Superconductors/Semiconductors

An existing technique is better suited to describing superconductivity in pure, single-layer graphene than current methods Made up of 2D sheets of carbon atoms arranged in honeycomb lattices, graphene has been intensively studied in recent…

Scientists at Berkeley Lab convert diamonds' atomic flaws into atomic sensors with front-row seats to a quantum world of materials under extreme pressureCredit: Norman Yao/Berkeley Lab; Ella Marushchenko Since their invention more than…

Credit: Soojin Park(POSTECH) With the launch of wearable devices and smartphones that require high capacity of electricity such as foldable phones and 5G phones, the interest in batteries are increasing and various battery types are…

Technique captures a process that commonly causes electrical resistance in materials while, in others, can cause the absence of resistance, or superconductivity.Credit: Research to Reality For the first time, researchers have been…

Credit: Evgeniy Pelevin, MIPT Press Office Researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, and the Institute of Solid State Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences have demonstrated…

Band structure map exposes iron selenide's enigmatic electronic signatureCredit: Image courtesy of M. Yi/Rice University HOUSTON -- (Dec. 6, 2019) -- Using a clever technique that causes unruly crystals of iron selenide to snap…

Pitt Engineer Feng Xiong receives $500K NSF Career Award for advancing AI neural network technologyCredit: University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering PITTSBURGH (Dec. 6, 2019) --In science fiction stories from "I,…

Recent research settles a long-standing debateCredit: (Video courtesy of Harris Pirie/Harvard University) Move over Godzilla vs. King Kong -- this is the crossover event you've been waiting for. Well, at least if you're a condensed…

Discovery could help in effort to make high-powered electronics more efficient COLUMBUS, Ohio-- A research team has reported seeing, for the first time, atomic scale defects that dictate the properties of a new and powerful semiconductor.…

Credit: University of Jyväskylä/Pauli Virtanen Understanding how microwave absorption changes the transport properties of diffusive Josephson junctions is at the forefront of interest in the quantum transport community. It is…