Ultrafast Coulomb blockade in an atomic-scale quantum dot
Sample preparation Our WSe2 samples are grown via metal organic chemical vapor deposition on few-layer epitaxial graphene supported…
Observation of space-time surface plasmon polaritons
Theoretical formulation The conceptual formulation of ST-SPPs is best understood by visualizing their spectral representation on the surface…
Passive air sampling detects environmental DNA transfer from water into air
Field sampling We conducted this study near Seattle, Washington USA, in Issaquah Creek, a salmon spawning stream, outside…
Identifying global hotspots of agricultural expansion into non-forest ecosystems
Harris, N. L. et al. Global maps of twenty-first century forest carbon fluxes. Nat. Clim. Change 11, 234–240…
Functional diversity of soil microbial communities increases with ecosystem development
Winkler, K., Fuchs, R., Rounsevell, M. & Herold, M. Global land use changes are four times greater than…
Land-use change undermines the stability of avian functional diversity
Survey data To assess impacts of land-use change on bird diversity, we began by collating surveys from the…
Ultranarrow electroluminescence from magnetic excitons in the van der Waals antiferromagnetic semiconductor NiPS3
NiPS3 has a monoclinic structure, where Ni ions are octahedrally coordinated by six S ligands, and the resulting…
Terahertz photonic heterodyne spectral analysis with (sub-) kHz resolution and 6.5 THz frequency coverage
Photonic local oscillator The laser engine, used as the LO, combines the stability and accuracy of comb technology…
Detection of triboelectric discharges during dust events on Mars
Aplin, K. L. & Fischer, G. Lightning detection in planetary atmospheres. Weather 72, 46–50 (2017). Article ADS Google…
Slipknot-gauged mechanical transmission and robotic operation
Fabrication of the slipknot All experiments were conducted at room temperature (21 °C). The loading rate was set at…
Entanglement-enhanced nanoscale single-spin sensing | Nature
Casola, F., van der Sar, T. & Yacoby, A. Probing condensed matter physics with magnetometry based on nitrogen-vacancy…
Multi-qubit nanoscale sensing with entanglement as a resource
Rovny, J. et al. Nanoscale diamond quantum sensors for many-body physics. Nat. Rev. Phys. 6, 753–768 (2024). Article …