A team from the Faculty of Physics, MSU together with their foreign colleagues developed a new liquid crystal material with high potential as a basis for brighter, faster, energy saving displays with higher resolution. The ...
Materials Science
Mar 7, 2018
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Light can generate an electrical current in semiconductor materials. This is how solar cells generate electricity from sunlight and how smart phone cameras can take photographs. To collect the generated electrical current, ...
General Physics
Dec 19, 2017
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JILA physicists have for the first time used their spinning molecules technique to measure the "roundness" of the electron, confirming the leading results from another group and suggesting that more precise assessments are ...
General Physics
Oct 10, 2017
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As big data and cloud applications flourish, one of the grand challenges for future computing is finding energy-efficient methods for data storage.
General Physics
Nov 30, 2016
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Ferromagnetic materials, like compass needles, are useful because their magnetic polarization makes them rotate to align with magnetic fields. Ferroelectric materials behave in a similar way but with electric, rather than ...
Materials Science
Jun 27, 2016
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Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a new tool for detecting and measuring the polarization of light based on a single spatial sampling of the light, rather than the multiple samples required by ...
Optics & Photonics
Jun 24, 2016
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Up until recently, researchers thought they had the behaviors of ferroelectric materials mostly figured out.
Condensed Matter
Jun 13, 2016
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Auroras are dimly present throughout the night in polar regions, but sometimes these lights explode in brightness. Now Japanese scientists have unlocked the mystery behind this spectacle, known as auroral breakup.
Space Exploration
Dec 21, 2015
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Today one of the major goals of physicists is to unify the forces of nature into a Grand Unified Theory that could portray a more elegant and comprehensive representation of the Universe. One step towards this big theory ...
General Physics
Nov 12, 2015
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An international group of physicists has traced the origin of an electromagnetic interaction to the Dirac equation, a fundamental equation of quantum physics.
Quantum Physics
Oct 12, 2015
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