Scientists created the first diamond x-ray micro lens
The thinner-than-human-hair lenses may be used for in the most powerful synchrotrons and x-ray lasers.
Mar 3rd, 2020
Read moreThe thinner-than-human-hair lenses may be used for in the most powerful synchrotrons and x-ray lasers.
Mar 3rd, 2020
Read moreThrough a technique known as DNA origami, scientists have created the fastest, most persistent DNA nano motor yet. The findings provide a blueprint for how to optimize the design of motors at the nanoscale.
Mar 3rd, 2020
Read morePrecision measurements can aid understanding of disease, infection and vaccines.
Mar 3rd, 2020
Read moreResearchers have developed a wearable technology that can hide its wearer from heat-detecting sensors such as night vision goggles, even when the ambient temperature changes - a feat that current state of the art technology cannot match.
Mar 3rd, 2020
Read moreA new process makes it possible for the first time to manufacture large quantities of materials whose structure is designed at a nanometer scale - the size of DNA's double helix.
Mar 3rd, 2020
Read moreBreakthrough discovery pushes limits of microscopy to improve efficiency of fuel and plastic production.
Mar 3rd, 2020
Read moreScientists report fabricating and testing a superconducting nanowire device applicable to high-speed photon counting for nuclear physics experiments that were previously thought impossible. This device operates at temperatures near to absolute zero in magnetic fields forty times stronger than previous such devices and is able to detect low-energy photons as well as other fundamental particles.
Mar 3rd, 2020
Read moreResearchers have put a new technique based on machine learning to work uncovering the secrets of buried interfaces and edges in a material. By using machine learning as an image processing technique, scientists can dramatically accelerate the heretofore laborious manual process of quantitatively looking at interfaces without having to sacrifice accuracy.
Mar 3rd, 2020
Read moreResearchers have successfully combined graphene with tandem perovskite-silicon solar cells to achieve efficiencies of up to 26.3%. Moreover, they envisioned a new manufacturing method that, thanks to the versatility of graphene, allows to reduce production costs and could lead to the production of large-area solar panels.
Mar 3rd, 2020
Read moreScientists have succeeded in taking repeated measurements of the spin of an electron in a silicon quantum dot, without changing the spin in the process. This type of 'non-demolition' measurement is important for creating quantum computers that are fault tolerant.
Mar 2nd, 2020
Read moreResearchers have revealed that the possibilities created by stacking two sheets of atomically thin material atop each other at a twist are even greater than expected.
Mar 2nd, 2020
Read moreAn international team of researchers has demonstrated that the Berry curvature - an important property of quantum materials - can be imaged with chiral light.
Mar 2nd, 2020
Read morePhycsicists for the first time have experimentally observed spin centers in two-dimensional materials. Such centers can act as quantum bits - even at room temperature.
Mar 2nd, 2020
Read moreUltrafast, multidimensional spectroscopy unlocks macroscopic-scale effects of quantum electronic correlations. Researchers found that low-energy and high energy states are correlated in a layered, superconducting material LSCO (lanthanum, strontium, copper, oxygen).
Mar 2nd, 2020
Read moreIn nature, viruses use nanocages to protect their genome. Some of these viruses can be disassembled into protein units to remove their genome. These protein units can then be reassembled into nanocages by other templates, the so-called virus-like particles.
Feb 28th, 2020
Read moreResearchers have created stretchable OLEDs (Organic Light-Emitting Diodes) that are compliant and maintain their performance under high-strain deformation. Their stress-relief substrates have a unique structure and utilize pillar arrays to reduce the stress on the active areas of devices when strain is applied.
Feb 28th, 2020
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