Femtosecond lasers can be integrated with electron microscopes to directly image transient structures and morphologies in materials in real time and space. In a new report, Xuewen Fu and a team of scientists in condensed matter physics, microsyste...
Oct 12, 2020
A layered material developed by KAUST researchers can act as a precise temperature sensor by exploiting the same principle used in biological ion channels.
Oct 12, 2020
Electrical engineers, computer scientists and biomedical engineers at the University of California, Irvine have created a new lab-on-a-chip
Oct 12, 2020
Researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have developed a method of generating single identical photons on demand, a crucial step in realizing quantum communication. The photon emitter is based on a common 2D semiconductor material (...
Oct 12, 2020
Pulsing liquid alloys for nanomaterials synthesis.
Oct 12, 2020
Making every micrometer count is a key consideration for designers and engineers working on modern smartphones, and a new material could free up some valuable space. Scientists have developed a nanometer-thick form of graphite that helps keep elec...
Oct 12, 2020
A research team led by The Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo demonstrated that hybrid surface waves called surface phonon-polaritons provide enhanced thermal conductivity in nanoscale membranes. These surface waves can aid i...
Oct 12, 2020
A team of researchers at Columbia University and the University of Washington has discovered that a variety of exotic electronic states, including a rare form of magnetism, can arise in a three-layer graphene structure.
Oct 12, 2020
Optical nanoantennas can convert propagating light to local fields. The local-field responses can be engineered to exhibit nontrivial features in spatial, spectral and temporal domains. Local-field in...
Oct 10, 2020
Tiny bubbles can solve large problems. Microbubbles--around 1-50 micrometers in diameter--have widespread applications. They're used for drug delivery, membrane cleaning, biofilm control, and water tr...
Oct 10, 2020
