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- Tunnel Barrier Disappears In A Topological Superconducting State 30/08/2019 Researchers have seen Klein tunnelling – a rare relativistic phenomenon in which a tunnel barrier disappears – in a topological superconducting state for the first time. The result sheds more light on a previously overlooked aspect of topological superconductivity and could even help in the development of a new family of spintronic and superconducting devices, they say.
- Supersolidity Appears In Ultracold Atoms 29/08/2019 A supersolid is a paradoxical form of matter – it flows without friction (like a superfluid) but its particles are arranged in a crystalline lattice (like a solid).
- Three-Atom-Thick Optical Waveguide Is The Thinnest Ever 28/08/2019 Researchers have succeeded in making the thinnest ever optical device in the form of a waveguide just three atomic layers thick. The device could lead to the development of higher density optoelectronic chips.
- Electricity-Free Cooling Material System Shows Potential 27/08/2019 To meet global demand for cooling sustainably, researchers at the University at Buffalo have developed a device that could cool buildings without electricity.
- Carbon Nanotube 16-bit Microprocessor Takes Computing Beyond Silicon 26/08/2019 Carbon nanotubes have been touted as a potential successor to silicon technology that could improve energy efficiencies by an order of magnitude.
- Graphene Origami Reaches Quantum Precision 25/08/2019 It’s easier to fold a napkin than a notepad. The potential to manipulate graphite into precise nanostructures using a scanning probe microscope has teased researchers ever since Thomas W. Ebbesen and Hidefumi Hiura first reported accidental tears and folds in their graphite during scanning tunnelling microscope (STM) experiments in the mid-1990s.
- Synthetic Antiferromagnets Host Room-Temperature Skyrmions 24/08/2019 Researchers have succeeded in stabilizing antiferromagnetic skyrmions in an ordinary material system at room temperature for the first time.
- A Million Pulses Per Second: How Particle Accelerators Are Powering X-Ray Lasers 23/08/2019 Researchers in biology, chemistry and physics will use LCLS-II to probe fundamental pieces of matter, creating 3-D movies of complex molecules in action, making LCLS-II a powerful, versatile instrument at the forefront of discovery.
- A Chip Made With Carbon Nanotubes, Not Silicon, Marks A Computing Milestone 22/08/2019 The prototype could give rise to a new generation of faster, more energy-efficient electronics
- Nanoscale Graphene Sheets Folded Into Atomic Crêpes 21/08/2019 Atom-thick sheets stacked with precise twist angle and tubular edge could be made into quantum nanomachines
- Ferromagnetism Appears In Twisted Bilayer Graphene 19/08/2019 Researchers have found that electrons organize themselves into a new kind of ferromagnet in twisted bilayer graphene (TBG).