Scientists have discovered a novel type of resonant nanocavity that serves as a 'jail for photons'. The cavity confines light in all three dimensions (3D) simultaneously by exploiting a surrounding photonic band gap crystal nanostructure as the 3D jail's bars.
Feb 14th, 2019
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Optimized oxides made from common metals use less energy and show the potential of new design approach.
Feb 14th, 2019
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Scientists use implanted silicon ions and electricity to increase the spin time of quantum bits, moving closer to the tech needed for quantum networks.
Feb 14th, 2019
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Researchers introduce a new time-resolved microscopy method that allows them to monitor the trajectories of fast-moving charged particles at unprecedented rates.
Feb 14th, 2019
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Organic semiconductors often fail to meet expectations regarding efficiency and stability. Researchers are now deploying data mining approaches to identify promising organic compounds for the electronics of the future.
Feb 14th, 2019
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Scientists catch details with atomic resolution, potentially helping design systems to use sunlight and water to produce fuels.
Feb 13th, 2019
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Watching electrons sprint between atomically thin layers of material will shed light on the fundamental workings of semiconductors, solar cells and other key technologies.
Feb 13th, 2019
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Particle crowding interferes with moving energy efficiently along promising molecular chains.
Feb 13th, 2019
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In a finding that runs counter to a common assumption in physics, researchers ran a light emitting diode (LED) with electrodes reversed in order to cool another device mere nanometers away.
Feb 13th, 2019
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For the first time, an international team of scientists has recorded the orbitals of single molecules in different charge states in a novel type of microscopy.
Feb 13th, 2019
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Researchers have developed a new and efficient fabrication approach to produce all-inorganic perovskite films with better optical properties and stability, enabling the development of high colour-purity and low-cost perovskite LEDs with a high operational lifetime.
Feb 13th, 2019
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This future technology not only can massively increase the data transmission capacity of data centers, telecommunications companies and network hardware products to come, but do so with high stability, low noise and the energy efficiency of silicon photonics.
Feb 13th, 2019
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A collection of articles on EU-funded research in the field of graphene is now available in free, accessible PDF.
Feb 13th, 2019
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Researchers have developed a sensitive new biosensor that could someday be used to detect fetal Down syndrome DNA in pregnant women's blood.
Feb 13th, 2019
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New process combines 3D laser lithography with microfluidics.
Feb 13th, 2019
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Researchers have shown substantial degradation of these nanoparticles, followed in certain cases by the cells 're-magnetizing'. This phenomenon is the sign of biosynthesis of new magnetic nanoparticles from iron released in the intracellular medium by the degradation of the first nanoparticles.
Feb 13th, 2019
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