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'Exotic' Material Is Like a Switch When Super Thin
Apr. 18, 2014 Researchers have shown how to switch a particular transition metal oxide, a lanthanum nickelate, from a metal to an insulator by making the material less than a nanometer thick. Ever-shrinking ... full story -
Impurity Size Affects Performance of Emerging Superconductive Material
Apr. 18, 2014 Impurities can hurt performance -- or possibly provide benefits -- in a key superconductive material that is expected to find use in a host of applications, including future particle colliders. The ... full story -
Identifying the Complex Growth Process of Strontium Titanate Thin Films
Apr. 16, 2014 Researchers in Japan have achieved the first successful atomic-level observation of growing strontium titanate thin ... full story -
Information Storage for the Next Generation of Plastic Computers: Efficient Conversion from Magnetic Storage to Light Is Key
Apr. 16, 2014 Inexpensive computers, cell phones and other systems that substitute flexible plastic for silicon chips may be one step closer to reality, thanks to new research. Scientists have made a new proposal ... full story -
Quantum Computing? Progress in the Fight Against Quantum Dissipation
Apr. 16, 2014 Scientists have confirmed a 50-year-old, previously untested theoretical prediction in physics and improved the energy storage time of a quantum switch by several orders of magnitude. High-quality ... full story -
Searching for Dark Energy With Neutrons: With Neutrons, Scientists Can Now Look for Dark Energy in the Lab
Apr. 16, 2014 It does not always take a huge accelerator to do particle physics: First results from a low energy, table top alternative takes validity of Newtonian gravity down by five orders of magnitude and ... full story -
Scientists Capture Ultrafast Snapshots of Light-Driven Superconductivity
Apr. 16, 2014 A new study pins down a major factor behind the appearance of superconductivity -- the ability to conduct electricity with 100 percent efficiency -- in a promising copper-oxide material. Scientists ... full story -
Scientists Achieve First Direct Observations of Excitons in Motion
Apr. 16, 2014 A quasiparticle called an exciton -- responsible for the transfer of energy within devices such as solar cells, LEDs, and semiconductor circuits -- has been understood theoretically for decades. But ... full story -
A Small Connection With Big Implications: Wiring Up Carbon-Based Electronics
Apr. 16, 2014 Carbon-based nanostructures such as nanotubes, graphene sheets, and nanoribbons are unique building blocks showing versatile nanomechanical and nanoelectronic properties. These materials which are ... full story -
New Sensor Improves the Level of Efficiency in Detecting Ozone
Apr. 15, 2014 Researchers have developed a more effective ozone sensor than the ones used so far. The new sensor detects this gas faster and in lower amounts. Ozone is present in the atmosphere and it plays a ... full story -
Beam on Target! Cebaf Accelerator Delivered High-Energy Electron Beams
Apr. 14, 2014 Late on April 1, the crown jewel of the Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility sparkled its way into a new era. Following an upgrade of the Continuous Electron ... full story -
House Windows That Double as Solar Panels? Shiny Quantum Dots Brighten Future of Solar Cells
Apr. 14, 2014 A house window that doubles as a solar panel could be on the horizon, thanks to recent quantum-dot work. Scientists have demonstrated that superior light-emitting properties of quantum dots can be ... full story -
New 'Tunable' Semiconductors Will Allow Better Detectors, Solar Cells
Apr. 14, 2014 Researchers have discovered a way to use existing semiconductors to detect a far wider range of light than is now possible, well into the infrared range. The team hopes to use the technology in ... full story -
Novel Technique Opens Door to Better Solar Cells, Superconductors and Hard Drives
Apr. 14, 2014 A new invention solves long-standing mystery in the physics of condensed matter and enhances our understanding of interfaces between ... full story -
Combs of Light Accelerate Communication
Apr. 14, 2014 Miniaturized optical frequency comb sources allow for transmission of data streams of several terabits per second over hundreds of kilometers. The results may contribute to accelerating data ... full story -
New Form of Matter: Exotic Hadron With Two Quarks, Two Anti-Quarks Confirmed
Apr. 11, 2014 Physicists have confirmed the existence of exotic hadrons -- a type of matter that cannot be classified within the traditional quark model. "We've confirmed the unambiguous observation of a ... full story -
Search for Elusive Dark Matter: Looking for Traces by Studying Particles With Low Masses and Interaction Rates
Apr. 11, 2014 The ongoing search for invisible dark matter is a subject of great interest to physicists. Although dark matter has never been seen directly, it is thought to be six times more prevalent in the ... full story -
Nanostructures With Applications in Infrared and Terahertz Ranges
Apr. 11, 2014 Scientists have created a compound semiconductor of nearly perfect quality with embedded nanostructures containing ordered lines of atoms that can manipulate light energy in the mid-infrared range. ... full story -
A Modern Twist on Young's Slits
Apr. 10, 2014 A landmark experiment on wave interference from the early 1800s is revisited using gold nanoparticles. In the eighteenth century, scientists faced a conundrum: is light a wave or a particle? One of ... full story -
Researchers Bolster Development of Programmable Quantum Computers
Apr. 10, 2014 Scientists have performed a proof-of-concept experiment that will aid the future development of programmable quantum computers. In a new study, the researchers describe an experiment that was ... full story
- 'Exotic' material is like a switch when super thin
- Impurity size affects performance of emerging superconductive material
- Identifying the complex growth process of strontium titanate thin films
- Information storage for the next generation of plastic computers: Efficient conversion from magnetic storage to light is key
- Quantum computing? Progress in the fight against quantum dissipation
- Searching for dark energy with neutrons: With neutrons, scientists can now look for dark energy in the lab
- Scientists capture ultrafast snapshots of light-driven superconductivity
- Scientists achieve first direct observations of excitons in motion
- A small connection with big implications: Wiring up carbon-based electronics
- Beam on target! Cebaf accelerator delivered high-energy electron beams
- House windows that double as solar panels? Shiny quantum dots brighten future of solar cells
- New 'tunable' semiconductors will allow better detectors, solar cells
- Novel technique opens door to better solar cells, superconductors and hard drives
- Combs of light accelerate communication
- New form of matter: Exotic hadron with two quarks, two anti-quarks confirmed
- Search for elusive dark matter: Looking for traces by studying particles with low masses and interaction rates
- Nanostructures with applications in infrared and terahertz ranges
- A modern twist on Young's slits
- Researchers bolster development of programmable quantum computers
- Magnetization can surf on the top of a laser-induced sound wave
- Emerging research suggests a new paradigm for 'unconventional superconductors'
- One kind of supersymmetry shown to emerge naturally: Unique phenomenon in condensed matter system
- Scalable, universal quantum computer? Quantum information processed with system comprising optical photon and trapped atom
- New 'switch' could power quantum computing: Light lattice traps atoms, builds networks of quantum information transmitters
- Tiny step edges, big step for surface science
- Novel ultra-fast electrical circuits use light-generated tunneling currents
- Groundbreaking optical device could enhance optical information processing, computers
- Self-assembled silver superlattices create molecular machines with hydrogen-bond 'hinges' and moving 'gears'
- Tracking the transition of early-universe quark soup to matter-as-we-know-it
- To bridge LED green gap, think small ... really small: Nanostructures half a DNA strand-wide show promise for efficient LEDs
- Light-guiding gels provide new avenues for drug detection, delivery
- Quantum computing: Quantum photon properties revealed in another particle -- the plasmon
- Quantum cryptography for mobile phones
- Fermi data tantalize with new clues to dark matter: Gamma rays from center of Milky Way galaxy
- Pocket-size ultrasonic nebulizer employing a novel nozzle improves inhalers
- New insights into quantum dynamics and quantum chaos
- Researchers open path to finding rare, polarized metals
- Strain can alter materials' properties
- Low-cost, highly efficient OLED lighting: Europium complexes emit red light at record efficiency
- Carbon nanotubes grow in combustion flames
- Electrical transmission at atomic level: New approach to building signal processing components from individual atoms
- Nanoparticle trapped with laser light temporarily violates second law of thermodynamics
- Breakthrough in creating invisibility cloaks, stealth technology
- Physicists split and collide ultracold atom clouds using steerable 'optical tweezers'
- Fabricating nanostructures with silk could make clean rooms green rooms
- Rainbow-catching waveguide could revolutionize energy technologies
- Revolutionary solar cells double as lasers
- Ultra-thin light detectors: Metamaterials and quantum cascade structures combined for first time
- Record quantum entanglement of multiple dimensions: Two Schrφdinger cats which could be alive, dead, or in 101 other states simultaneously
- Exploding stars prove Newton's law of gravity unchanged over cosmic time
- Einstein's 'spooky' theory may lead to ultra-secure Internet
- Kelvin wave seen on quantum 'tornado' for first time
- Hunt for an unidentified electron object
- Plugging the hole in Hawking's black hole theory
- Like being inside a star: Simulating high pressures
- Experiment opens the door to multi-party quantum communication
- Engineers design 'living materials': Hybrid materials combine bacterial cells with nonliving elements that emit light
- Unavoidable disorder used to build nanolaser
- Spintronics: Could diamonds be a computer's best friend?
- Basketball: The physics of the 3-point shot
- Now even more likely that there are particles smaller than Higgs out there
- Can you drive fast enough to avoid being clocked by speed cameras?
- Making synthetic diamond crystals in plasma reactor
- Engineering materials for super-efficient nanoelectronics: Potential way to make graphene superconducting
- New control over topological insulator
- Best value for top quark's mass: Tevatron and LHC scientists announces first joint result
- Magnetic behavior discovery could advance nuclear fusion
- Thermal conductance can be controlled like waves using nanostructures
- NIST chips help BICEP2 telescope find direct evidence of origin of the universe
- New window into quantum physics opened with superconductivity in LEDs
- Bright future for protein nanoprobes
- Innovative quantum computer under scrutiny
- Nanotube composites greatly increase efficiency of next generation of solar cells
- Nanoscale optical switch breaks miniaturization barrier
- Graphene-metal sandwich: Combining graphene and copper may shrink electronics
- A brake for spinning molecules: Precise control of rotational temperature of molecular ions for lab-based astrochemistry
- Exchange rate behaves like particles in a molecular fluid
- 'Ultracold' molecules promising for quantum computing, simulation
- Quantum chaos in ultracold gas discovered
- Material rivaling graphene may be mined out of rocks
- Good vibes for catalytic chemistry: A way to make better catalysts for meds, industry and materials
- Colloidal silicon quantum dots: Synthesis and luminescence tuning from the near-UV to the near-IR range
- First thin films of spin ice reveal cold secrets
- Racing cars on walls would be possible, according to student paper
- Signal control with light frequencies
- Quantum physics secures new cryptography scheme
- Acoustic cloaking device hides objects from sound
- Effective thermal camouflage and invisibility device for soldiers created
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