Superconductors/Semiconductors

Theory group is driving advances in global efforts to build useful machinesCredit: University of Sydney A world-record result in reducing errors in semiconductor 'spin qubits', a type of building block for quantum computers, has been…

Drexel researchers produce conductive MXene ink to print micro-supercapacitorsCredit: Drexel University Researchers from Drexel University and Trinity College in Ireland, have created ink for an inkjet printer from a highly conductive type…

Credit: (U.S. Naval Research Laboratory) WASHINGTON -- Scientists at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) discovered a new method to passivate defects in next generation optical materials to improve optical quality and enable…

Layered bismuth chalcogenide superconductor shows electronic 'nematicity'Credit: Tokyo Metropolitan University Tokyo, Japan - Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have found that crystals of a recently discovered superconducting…

Credit: Nicole Kelly/Michigan Tech Two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors are promising for quantum computing and future electronics. Now, researchers can convert metallic gold into semiconductor and customize the material atom-by-atom on…

Tiny, individual, flexible ribbons of crystalline phosphorus have been made by UCL researchers in a world first, and they could revolutionise electronics and fast-charging battery technology. Since the isolation of 2-dimensional…

The enhanced power of the new measuring technique to characterize materials at scales much smaller than any current technologies will accelerate the discovery and investigation of 2D, micro- and nanoscale materials.Credit: Cockrell School…

Russian physicist Viktor Lakhno from Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics, RAS considers symmetrical bipolarons as a basis of high-temperature superconductivity. The theory explains recent experiments in which a superconductivity was…

PITTSBURGH (April 4, 2019) -- As much as half of all U.S. energy production each year is lost as waste heat, but new research led by the University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering, in collaboration with Carnegie Mellon…

Credit: US Department of Energy, Ames Laboratory In a collaboration between the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory and Northeastern University, scientists have developed a model for predicting the shape of metal…