Superconductors/Semiconductors

Credit: Image courtesy of Jigang Wang/Iowa State University AMES, Iowa - Scientists are using light waves to accelerate supercurrents and access the unique properties of the quantum world, including forbidden light emissions that one…

Scientists previously observed this peculiar behavior in other materials whose ability to conduct electricity without energy loss cannot be explained by standard theoretical frameworksCredit: Brookhaven National Laboratory …

2D order protects several entangled states that could be used in quantum computingCredit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON -- (May 18, 2020) -- U.S. and German physicists have found surprising evidence that one of the most…

Encoding information in twisting beams of light could break bandwidth bottleneck in optical communicationsCredit: University of Pennsylvania As computers get more powerful and connected, the amount of data that we send and…

Researchers calculate the quasi-Fermi levels in molecular junctions applying an initio approach. -Credit: Yong-Hoon Kim, KAIST Semiconductor companies are struggling to develop devices that are mere nanometers in size, and much of…

Credit: Copyright: Hans-Henning Klauss What happened yesterday and what will happen tomorrow are usually two different and quite independent matters. The past and the future of human life are not symmetric and therefore not…

Quantum-dot approach shows promise for a new type of toxic-element-free, inexpensive, defect-tolerant solar cellsCredit: Los Alamos National Laboratory Novel quantum dot solar cells developed at Los Alamos National Laboratory match…

Scientists explain how perforating flexible electrodes with micrometer-sized holes makes them resistant to bending and foldingCredit: DGIST The prospect of the widespread commercialization and application of flexible…

UC Riverside-led research shows these transitions can emit lightCredit: Erfu Liu, UC Riverside. RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- An international research team led by scientists at the University of California, Riverside, has observed…

Study co-led by Berkeley Lab reveals how wavelike plasmons could power up a new class of sensing and photochemical technologies at the nanoscaleCredit: Felipe da Jornada/Berkeley Lab Wavelike, collective oscillations of electrons known as…

Experts from the University of Surrey believe their dream of clean energy storage is a step closer after they unveiled their ground-breaking super-capacitor technology that is able to store and deliver electricity at high power rates,…

Stevens researchers develop a ferromagnetic semiconductor that works at room temperature, solving one of science's most intractable problemsCredit: Stevens Institute of Technology As our smartphones, laptops, and computers get…

Credit: U.S. Navy photo by Jonathan Steffen WASHINGTON -- David Storm, a research physicist, and Tyler Growden, an electrical engineer, both with the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, developed a new gallium nitride-based…

Tiny material differences are crucial for the functional behavior of memristive devicesCredit: Copyright: RWTH Aachen / Peter Winandy Scientists around the world are intensively working on memristive devices, which are…

Credit: Daria Sokol/MIPT Press Office Scientists from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Skoltech, and the Russian Academy of Sciences Joint Institute for High Temperatures have conducted a theoretical study of the…

Prof. ZHONG Zhicheng's team at the Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering (NIMTE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has investigated the electronic structure of the recently discovered nickelate superconductors NdNiO2.…

Credit: Lancaster University Lancaster University's Dr Samuli Autti has been awarded a Young Scientist Prize 2020 by the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics. The prestigious prize, awarded only once every three…

A new measuring method helps understand the physics of high-temperature superconductivityCredit: HZDR / Juniks From sustainable energy to quantum computers: high-temperature superconductors have the potential to revolutionize…

Credit: Kobe University A research group led by Associate Professor TACHIKAWA Takashi of Kobe University's Molecular Photoscience Research Center has succeeded in developing a strategy that greatly increases the amount of…

A physics process yielding low-power nanolasers in 2D semiconductor materials could be a game-changer for high speed communicationsCredit: Graphic by Rhonda Hitchcock-Mast/ASU In his latest line of research, Cun-Zheng Ning, a…