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Crystal Light: New Family of Light-Converting Materials Points to Cheaper, More Efficient Solar Power and LEDs
Jan. 29, 2015 — Engineers have shone new light on an emerging family of solar-absorbing materials that could clear the way for cheaper and more efficient solar panels and LEDs. The materials, called perovskites, are ... full story -
Generating Mobius Strips of Light
Jan. 29, 2015 — Physicists have experimentally produced Möbius strips from the polarization of light, confirming a theoretical prediction that it is possible for light's electromagnetic field to assume this ... full story -
Nanomedicines of the Future Will Build on Quantum Chemistry
Jan. 29, 2015 — Quantum chemical calculations have been used to solve big mysteries in space. Soon the same calculations may be used to produce tomorrow’s cancer drugs, experts ... full story -
Could a New Proposed Particle Help to Detect Dark Matter?
Jan. 29, 2015 — Researchers have proposed a new fundamental particle which could explain why no one has managed to detect 'Dark Matter', the elusive missing 85 per cent of the Universe's mass. Dark ... full story -
Spiky 'Hedgehog Particles' for Safer Paints, Fewer VOC Emissions
Jan. 28, 2015 — A new process that can sprout microscopic spikes on nearly any type of particle may lead to more environmentally friendly paints and a variety of other ... full story -
Demystifying Nanocrystal Solar Cells
Jan. 28, 2015 — Researchers have developed a comprehensive model to explain how electrons flow inside new types of solar cells made of tiny crystals. The model allows for a better understanding of such cells and may ... full story -
Researchers Use Sound to Slow Down, Speed Up, and Block Light
Jan. 28, 2015 — How do you make an optical fiber transmit light only one way? Researchers have experimentally demonstrated, for the first time, the phenomenon of Brillouin Scattering Induced Transparency (BSIT), ... full story -
Nanoscale Mirrored Cavities Amplify, Connect Quantum Memories
Jan. 28, 2015 — Constructing tiny "mirrors" to trap light increases the efficiency with which photons can pick up and transmit information about electronic spin states -- which is essential for scaling up ... full story -
Researchers Tune Friction in Ionic Solids at the Nanoscale
Jan. 27, 2015 — New experiments have uncovered a way of controlling friction on ionic surfaces at the nanoscale using electrical stimulation and ambient water ... full story -
New Pathway to Valleytronics: Femtosecond Laser Used to Manipulate Valley Excitons
Jan. 27, 2015 — Researchers have uncovered a promising new pathway to valleytronics, a potential quantum computing technology in which information is coded based on the wavelike motion of electrons moving through ... full story -
The Laser Pulse That Gets Shorter All by Itself
Jan. 27, 2015 — A new method of creating ultra short laser pulses has been created: Just by sending a pulse through a cleverly designed fiber, it can be compressed by a factor of ... full story -
Researchers Make Magnetic Graphene
Jan. 26, 2015 — Graphene has many desirable properties. Magnetism alas is not one of them. Magnetism can be induced in graphene by doping it with magnetic impurities, but this tends to disrupt graphene's ... full story -
Visualizing Interacting Electrons in a Molecule
Jan. 26, 2015 — Scientists have succeeded in directly imaging how electrons interact within a single molecule. Understanding this kind of electronic effects in organic molecules is crucial for their use in ... full story -
Entanglement on a Chip: Breakthrough Promises Secure Communications and Faster Computers
Jan. 26, 2015 — A team of scientists has developed, for the first time, a microscopic component that is small enough to fit onto a standard silicon chip that can generate a continuous supply of entangled ... full story -
Infrared Imaging Technique Operates at High Temperatures
Jan. 23, 2015 — A research team took advantage of superlattice architecture and new materials to develop a detector that does not require low temperatures to ... full story -
Cherenkov Emissions Provide Investigators Real-Time Tool for Quality Assurance in Radiation Therapy
Jan. 23, 2015 — Using a simple camera and water tank, investigators demonstrated that induced Cherenkov light can be imaged and used to confirm that the complex spatial dose distribution imparted in dynamic ... full story -
Scientists Set Quantum Speed Limit
Jan. 22, 2015 — The flip side of Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, the energy time uncertainty principle, establishes a speed limit for transitions between two states. Physical chemists have now proved this ... full story -
Exotic, Gigantic Molecules Fit Inside Each Other Like Russian Nesting Dolls
Jan. 22, 2015 — Scientists have experimentally observed for the first time a phenomenon in ultracold, three-atom molecules predicted by Russian theoretical physicist Vitaly Efimov in ... full story -
Wild West Physics: Bridging the Gap Between the Study of 'Outer Space' and 'Inner Space'
Jan. 22, 2015 — The next frontier in physics may require teeny-tiny answers to big questions, and vice versa. Call it macro-micro physics: the study of the huge paired with the study of the very, very ... full story -
Is Glass a True Solid? New Research Suggests It Is
Jan. 22, 2015 — Does glass ever stop flowing? Researchers have combined computer simulation and information theory, originally invented for telephone communication and cryptography, to answer this puzzling ... full story
- Crystal light: New family of light-converting materials points to cheaper, more efficient solar power and LEDs
- Generating Mobius strips of light
- Nanomedicines of the future will build on quantum chemistry
- Could a new proposed particle help to detect Dark Matter?
- Spiky 'hedgehog particles' for safer paints, fewer VOC emissions
- Demystifying nanocrystal solar cells
- Researchers use sound to slow down, speed up, and block light
- Nanoscale mirrored cavities amplify, connect quantum memories
- Researchers tune friction in ionic solids at the nanoscale
- New pathway to valleytronics: Femtosecond laser used to manipulate valley excitons
- The laser pulse that gets shorter all by itself
- Researchers make magnetic graphene
- Visualizing interacting electrons in a molecule
- Entanglement on a chip: Breakthrough promises secure communications and faster computers
- Infrared imaging technique operates at high temperatures
- Cherenkov emissions provide investigators real-time tool for quality assurance in radiation therapy
- Scientists set quantum speed limit
- Exotic, gigantic molecules fit inside each other like Russian nesting dolls
- Wild west physics: Bridging the gap between the study of 'outer space' and 'inner space'
- Is glass a true solid? New research suggests it is
- Graphene brings quantum effects to electronic circuits
- Individual protons and neutrons in atomic nuclei do not behave according to predictions
- New method to generate arbitrary optical pulses
- Nano-beaker offers insight into the condensation of atoms
- Graphene enables all-electrical control of energy flow from light emitters
- New signal amplification process set to transform communications, imaging, computing
- Atoms can be in two places at the same time
- A contractile gel that stores light energy
- Making waves with lasers could enhance solar cell efficiency
- New laser could upgrade the images in tomorrow's technology
- Self-destructive effects of magnetically-doped ferromagnetic topological insulators
- New composite protects from corrosion from high mechanical stress
- Shining a light on quantum dots measurement
- Rice-sized laser, powered one electron at a time, bodes well for quantum computing
- Physicists detect 'charge instability' across all flavors of copper-based superconductors
- Physicists observe light-matter interaction of two atoms for the first time
- Improved interface for a quantum internet
- Race of the electrons: Laser pulses can be used to track the motion of electrons in metals with attosecond precision
- Laser-induced graphene 'super' for electronics: Flexible, 3-D supercapacitors tested
- A new step towards using graphene in electronic applications
- Wonder material silicene still stands just out of reach
- Physicist makes the case for studying the strong nuclear force
- New superconducting hybrid crystals
- Water, water, everywhere: Controlling the properties of nanomaterials
- Solar cell polymers with multiplied electrical output
- From the bottom up: Manipulating nanoribbons at the molecular level
- Toward quantum chips: Packing single-photon detectors on an optical chip is crucial for quantum-computational circuits
- From the lab to your digital device, quantum dots have made quantum leaps
- Shedding light on why blue LEDS are so tricky to make
- New light shed on electron spin flips
- Doing more with less: Steering a quantum path to improved internet security
- Electromagnetic waves linked to particle fallout in Earth's atmosphere, new study finds
- Acoustic levitation made simple
- Atoms queue up for quantum computer networks
- Microscopy reveals how atom-high steps impede oxidation of metal surfaces
- New half-light half-matter quantum particles created
- A qubit candidate shines brighter
- How electrons split: New evidence of exotic behaviors
- Hunt for Big Bang particles offering clues to the origin of the universe
- Graphene 'cut and paste' with microwaves
- Hands on: Crafting ultrathin color coatings
- Universality of charge order in cuprate superconductors
- Piezoelectricity in a 2-D semiconductor: Piezoelectricity in molybdenum disulfide holds promise for future MEMS
- Quantum world without queues could lead to better solar cells
- Quantum physics just got less complicated: Wave-particle duality and quantum uncertainty are same thing
- Glimpsing pathway of sunlight to electricity
- Physicists characterize electronic, magnetic structure in transition metal oxides
- Creation of 'rocker' protein opens way for new smart molecules in medicine, other fields
- Revealing the quantum geometry of the graphene lattice
- Crown ethers flatten in graphene for strong, specific binding
- Choreography of an electron pair
- Ultrafast imaging of complex systems in 3-D at near atomic resolution nears
- Microscopy pencils patterns in polymers at the nanoscale
- The simplest element: Turning hydrogen into 'graphene'
- Scientists trace nanoparticles from plants to caterpillars: Are nanoparticles getting in our food?
- Exact solution to model Big Bang and quark gluon plasma
- Researchers generate tunable photon-pair spectrum using room-temperature quantum optics silicon chip
- Is the Higgs Boson a piece of the matter-antimatter puzzle?
- Mathematicians prove the Umbral Moonshine Conjecture
- Control of shape of light particles opens the way to 'quantum internet'
- Scientists measure speedy electrons in silicon
- Researchers detect possible signal from dark matter
- Stacking two-dimensional materials may lower cost of semiconductor devices
- New way to plug 'leaky' light cavities demonstrated
- Physicists explain puzzling particle collisions
- Theory details how 'hot' monomers affect thin-film formation
- Where are the helium atoms in the molecule? As in a cloud
- Defects are perfect in laser-induced graphene
- Scientists resolve spin puzzle
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