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- ‘Little Big Coil’ Creates Record-Breaking Continuous Magnetic Field 07/07/2019 The highest continuous magnetic field ever created in the lab has been achieved by physicists in the US.
- Magnets That Double Efficiency Of Water Splitting Could Help Usher In A Hydrogen Economy 05/07/2019 Simply bringing an ordinary permanent magnet within touching distance of a water splitting reactor can double the process’ efficiency. Slashing the amount of energy required to split water opens the way to industrial production of hydrogen and an economy that runs on the gas, all powered by renewable energy.
- Exotic Particles Called Pentaquarks May Be Less Weird Than Previously Thought 03/07/2019 The Large Hadron Collider beauty experiment has discovered three new pentaquarks.
- The Language Of Physics 01/07/2019 30 words that mean something different to scientists.
- Nanoscale Optical Imaging Gets Simpler And Cheaper 29/06/2019 The promise of optical imaging and its wealth of spectroscopic information at nanoscale resolution seems too good to be true, and for many labs it has been.
- X-Ray Diffraction Reveals Switching Mechanism In Phase-Change Materials 27/06/2019 Phase-change materials can be reversibly switched between their glassy and crystalline states by applying a voltage that heats up the material or by directly heating them up with a laser.
- Strain Switches 2D Phase-Change Transistor 25/06/2019 A new way to switch transistors could overcome the power consumption and undesirable current leakage problems encountered in conventional nanoscale field-effect devices.
- Single-Spin System Breaks Quantum Symmetry 23/06/2019 Researchers say they have observed parity-time symmetry breaking for the first time in an experiment.
- Metal Ion Separation Speeds Up 21/06/2019 A faster method to purify elements.
- Emerging Photovoltaic Technology Efficiencies Line Up 19/06/2019 As the first ever table of efficiencies for emerging photovoltaic technologies is published in Journal of Physics: Energy, Edgardo Saucedo, an investigator at the Catalonia Institute for Energy Research, talks to Anna Demming about the motivation and strategy behind it.
- Perovskites A Single Crystal Unit Thick Stand Free 17/06/2019 The crystalline lattice of free-standing perovskites would collapse in films less than five crystal lattice units thick.