A tiny camera lens, invented by an international research team led by the Australian National University (ANU), could one day be used to link quantum computers to an optical fiber network. The lens is made of a silicon film with millions of nanost...
Sep 17, 2018
Veeco Instruments Inc. has announced that its dual chamber GEN10 automated molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) cluster system won the tender offer by the Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics (MPI-MSP) to support world-class research on complex ...
Sep 17, 2018
Leveraging advances in mRNA and nanotechnology, researchers demonstrate that tumor suppressor PTEN can be restored in preclinical models of prostate cancer.
Sep 17, 2018
Nonlinear effect could drive extremely fast nanoelectronics The post ‘Vaporized’ electrons in graphene boost signals into the terahertz range appeared first on Physics World.
Sep 17, 2018
Transforming light into electricity is no mean feat. Some devices, like solar cells, use a closed circuit to generate an electric current from incoming light. But another class of materials, called photocathodes, generate large quantities of free ...
Sep 17, 2018
Graphene comes up big to increase the lifetime of photocathodes, which convert light to electricity in accelerators and other physics experiments.
Sep 17, 2018
Graphene comes up big to increase the lifetime of photocathodes, which convert light to electricity in accelerators and other physics experiments.
Sep 17, 2018
Physicist Richard Feynman highlighted the importance of fluctuations in living matter when he stated, "Everything that living things do can be understood in terms of the jigglings and wigglings of atoms." This holds true for the widely i...
Sep 17, 2018
Researchers have used thin sheets of graphene to prevent photocathode materials from interacting with air, which increases their lifetimes. Photocathodes are used to convert light to electricity in accelerators and other physics experiments.
Sep 17, 2018
Large crystals growing in water often form from tiny nanocrystals continually attaching together. During attachment, these tiny particles snap to the surface, like LEGO bricks. A bit of torque is needed to rotate the particles into position for at...
Sep 17, 2018
