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Quantum Tunneling in Graphene Advances the Age of High Speed Terahertz Wireless Communications

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Scientists from MIPT, Moscow Pedagogical State University and the University of Manchester have created a highly sensitive terahertz detector based on the effect of quantum-mechanical... The post Quantum Tunneling in Graphene Advances the Age of ...

Feb 28, 2021

ICYMI: We check out Lenovo’s lightest ThinkPad yet

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This week we spent some time testing Lenovo’s Thinkpad X1 Nano — the company's thinnest and lightest ThinkPad at under two pounds. As usual, slimming things down comes with some trade offs, and Cherlynn Low tells us where the ...

Feb 27, 2021

Nanotechnology Now - Press Release: Nanoparticles help untangle Alzheimer's disease amyloid beta plaques: New research shows that the protein that causes Alzheimer's disease's hallmark brain plaques clings to certain bowl-shaped nanoparticles, allowing researchers to better understand the disease and potentially pr

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Scientists are still a long way from being able to treat Alzheimer's Disease, in part because the protein aggregates that can become brain plaques, a hallmark of the disease, are hard to study. The pl...

Feb 27, 2021

Nanotechnology Now - Press Release: From microsaws to nanodrills: laser pulses act as subtle machining tools: Industrial-grade materials processing on the sub-micron scale is enabled by spatially structured ultrashort laser pulses

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If light is strongly concentrated in time and space, resulting in extreme photon densities, it can enable interaction with all conceivable materials. By using these ultrashort laser foci, even transpa...

Feb 27, 2021

Nanotechnology Now - Press Release: Changing the silkworm's diet to spin stronger silk

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Tohoku University researchers have produced cellulose nanofiber (CNF) synthesized silk naturally through a simple tweak to silkworms' diet. Mixing CNF with commercially available food and feeding the...

Feb 27, 2021

Nanotechnology Now - Press Release: How photoblueing disturbs microscopy

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The latest developments in fluorescence microscopy make it possible to image individual molecules in cells or molecular complexes with a spatial resolution of up to 20 nanometres. However, under certa...

Feb 27, 2021

Plasmonic metasurface gives high-speed optical WiFi a boost – Physics World

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Nanostructured material could find use in detectors for ultrafast optoelectronic applications The post Plasmonic metasurface gives high-speed optical WiFi a boost appeared first on Physics World.

Feb 27, 2021

Artificial “Magnetic Texture” Induced in Graphene – May Lead to Powerful Quantum Computers

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Quantum science advancement could help lead to powerful spintronic devices, such as semiconductors and quantum computers. Graphene is incredibly strong, lightweight, conductive … the list of its superlative properties goes on.

Feb 27, 2021

Engineering the boundary between 2D and 3D materials: Cutting-edge microscope helps reveal ways to control the electronic properties of atomically thin materials.

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For practical applications, two-dimensional materials such as graphene must at some point connect with the ordinary world of 3D materials. Researchers have come up with a way of imaging what goes on at these interfaces, down to the level of indivi...

Feb 26, 2021

On-surface synthesis of graphene molecules and their superlattices

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NUS scientists have devised a new method for the synthesis of nanographene molecules with a high product yield for the development of next generation quantum devices.

Feb 26, 2021

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