Electrons can now be controlled to build smarter quantum devices
Auburn University scientists have developed a new class of materials that lets researchers precisely control free electrons, a…
Room-temperature ultrasensitive photon-level detection in the subterahertz frequency regime
Figure 1 shows the experimental setup for detecting frequency up-conversion of sub-THz waves. The pump light source was…
An experimental demonstration of irreversible mesoscopic carrier transport phenomena in InGaN quantum wells
C-mode measurement The 2-probe correlation measurements were preceded by local PL spectroscopy over a 9.6 μm × 9.6 μm area…
Signatures of Kramers-Weyl fermions in the charge density wave material (TaSe4)2I
Fu, L., Kane, C. L. & Mele, E. J. Topological insulators in three dimensions. Phys. Rev. Lett. 98,…
Observation of superconductivity in a nontrivial $${{{{\mathcal{Z}}}}}_{2}$$ approximant quasicrystal
Crystal structure The crystal structure of the approximant decagonal QC Al13Os4 adopts a low-symmetry monoclinic structure with space…
Moving Abrikosov vortex lattices generate sub-40-nm magnons
Fabrication of the microwave nano-antenna The fabrication of the experimental system began with the deposition of a 40/5 nm…
Relativistic Mott transition in twisted WSe2 tetralayers
Novoselov, K. S. et al. Two-dimensional gas of massless Dirac fermions in graphene. Nature 438, 197–200 (2005). Article …
Large moiré superstructure of stacked incommensurate charge density waves
Cao, Y. et al. Unconventional superconductivity in magic-angle graphene superlattices. Nature 556, 43–50 (2018). Article CAS PubMed Google…
AI is dreaming up millions of new materials. Are they any good?
When the pioneering artificial intelligence (AI) firm Google DeepMind announced almost two years ago that it had used…
Mechanically liberating polarization bubbles in van der Waals ferroelectrics
Das, S. et al. Observation of room-temperature polar skyrmions. Nature 568, 368–372 (2019). Article PubMed CAS Google Scholar …
Scientists Unlock Diamond’s Quantum Potential
Illustration showing photon emission from a nanodiamond and light directed by a bullseye antenna. Credit: SciTechDaily.com, inspired by…
Chemists Grow Diamonds With an Electron Beam
Researchers have discovered a low-pressure, electron-beam method to turn adamantane into defect-free nanodiamonds. Credit: Stock Synthetic diamond research…