Scientists studying high temperature superconductors-materials that carry electric current with no energy loss when cooled below a certain temperature-have been searching for ways to study in detail the electron interactions ...
General Physics
Dec 20, 2016
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It may be unwise to judge a book by its cover, but you can tell a lot about a material from the outermost electrons in its atoms.
General Physics
Nov 21, 2016
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Next-generation solar cells made of super-thin films of semiconducting material hold promise because they're relatively inexpensive and flexible enough to be applied just about anywhere.
Condensed Matter
Nov 15, 2016
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An HZB team has developed a new approach to conduct photoemission spectroscopy of molecules in solution. This has been difficult up to now because the sample needed to be situated in vacuum—but liquids evaporate.
Materials Science
Oct 19, 2016
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Some three-dimensional materials can exhibit exotic properties that only exist in "lower" dimensions. For example, in one-dimensional chains of atoms that emerge within a bulk sample, electrons can separate into three distinct ...
General Physics
Jun 2, 2016
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Tunnelling ionization studies by researchers in Japan and Russia show changes in electron distributions between ground- and excited-state in laser tunnelling ionization of molecules.
General Physics
May 10, 2016
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Nobody wants a laptop computer that stops working when a cloud passes by. Storing sunlight as fuel that can be later used to drive fuel cells requires new materials. Scientists demonstrated such a material. They combined ...
Materials Science
Mar 3, 2016
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Researchers have succeeded in using the immensely powerful X-ray pulses from the free electron laser (XFEL) facility SACLA to investigate excited-state induced transient lattice dynamics on sub-picosecond time scales in phase-change ...
Nanophysics
Feb 22, 2016
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In what may provide a potential path to processing information in a quantum computer, researchers have switched an intrinsic property of electrons from an excited state to a relaxed state on demand using a device that served ...
Quantum Physics
Feb 15, 2016
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Organic photovoltaic material offers great promise for solar energy. The semi-conducting plastic is lightweight, flexible, relatively inexpensive, and easy to make. The problem is that, unlike inorganic photovoltaic material, ...
Materials Science
Oct 2, 2015
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