How do you bring together two molecules that positively repel each other? A research team has developed a simple and versatile solution: Introduce an electron with a jolt of electricity, and resistance between the two is reduced and a bond formed....
Mar 18, 2022
Chris Own likes to quote Lord Kelvin, one of the fathers of thermodynamics. "When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it,"...
Mar 18, 2022
Phase-change nanowires could serve as the ultimate tunable frequency synthesizers and filters for the future of IoT and 5G networks.
Mar 18, 2022
Semiconductor materials producer Soitec will establish a fabrication facility at its headquarters in Bernin, France. The facility will be used to produce Soitec’s SmartSic wafers developed at the Substrate Innovation Center at CEA-Leti, using Soit...
Mar 18, 2022
Carbon exhibits a remarkable tendency to form nanomaterials with unusual physical and chemical properties, arising from its ability to engage in different bonding states.
Mar 18, 2022
Over the past week, The Institute has made contact with some of the 400 members of the IEEE Ukraine Section to help them share their experiences during the war. This personal account, entitled “Real War,” was written by Hanna Porieva, an associat...
Mar 17, 2022
Using Google’s Sycamore quantum processor, scientists have performed the largest chemistry simulations that involve quantum computers to date. They employed a new technique that may help resist the noise often seen in quantum circuits.Quantum com...
Mar 17, 2022
MIT physicists have detected electron correlations in a 2D material called ABC trilayer graphene. Understanding how electron correlations drive electrical states can help scientists engineer exotic functional materials, such as unconventional supe...
Mar 17, 2022
Carbon exhibits a remarkable tendency to form nanomaterials with unusual physical and chemical properties, arising from its ability to engage in different bonding states. Many of these "next-generation" nanomaterials, which include nanod...
Mar 17, 2022
In recent years, physicists have discovered materials that are able to switch their electrical character from a metal to an insulator, and even to a superconductor, which is a material in a friction-free state that allows electrons to flow with ze...
Mar 17, 2022
