Trapping light with an optical version of a whispering gallery, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a nanoscale coating for solar cells that enables them to absorb about ...
Nanophysics
Apr 13, 2018
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Researchers from the Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Science, a joint SLAC-Stanford institute, have seen strong indications of a relationship between the superconductive and magnetic properties of high-temperature ...
Superconductivity
Feb 24, 2011
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Scientists at Rice University and the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, have discovered a method to make atomically flat gallium that shows promise for nanoscale electronics.
Nanomaterials
Mar 9, 2018
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Just as the heartbeats of today's electronic devices depend on the ability to switch the flow of electricity in semiconductors on and off with lightning speed, the viability of the "spintronic" devices of ...
General Physics
Feb 5, 2010
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There's good news in the search for the next generation of semiconductors. Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California Berkeley, have successfully ...
Nanophysics
Nov 22, 2010
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Creating semiconductor structures for high-end optoelectronic devices just got easier, thanks to University of Illinois researchers.
Nanophysics
Dec 22, 2011
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A long-standing controversy regarding the semiconductor gallium manganese arsenide, one of the most promising materials for spintronic technology, looks to have been resolved. Researchers with the Lawrence Berkeley National ...
Condensed Matter
Feb 27, 2012
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Scientists at Cambridge University have shown an amazing degree of control over the most fundamental aspect of an electronic circuit, how electrons move from one place to another.
Quantum Physics
Sep 21, 2011
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Anton Pischagin, a graduate student of the Faculty of Radiophysics advised by Professor Andrey Kokhanenko, is developing nanostructures based on silicon for converting solar energy into electricity. These materials will allow ...
Condensed Matter
Nov 14, 2016
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Terahertz rays -- radiation between microwaves and infrared rays on the electromagnetic spectrum -- are a promising means of detecting explosives, but they've proven hard to generate cost effectively. So far, solid-state ...
General Physics
Dec 16, 2010
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