An Arizona State University researcher has made another breakthrough using the rare-earth metal erbium as the gain material for an optical amplifier, this time with an achievement that will enable its use for the first time ...
Optics & Photonics
Aug 1, 2017
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Computers that fit in our pockets, television screens no thicker than a door, and cars only slightly bigger than their passengers, technology is constantly getting smaller. A major reason for this miniaturization is the ...
Nanophysics
Jul 31, 2017
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Scientists from the Swiss Nanoscience Institute and the University of Basel have succeeded in coupling an extremely small quantum dot with 1,000 times larger trumpet-shaped nanowire. The movement of the nanowire can be detected ...
Nanophysics
Jul 14, 2017
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Racetrack memory is a potential next-generation solution for our digital storage devices. However, current experiments using single-layer ferromagnetic nanowires are less efficient than expected. New research published in ...
Nanophysics
Jul 11, 2017
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Most electronic devices currently contain silicon-based chips. Other semiconducting materials show potential, but need further research to become commercially viable. Researchers at KAUST have thoroughly analyzed one such ...
Nanophysics
Jul 3, 2017
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From solar cells that capture more light, to medical devices that resist colonization by bacteria; there are many applications for materials given a bristly coating of silicon nanowires. Creating these nanostructured silicon ...
Materials Science
Jun 28, 2017
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Building transient electronics is usually about doing something to make them stop working: blast them with light, soak them with acid, dunk them in water.
Nanomaterials
Jun 27, 2017
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(Phys.org)—Nanowires fashioned from DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid)—one of several type of molecular nanowires incorporating repeating molecular units—are exactly that: Geometrically wire-like DNA-based nanostructures defined ...
Fuel cells make electricity through chemical reactions. A key reaction is combining oxygen with hydrogen to make water while releasing energy in the form of electrons. The rate of this conversion is typically slow. It requires ...
Materials Science
Jun 8, 2017
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The quest for Majorana particles as building blocks for a future computer is on since the first observation of these particles in Delft in 2012. Due to their physical properties, a quantum bit based on them is protected from ...
Quantum Physics
Jun 6, 2017
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