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There’s still plenty of room at the bottom: Isotopically pure materials for when every atom counts

02/08/2020  When different isotopes of atoms have significantly different properties, the ability to create isotopically pure materials becomes essential.

Hybrid material may outperform graphene in several applications

03/01/2019  A structure comprising a molybdenum disulfide monolayer on an azobenzene substrate could be used to build a highly compactable and malleable quasi-two-dimensional transistor powered by light.

Organic electronics: Scientists develop a high-performance unipolar n-type thin-film transistor

03/01/2019  A research team at Tokyo Tech's Department of Materials Science and Engineering including Tsuyoshi Michinobu and Yang Wang report a way of increasing the electron mobility of semiconducting polymers, which have previously proven difficult to optimize.

Hybrid material may outperform graphene in several applications

02/28/2019  A structure comprising a molybdenum disulfide monolayer on an azobenzene substrate could be used to build a highly compactable and malleable quasi-two-dimensional transistor powered by light.

It's all in the twist: Physicists stack 2D materials at angles to trap particles

02/26/2019  Scientists create a unique platform to study quantum optical physics on the nanoscale.

Graphite offers up new quantum surprise

02/25/2019  University of Manchester researchers have observed an unusual quantum Hall effect in the old three-dimensional material.

Topological defects could be key to future nano-electronics

02/25/2019  Ferroic and multiferroic topological structures reviewed in Nature Materials.

The holy grail of nanowire production

02/21/2019  Researchers from EPFL's Laboratory of Semiconductor Materials, run by Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, together with colleagues from MIT and the IOFFE Institute, have come up with a way of growing nanowire networks in a highly controlled and fully reproducible manner.

Physicists get thousands of semiconductor nuclei to do 'quantum dances' in unison

02/21/2019  A team of Cambridge researchers have found a way to control the sea of nuclei in semiconductor quantum dots so they can operate as a quantum memory device.

Spintronics by 'straintronics'

02/15/2019  Switching superferromagnetism with electric-field induced strain.

Chemical data mining boosts search for new organic semiconductors

02/14/2019  Organic semiconductors are lightweight, flexible and easy to manufacture. But they often fail to meet expectations regarding efficiency and stability. Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) are now deploying data mining approaches to identify promising organic compounds for the electronics of the future.

Phase transition dynamics in two-dimensional materials

02/12/2019  Two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides (2D-TMDs) such as monolayer molybdenum disulphide (MoS2) are atomically thin semiconductors in which a layer of transition metal atom is sandwiched between two layers of chalcogen atoms, in the form MX2.

Next-generation optics in just two minutes of cooking time

02/11/2019  The EPFL's School of Engineering method produces dielectric glass metasurfaces that can be either rigid or flexible. The results of their research appear in Nature Nanotechnology.

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