Researchers have developed a technique to fabricate high-performance optical microstructures using lithium niobate, opening the door to ultra-efficient integrated photonic circuits, quantum photonics, microwave-to-optical conversion and more.
Dec 21st, 2017
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Researchers have demonstrated for the first time that the magnetic fields of bacterial cells and magnetic nano-objects in liquid can be studied at high resolution using electron microscopy.
Dec 21st, 2017
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Studies by a research team utilizing high-brightness x-rays provide important insight into a key question that has long puzzled scientists, namely, why do nanoparticle gels take so long to form after a quench even though the constituent nanoparticles are rapidly diffusing through the suspension?
Dec 21st, 2017
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Standardized, freely available method raising interest in forensics, agriculture and microbiome studies.
Dec 21st, 2017
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Scientists made a remarkable discovery: Particles known as 'Weyl fermions' were discovered in materials with strong interaction between electrons. Just like light particles, they have no mass but nonetheless they move extremely slowly.
Dec 21st, 2017
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By harnessing the unusual electrical properties of 2D materials such as few-layer black phosphorus and topological Weyl/Dirac semimetal thin films, researchers designed a versatile all-electric-controlled valley filter and demonstrated, for the first time, a concrete working design of valleytronic logic gate capable of performing the full set of two-input Boolean logics.
Dec 21st, 2017
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Researchers have shown that defects in monolayer molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) exhibit electrical switching, providing new insights into the electrical properties of this material.
Dec 21st, 2017
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New research presents a fast, robust and accurate methodology for correlating compound identity to CYP1A2 potency of inhibitors in metabolic mixtures.
Dec 21st, 2017
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Researchers have demonstrated that graphene floating on water does not repel water, as many researchers believe, but rather attracts it.
Dec 21st, 2017
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Physicists link atoms and superconductors in key step towards new hardware for quantum computers and networks.
Dec 21st, 2017
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Nanoscientists have discovered new, better and faster ways to convert energy from light into energetic electrons.
Dec 21st, 2017
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Scientists have developed a nanomedicine platform for cancer that can help doctors know which tissue to cut out as well as kill any malignant cells that can't be surgically removed.
Dec 21st, 2017
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Mechanical engineers predict how seemingly disparate disordered materials fail, using 'softness' as a criterion.
Dec 20th, 2017
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The technique can use multiple metals and substrates and is compatible with existing manufacturing systems that employ direct printing technologies.
Dec 20th, 2017
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New experiments demonstrate a more efficient and scalable method for using dark excitons in quantum information processing.
Dec 20th, 2017
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Use your smartphone to check how clean the air is, whether food is fresh or a lump is malignant. This has all come a step closer thanks to a new spectrometer that is so small it can be incorporated easily and cheaply in a mobile phone.
Dec 20th, 2017
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