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The rise of phosphorene analogue optoelectronic materials

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Black phosphorus (BP or phosphorene), a novel two-dimensional semiconducting material, has gained tremendous attention because of its intriguing properties, such as ON/OFF ratio, high carrier mobility, and tunable direct band. However, a fundament...

Sep 13, 2018

The rise of phosphorene analogue optoelectronic materials

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Black phosphorus (BP or phosphorene), a novel two-dimensional semiconducting material, has gained tremendous attention because of its intriguing properties, such as ON/OFF ratio, high carrier mobility, and tunable direct band. However, a fundament...

Sep 13, 2018

The rise of phosphorene analogue optoelectronic materials

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Black phosphorus (BP or phosphorene), a novel two-dimensional semiconducting material, has gained tremendous attention because of its intriguing properties, such as ON/OFF ratio, high carrier mobility, and tunable direct band. However, a fundament...

Sep 13, 2018

Laser sintering optimized for printed electronics

EurekAlert   -   Scientific News Websites

Printed electronics use standard printing techniques to manufacture electronic devices on different substrates like glass, plastic films, and paper. Interest in this area is growing because of the potential to create cheaper circuits more efficien...

Sep 13, 2018

Researchers managed to prevent the disappearing of quantum information

EurekAlert   -   Scientific News Websites

The properties of quantum mechanics can be utilized, for example, in technology and encrypting messages, but the disadvantage is the occasional disappearing of information. For the first time, a research group consisting of Finnish and Chinese sci...

Sep 13, 2018

Russian and German physicists developed a mathematical model of trapped atoms and ions

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Physicists from RUDN, JINR (Dubna), and the University of Hamburg (Germany) developed a mathematical model for describing physical processes in hybrid systems that consists of atoms and ions cooled down to temperatures close to absolute zero. Such...

Sep 13, 2018

Tiny camera lens may help link quantum computers to network

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An international team of researchers led by The Australian National University (ANU) has invented a tiny camera lens, which may lead to a device that links quantum computers to an optical fibre network.

Sep 13, 2018

Diamond nanofilm slashes power for magnetic sensors eeNews Europe

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Engineers at UC Berkeley in the US have used diamond dust to create a device that dramatically reduces the energy needed to power magnetic field detectors.Each time today's diamond-based sensors measure a magnetic field, they must firs...

Sep 12, 2018

Natural Color-Generating Mechanism May Inspire Biophotonic Apps

Photonics Media   -   Scientific News Websites

Researchers from Yale-NUS College and the University of Fribourg have discovered a color-generation mechanism in nature, which if harnessed, could potentially be used to create screen displays that project the same image when viewed from any angle...

Sep 12, 2018

Plastic MEMS promises pervasive ultrasound imaging

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With the aim to make ultrasound transducers more affordable for the medical market, researchers from the University of British Columbia have designed capacitive micromachined ultrasound transducers (CMUTs) out of polymer instead of traditio...

Sep 12, 2018

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