An ordered route to improved solar cell performance
Reliable processing of an efficient solar cell material depends on how the solvent is removed.
Jan 10th, 2017
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Magnetic discovery could be tip of the 'ice'berg
A new material, called 'rewritable magnetic charge ice', has an unprecedented degree of control over local magnetic fields. The artificial, magnetically charged structure is formed by manipulating local magnetic charges that set the state of the magnetic 'bits'.
Jan 10th, 2017
Read more2D materials enhance a 3D world
Researchers seek to improve optoelectronic devices by adding a 2D layer of molybdenum disulfide to an organic semiconductor, which has similar absorption strengths as molybdenum disulfide.
Jan 10th, 2017
Read moreGiving friction the slip with new carbon nanofilms
Self-healing diamond-like carbon coating could revolutionize lubrication.
Jan 9th, 2017
Read moreResearchers create practical and versatile microscopic optomechanical device
Trapping light and mechanical waves within a tiny bullseye, design could enable more sensitive motion detection.
Jan 9th, 2017
Read moreAdvancing GaN-on-Silicon for scalable high electron mobility transistors
Researchers have advanced gallium nitride (GaN)-on-silicon transistor technology by optimizing the composition of the semiconductor layers that make up the device. The team created the high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) structure on a 200 mm silicon substrate with a process that will scale to larger industry-standard wafer sizes.
Jan 9th, 2017
Read moreLining up for new high-density memory devices
Unique magnetic coupling found in vertically aligned nanocomposite films shrink devices and let them withstand higher temperatures.
Jan 9th, 2017
Read moreThe origin of ultrahigh piezoelectric response
An international team of scientists may have solved the 30-year-old riddle of why certain ferroelectric crystals exhibit extremely strong piezoelectric responses.
Jan 9th, 2017
Read moreLight strikes gold
Scientists advance the precision controlled synthesis of gold nanocrystals, which could create new catalysts that improve industrial energy efficiency.
Jan 9th, 2017
Read moreEfficient nanowire solution for a big-name pollutant
Researchers designed an extremely efficient catalytic system to remove carbon monoxide.
Jan 9th, 2017
Read moreNanoparticle catalysts outperform single metal atoms
Scientists have determined that the active sites for two reactions involving carbon dioxide (carbon monoxide oxidation and water-gas shift) are associated with small platinum particles and not single platinum atoms as previously proposed.
Jan 9th, 2017
Read morePorous, 3-D forms of graphene 10 times as strong as steel but much lighter
Researchers have designed one of the strongest lightweight materials known, by compressing and fusing flakes of graphene, a two-dimensional form of carbon. The new material, a sponge-like configuration with a density of just 5 percent, can have a strength 10 times that of steel.
Jan 6th, 2017
Read moreSturdy skyrmions stack up
A new form of low-power computing that uses miniscule magnetic whirlpools to store and process data is a step closer to becoming a reality.
Jan 6th, 2017
Read morePhysicists solve decades-old scientific mystery of negative differential resistance
Device showing backwards electrical behavior enables faster, cheaper, smaller electronic devices.
Jan 5th, 2017
Read moreCaptured on video: DNA nanotubes build a bridge between 2 molecular posts
In a microscopic feat that resembled a high-wire circus act, researchers have coaxed DNA nanotubes to assemble themselves into bridge-like structures arched between two molecular landmarks on the surface of a lab dish.
Jan 5th, 2017
Read moreNew microscope chemically identifies micron-sized particles
Low-cost spectroscopy technique could allow detection of microscopic amounts of chemicals for applications in security, law enforcement and research.
Jan 5th, 2017
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