermal conductivity are critical for the development of advanced devices to support applications in communications, clean energy and aerospace. But in order to engineer materials with this property, ...

Condensed Matter Dec 14, 2023

Attoscience unveils a light-matter hybrid phase in graphite reminiscent of superconductivity

X-ray absorption spectroscopy is an element-selective and electronic-state sensitive technique that is one of the most widely used analytical techniques to study the composition of materials or substances. Until recently, ...

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