Creation of 'weak' materials offers strong possibilities for electronics
New fundamental research by UT Dallas physicists may accelerate the drive toward more advanced electronics and more powerful computers.
New fundamental research by UT Dallas physicists may accelerate the drive toward more advanced electronics and more powerful computers.
Condensed Matter
May 31, 2016
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Laptop computer users operating their devices on their laps will be familiar with the heat they generate, which comes from electrical resistance converting waste energy to heat. Scientists dream of creating electronic devices ...
General Physics
May 9, 2016
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A team of researchers, led by a group at the University of California, Riverside, have demonstrated for the first time the transmission of electrical signals through insulators in a sandwich-like structure, a development ...
General Physics
Mar 2, 2016
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An international group of physicists, including Aleksandr Golubov, head of the MIPT Laboratory of Topological Quantum Phenomena in Superconductor Systems, recently presented results of experiments testing a new phenomenon ...
Superconductivity
Sep 16, 2015
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Researchers at the University of Groningen, Utrecht University, the Université de Bretagne Occidentale and the FOM Foundation have found that it is possible to make an electric circuit with a magnetic insulator. This was ...
General Physics
Sep 14, 2015
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(Phys.org)—A team of researchers with members from Stanford University and several institutions in China is claiming to have found a way to create a sample of stanene—a one-atom thick mesh (buckled honeycomb) of tin that ...
Sebastian Huber and his colleagues show that the road from abstract theory to practical applications needn't always be very long. Their mechanical implementation of a quantum mechanical phenomenon could soon be used for soundproofing ...
Quantum Physics
Jul 2, 2015
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New work from Carnegie's Russell Hemley and Ivan Naumov hones in on the physics underlying the recently discovered fact that some metals stop being metallic under pressure. Their work is published in Physical Review Letters.
Condensed Matter
Apr 22, 2015
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Today, we're surrounded by a variety of electronic devices that are moving increasingly closer to us - we can attach and wear them, or even implant electronics inside our bodies.
Nanophysics
Jan 13, 2015
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Spintronics is an emerging field of technology where devices work by manipulating the spin of electrons rather than their charge. The field can bring significant advantages to computer technology, combining higher speeds ...
Condensed Matter
Oct 12, 2014
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