A research team at the University of Pennsylvania has demonstrated a metamaterial device that can function as an analog computer. Such processing typically requires complex systems of bulky optical elements like lenses, filters, and mirrors. The r...
Mar 27, 2019
Organic photovoltaics have achieved remarkably high efficiencies, but finding optimum combinations of materials for high-performance organic solar cells, which are also economically competitive, still presents a challenge. Researchers from the Uni...
Mar 27, 2019
A joint Swansea-Hamburg research team has discovered that miniature nanoclusters of metal atoms—such as silver and gold—possess properties that enable them to be used as semiconductors....
Mar 27, 2019
A team of scientists from Waseda University in Tokyo and Rigaku Corporation has discovered a new type of organic crystal structural phase transition called the photo-triggered phase transition. Hideko Koshima, a visiting professor at Waseda's...
Mar 27, 2019
The Department of Mechanical Engineering of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) has recently developed an electrostatically charged nanofiber filter with multiple separator layers, which can capture pollutant particles that are below 100 ...
Mar 27, 2019
Nanoparticles with specific emission spectra provide a stepping stone towards labelling multiple proteins for electron microscopy The post Nine nanoparticles for multicolour electron microscopy appeared first on Physics World.
Mar 27, 2019
Researchers from the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) and Utrecht University have formed a strong protocol for nanoscale chemical imaging with the help of tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (TERS), as...
Mar 27, 2019
Researchers developed an electrostatically charged nanofiber filter with multiple separator layers, which can capture pollutant particles that are below 100 nm in diameter. The novel nanofiber filter demonstrates better performance in terms of bre...
Mar 27, 2019
If you use a smartphone, laptop, or tablet, then you benefit from research in photonics, the study of light. At the University of Delaware, a team led by Tingyi Gu, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, is developing cutti...
Mar 27, 2019
Researchers have engineered a silicon-graphene device that can transmit radiofrequency waves in less than a picosecond at a sub-terahertz bandwidth.
Mar 27, 2019
