Several international scientists from over 30 universities and institutes teamed to investigate to what extent quantum simulations of material properties agree when they are performed by different researchers and with different software.
Apr 25th, 2016
Read moreRadiation pressure is produced by the momentum carried by light, and it plays a crucial role in a variety of systems, from atomic to astronomical scales.
Apr 25th, 2016
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Researchers demonstrate that rectification ratios of greater than 250 at biases of 0.5 V are achievable at the two-molecule limit for donor-acceptor bilayers of pentacene on C60 on Cu using scanning tunneling spectroscopy and microscopy.
Apr 22nd, 2016
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Scientists studying an exotic material have found a potential application for its unusual properties, a discovery that could improve devices found in most digital electronics.
Apr 22nd, 2016
Read moreThe discovery could be used to make infrared color televisions.
Apr 22nd, 2016
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Neutron scattering and computational modeling have revealed unique and unexpected behavior of water molecules under extreme confinement that is unmatched by any known gas, liquid or solid states.
Apr 22nd, 2016
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Researchers have uncovered a way to overcome a principal obstacle in using two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors in electronic and optoelectronic devices.
Apr 22nd, 2016
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Researchers were able for the first time to observe the defects as these formed during deposition and under what conditions they self-healed by using in-situ X-ray diffraction and fluorescence analysis.
Apr 22nd, 2016
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Scientists have developed a photo-switchable molecule as a basis of an oxygen-independent method.
Apr 22nd, 2016
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With the aid of terahertz radiation, Munich physicists have developed a method for generating and controlling ultrashort electron pulses. With further improvements, this technique should be capable of capturing even electrons in motion.
Apr 22nd, 2016
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In a proof-of-principle experiment, researchers have demonstrated that a small group of individual atoms placed very precisely in silicon can act as a quantum simulator, mimicking nature - in this case, the weird quantum interactions of electrons in materials.
Apr 22nd, 2016
Read moreResearchers use common table salt as growth template.
Apr 22nd, 2016
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Light propagating in a layer of scattering nanoparticles, shows the principle of diffusion. The deeper light is penetrating into the layer, the lower the energy density. Scientists managed to turn this falling diffusion curve into a rising one, by manipulating the incident light.
Apr 22nd, 2016
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Researchers achieve real-time single molecule electronic DNA sequencing at single-base resolution using a protein nanopore array - a future platform for precision medicine.
Apr 21st, 2016
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New way of building supercapacitor-battery electrodes eliminates interference from inactive components.
Apr 21st, 2016
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The microscopic world is governed by the rules of quantum mechanics, where the properties of a particle can be completely undetermined and yet strongly correlated with those of other particles. Physicists have observed these so-called Bell correlations for the first time between hundreds of atoms.
Apr 21st, 2016
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