Material Science & Technology

Schematics of the device, which consists of a graphene Josephson junction, which is integrated into a microwave circuit. Courtesy: ICFO. Bolometers are devices that measure the power of incident electromagnetic...

The type of detector the team works on is called a bolometer, which measures the energy of incoming radiation by measuring how much it heats up the detector. Professor Mikko...

Researchers build circuit that harnessed the atomic motion of graphene to generate an electrical current that could lead to a chip to replace batteries. A team of University of Arkansas...

Super-micro, low-power sensors and devices that can send and receive signals and information anytime, anywhere will become an integral part of people’s lives in a hyper-connected world driven by the...

Since the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded for research on graphene in 2010, 2-D materials—nanosheets with atomic thickness—have been a hot topic in science. This significant interest is due...

The family of boron-based nanostructures has a new member: metallo-borospherenes, hollow cages made from 18 boron atoms and three atoms of lanthanide elements. The discovery of carbon nanostructures like two-dimensional...

The technique for making them is simple, and counterintuitive—it involves smashing the pristine materials to build new ones. Called mechanochemistry, the technique uses ball milling to take apart structurally incommensurate...

University of Washington researchers used an infrared laser to cool a solid semiconductor material — labeled here as “cantilever” — by at least 20 degrees C, or 36 F, below...

Therefore, PhD researcher Yuyang Wang uses a ‘plasmonic nanotorch’, a single metal nanoparticle that illuminates single fluorescent molecules, making it possible now to detect those ultrafast biochemical reactions. An artistic...

Miniaturization has enabled so many unfathomable dreams. Shrinking down electronic circuits has allowed us to access technology like smartphones, health watches, medical probes, nano-satellites, unthinkable a couple decades ago. Just...