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Researchers achieve controlled movement of skyrmions

Basis for the utilization of skyrmions for application-related systems/ Magnetic vortices as data storage media of the future.

Mar 7th, 2016

Warming up optoelectronic research

Researchers are creating tailor-made materials for cutting-edge research and perhaps a new generation of optoelectronic devices. The materials make it easier for the researchers to manipulate excitons, which are pairs of an electron and an electron hole bound to each other by an electrostatic force.

Mar 7th, 2016

Reconfigurable building blocks for the construction of photonic devices

Photonic microcapsules confining cholesteric liquid crystals are microfluidically produced, potentially serving as building blocks to compose any shapes of photonic devices.

Mar 7th, 2016

Real-time direct observation of atom movements in electron microscopy

Atomic motion in a crystalline oxide that was used as a cathode in Li-ion batteries was directly demonstrated by state-of-an-art transmission electron microscopy, revealing the transient pathway of a chemical ordering reaction.

Mar 7th, 2016

Novel whispering-gallery-type sensor for single nanoparticle detection

Researchers demonstrated experimentally that the dissipative interaction in a high-Q optical microcavity allows the detection of single nanoparticles.

Mar 7th, 2016

Development of breath-print sensors for early diagnosis and monitoring of diseases

Highly sensitive electronic biosniffers can diagnose diseases by precisely detecting biomarkers in exhaled breath.

Mar 7th, 2016

Engineers develop flexible skin that traps radar waves, cloaks objects

Engineers have developed a new flexible, stretchable and tunable 'meta-skin' that uses rows of small, liquid-metal devices to cloak an object from the sharp eyes of radar.

Mar 7th, 2016

Researchers invent fleet and fast test for nanomanufacturing quality control

Manufacturers may soon have a speedy and nondestructive way to test a wide array of materials under real-world conditions, thanks to an advance that researchers have made in roll-to-roll measurements.

Mar 4th, 2016

Technological breakthrough for cheaper lighting and flexible solar cells

EU project TREASORES finishes successfully.

Mar 4th, 2016

Graphene slides smoothly across gold

Since it produces almost no friction at all, graphene could drastically reduce energy loss in machines when used as a coating.

Mar 4th, 2016

Building a better mouse trap, from the atoms up

Machine learning makes materials design into a science.

Mar 4th, 2016

Electricity can flow through graphene at high frequencies without energy loss

Electrical signals transmitted at high frequencies lose none of their energy when passed through graphene, a new study shows.

Mar 4th, 2016

Nanoscale rotor and gripper push DNA origami to new limits

Scientists have built two new nanoscale machines with moving parts, using DNA as a programmable, self-assembling construction material.

Mar 4th, 2016

Heat from the environment can help quantum annealers solve certain problems

Scientists have recently demonstrated that heat energy coming in from the outside can help a quantum annealer get better solutions for a certain type of problem.

Mar 4th, 2016

Pushing boundaries

Studies of critical reactions at interfaces between solids and liquids provide insights into systems spanning the fields of Atmospheric Aerosol Systems, Biosystem Dynamics and Design, Energy Materials and Processes, and Terrestrial and Subsurface Ecosystems.

Mar 4th, 2016

'Bending current' opens up the way for a new type of magnetic memory

Physicists describe energy-efficient MRAM.

Mar 4th, 2016

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