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Perfect imperfection: Electrode defects boost resistive memory efficiency

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Resistive switching memory devices offer several advantages over the currently used computer memory technology. Researchers from the MIPT Atomic Layer Deposition Lab have joined forces with colleagues from Korea to study the impact of electrode su...

Nov 23, 2020

Controlling fully integrated nanodiamonds

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Physicists at Münster University have succeeded in fully integrating nanodiamonds into nanophotonic circuits and at the same time addressing several of these nanodiamonds optically. The study creates the basis for future applications in the field ...

Nov 23, 2020

Vibrational encounters - phonon polaritons meet molecules

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Researchers from CIC nanoGUNE BRTA (San Sebastian, Spain), in collaboration with the Donostia International Physics Center (San Sebastián, Spain) and the University of Oviedo (Spain) employed a spectroscopic nanoimaging technique to study how infr...

Nov 23, 2020

Understanding frustration could lead to better drugs

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Atom-scale models of proteins that incorporate ligands, like drug molecules, shows a strong correlation between minimally frustrated binding sites and drug specificity. Such models could lead to better-designed drugs with fewer side effects.

Nov 23, 2020

Strain engineering of 2D semiconductor and graphene

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Strain engineering can significantly manipulate the two-dimensional (2D) materials' electronic and optical properties, which endow it the potential applications in optoelectronics and nanophotonics. To summarize recent fascinating work about ...

Nov 23, 2020

Researchers minimize quantum backaction in thermodynamic systems via entangled measurement

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Researchers from University of Science and Technology of China theoretically proved that the backaction can be suppressed to zero in a two qubit system, and conducted the first experiment using entangled collective measurement for minimizing quant...

Nov 23, 2020

Nanotechnology Now - Press Release: Nanosoft releases nanoCAD Plus 20 as a major update

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Nanosoft released nanoCAD Plus 20. This update introduces new exciting features, including drawing comparison, bounding prisms and system variable monitors.

Nov 21, 2020

Nanotechnology Now - Press Release: Improving quantum dot interactions, one layer at a time: Scientists have found a way to control an interaction between quantum dots that could lead to more efficient solar cells

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Osaka City University scientists and colleagues in Japan have found a way to control an interaction between quantum dots that could greatly improve charge transport, leading to more efficient solar ce...

Nov 21, 2020

Nanotechnology Now - Press Release: Staying ahead of the curve with 3D curved graphene

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A team of researchers has amplified 3D graphene's electrical properties by controlling its curvature.

Nov 21, 2020

Breakthrough Material Enables No Electricity Sterilization Will Save Thousands of Lives | NextBigFuture.com

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Optically transparent aerogel is essentially a lightweight foam made of silica, the material of beach sand, and consists mostly of air. It reduces the rate of heat loss by tenfold. This transparent insulating material is bonded onto the top of off...

Nov 21, 2020

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