Electronic properties news, February 2015

Announcing Engineering Advances

A new initiative involving Elsevier’s engineering journals, editors, authors and referees – titled Engineering Advances.

New technique for making molybdenum disulphide

University of Pennsylvania researchers have made an advance in manufacturing one such material, molybdenum disulphide.

Using biology to improve lithium ion batteries

Specialized peptides binds with nanoparticles to help improve lithium-ion batteries.

New transistor switches superconductivity using light

New type of superconducting transistor that can be switched reversibly between on and off positions using light irradiation.

Improved plasmonic devices using the mid-infrared range

Novel material for efficient plasmonic devices in mid-IR range.

Symmetric solution

Hidden order revealed, cracking a cryo puzzle.

Revealing a new class of materials

Scientists used supercomputers to find a new class of materials that possess an exotic state of matter known as the quantum spin Hall effect.

Prof. David Srolovitz elected to the National Academy of Engineering

Content innovation: the Virtual Microscope

Welcome to the Virtual Microscope, the integrated browser based slide viewer that provides access to high resolution whole slide images.

Unlocking materials science data to support the materials genome initiative

Materials Today lead the way to make it simple for authors to publicly share peer-reviewed, curated, formatted, indexed, citable raw research data.

Elsevier lightens your research contest

We’re celebrating the International Year of Light with a video contest where we ask you to tell us what light means to you.

The economics of solar photovoltaic systems

Examining two new report by NREL into trade-offs of owning of leasing photovoltaic systems.

Easy to use technology compresses laser pulses for research

Using a medium to compress and shorten intense laser pulses.

Into the quantum valley

Valleytronics offers an alternative approach to spintronics.