By stacking and twisting two layers of cuprate crystals, researchers have created the world’s first high-temperature superconducting diode.
25 December 2023
By conducting laser annealing in a vacuum, researchers have managed to create a transparent magnetic material.
22 December 2023
Researchers have combined two nanosized crystalline materials onto a single chip and shown that one can efficienctly transmit light to the other.
21 December 2023
Infrared supermirrors use new paradigm in coatings
20 December 2023Laurie Donaldson
Using advanced thin-film coating and microfabrication techniques, researchers have developed the first true supermirror for mid-infrared wavelengths.
12 December 2023
By mapping the structural features of a 2D ferroelectric material, researchers have revealed how domains in the material impact its behavior.
6 December 2023
An AI tool called GNoME worked with an AI-guided robot called A-Lab to create more than 40 novel materials in just 17 days.
1 December 2023
By measuring shot noise. researchers have produced the first direct evidence that electricity doesn't flow through strange metals as quasiparticles.
27 November 2023
By examining ring shapes in silica glass, researchers have uncovered details about the structural regularity hidden in glassy materials.
27 November 2023
Researchers have discovered that a one-dimensional metal called purple bronze can switch between insulating and superconducting states.
24 November 2023
vacancies can be used to engineer the mechanical toughness and fracture behavior of transition metal dichalcogenides
21 November 2023Cordelia Sealy
Researchers have confirmed the presence of quantum spin liquid behavior in a new material with a triangular atomic structure.
20 November 2023
Exposing a rare-earth crystal to ultrafast pulses of light sends its atoms into a dance that aligns the spins of its electrons with the atomic rotation.
13 November 2023
By taking advantage of 'kagome' patterns, researchers have achieved an electronic flat band in a three-dimensional crystal.
8 November 2023
Researchers have used DNA to assemble nanoparticles shaped like two pyramids stuch together at their base into quasicrystals.
3 November 2023
Researchers have shown that photonic crystals with lattice distortions can bend light just like gravity.
18 October 2023
Researchers have discovered that irradiating a crystal of titanium dioxide with an electron beam can repair cracks in the crystal.
13 October 2023
For the first time, researchers have investigated what happens when they bombard a crystal with positrons, the antiparticle of an electron.
12 October 2023