String-sliding vibrational modes govern the boson peak and phonon anomalies in amorphous materials
Zeller, R. C. & Pohl, R. O. Thermal conductivity and specific heat of noncrystalline solids. Phys. Rev. B…
Optical multistability in a compact microcavity enabled by near-exceptional coupling
Leopold, D. A. & Logothetis, N. K. Activity changes in early visual cortex reflect monkeys’ percepts during binocular…
Excitonic spin torque in a magnetic semiconductor
Chernikov, A. et al. Exciton binding energy and nonhydrogenic Rydberg series in monolayer WS2. Phys. Rev. Lett. 113,…
Ames Lab Scientist Provides AI-Driven Roadmap for Future Permanent Magnet Design
Newswise — Researchers at Ames National Laboratory are advancing the discovery of materials for rare-earth-free permanent magnets by…
UV and thermally stable hole-selective contacts with enhanced assembly density for inverted perovskite solar cells
Snaith, H. J. Present status and future prospects of perovskite photovoltaics. Nat. Mater. 17, 372–376 (2018). Article CAS …
Scientists Crack Key Mystery Behind High-Temperature Superconductors
Nodeless superconducting gap and electron-boson coupling in (La,Pr,Sm)3Ni2O7 films. Credit: Image by the research team New measurements of…
Scientists Are Turning Ocean Trash Into Roads – and It’s Actually Working
Researchers in Hawaii are exploring an innovative way to turn discarded fishing nets and household plastic waste into…
Probing the quantum metric of 3D topological insulators
Hasan, M. Z. & Kane, C. L. Colloquium: Topological insulators. Rev. Mod. Phys. 82, 3045–3067 (2010). Article CAS …
Goodbye Plastic? Scientists Create New Supermaterial That Could Transform Modern Manufacturing
A new study in Nature Communications reports the development of an innovative, scalable approach to engineer bacterial cellulose…
Layer photovoltaic effect in a two-dimensional antiferromagnet with parity–time symmetry
Polman, A., Knight, M., Garnett, E. C., Ehrler, B. & Sinke, W. C. Photovoltaic materials: present efficiencies and…
Physicists Observe Strange Quantum Rotation Effect That Defies Intuition
Like on a Ferris wheel, a powerful terahertz laser drives the atoms of a crystal along precise circular…
All-optical control of antiferromagnetic domains via an inverse optical magnetoelectric effect
Kimel, A. V. & Li, M. Writing magnetic memory with ultrashort light pulses. Nat. Rev. Mater. 4, 189–200…