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Half diamond, half cubic boron, all cutting business

Researchers combine diamond and cubic boron nitride with a novel alloying process for a superhard material.

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Silicon nanoparticle is a new candidate for an ultrafast all-optical transistor

Physicists have experimentally demonstrated the feasibility of designing an optical analog of a transistor based on a single silicon nanoparticle.

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Nano-dunes with the ion beam

Researchers have demonstrated a method for self-organization of nanostructured arrays via broad ion beam irradiation.

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Researchers create super-stretchable metallic conductors for flexible electronics

The discovery could lead to dramatic improvements and addresses one of the biggest challenges in flexible electronics, an industry still in its infancy with applications such as bendable batteries, robotic skins, wearable monitoring devices and sensors, and connected fabrics.

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Novel efficient and low-cost semitransparent perovskite solar cells with graphene electrodes

The new technology has power conversion efficiencies of around 12% when they are illuminated from fluorine-doped tin oxide bottom electrodes or the graphene top electrodes, compared with 7% of conventional semitransparent solar cells.

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First superconducting graphene created

Physicists have been able to create the first ever superconducting graphene sample by coating it with lithium atoms.

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Encapsulation layers keep carbon nanotube transistors stable in open air

Until now, researchers have also struggled to create a carbon nanotube-based integrated circuit in which the transistors are spatially uniform across the material, which is needed for the overall system to work.

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Improved stability of electron spins in qubits

Calculation with electron spins in a quantum computer assumes that the spin states last for a sufficient period of time. Physicists have now demonstrated that electron exchange in quantum dots fundamentally limits the stability of this information.

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Researchers use laser to levitate, glowing nanodiamonds in vacuum

Work represents first step towards a levitated system combining optical, spin and mechanical degrees of freedom.

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Studying nanoparticles one at a time

Researchers have developed a new way to study nanoparticles one at a time, and have discovered that individual particles that may seem identical in fact can have very different properties. The results may prove to be important when developing new materials or applications such as hydrogen sensors for fuel cell cars.

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Shedding light on the era of Dark silicon

We will soon live in an era where perhaps more than 80 per cent of computer processors' transistors must be powered off and 'remain dark' at any time to prevent the chip from overheating. Researchers are racing against time to find smart solutions to the rapidly advancing era of 'dark silicon'.

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Carbon nanotubes open new path toward quantum information technologies

The ability to generate single photons on demand holds the key to realization of such a communication scheme. By demonstrating that incorporation of pristine single-walled carbon nanotubes into a silicon dioxide matrix could lead to creation of solitary oxygen dopant state capable of fluctuation-free, room-temperature single photon emission, researchers revealed a new path toward on-demand single photon generation.

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