Universality of charge order in cuprate superconductors
Charge order has been established in another class of cuprate superconductors, highlighting the importance of the phenomenon as a general property of these high-Tc materials.
View ArticleFirst-of-its-kind tube laser created for on-chip optical communications
(Phys.org)—Nanophotonics, which takes advantage of the much faster speed of light compared with electrons, could potentially lead to future optical computers that transmit large amounts of data at very...
View ArticleTesla, Chinese firm plan 400 charging stations
Tesla Motors Co. and a state-owned Chinese phone carrier announced plans Friday to build 400 charging stations for electric cars in a new bid to promote popular adoption of the technology in China.
View ArticleT-Mobile US calling plans to cover Canada and Mexico
T-Mobile will now let its U.S. customers call, text, use apps and browse the Internet within North America without paying extra charges.
View ArticleThe first two-way, 2-D, ultra-high mobility Si (111) transistor
The two-dimensional physical properties of semiconductor materials depend keenly on a number of factors, such as material purity, surface orientation, flatness, surface reconstruction, charge carrier...
View ArticleOrganic framework serves as a catalyst for the photocatalytic conversion of...
Humanity's need for energy is ever-increasing. However, the traditional energy sources are finite. In contrast, water and sunlight are available in vast abundance. Scientists at the Max Planck...
View ArticleNanographene charge trapping memory could further miniaturize flash
(Phys.org)—Flash memory—the data storage method often used in phones, computers, and other devices—is continually being miniaturized in order to improve device performance. In an attempt to reduce the...
View ArticleNew class of materials for organic electronics: Charge transport in polymeric...
Polymeric carbon nitride is an organic material with interesting optoelectronic properties. As an inexpensive photocatalyst, it can be used to facilitate water splitting using sunlight. A cooperation...
View ArticleResearch identifies increased potential for perovskites as a material for...
Scientists at the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have demonstrated a way to significantly increase the efficiency of perovskite solar cells by reducing the amount of...
View ArticleFerrite boosting photocatalytic hydrogen evolution
Photocatalytic hydrogen generation via water splitting has become a hot spot in the field of energy and materials. The goal of this technique is to construct cheap and efficient photocatalytic water...
View ArticleScientists push valleytronics one step closer to reality
Scientists with the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have taken a big step toward the practical application of "valleytronics," which is a new type of...
View ArticleResearchers identify specific defects in LED diodes that lead to less...
Using state-of-the-art theoretical methods, UCSB researchers have identified a specific type of defect in the atomic structure of a light-emitting diode (LED) that results in less efficient...
View ArticleRiddle of missing efficiency in zinc oxide-based dye-sensitised solar cells...
To convert solar energy into electricity or solar fuels, you need specialised systems of materials such as those consisting of organic and inorganic thin films. Processes at the junction of these films...
View ArticleNew world record for fullerene-free polymer solar cells
Polymer solar cells can be even cheaper and more reliable thanks to a breakthrough by scientists at Linköping University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). This work is about avoiding costly...
View ArticlePhotocatalytic reductions occur in slow time scales
With the increasing need for renewable fuels scientists have attempted to harvest abundant sunlight while simultaneously reducing CO2. However, the process is generally inefficient and many aspects...
View ArticleResearchers find new method for doping single crystals of diamond
Along with being a "girl's best friend," diamonds also have remarkable properties that could make them ideal semiconductors. This is welcome news for electronics; semiconductors are needed to meet the...
View ArticleElectrical properties of superconductor altered by 'stretching'
In the early 1970s, in the basement of Clark Hall, the Cornell team of professors David Lee and Robert Richardson, along with then-graduate student Douglas Osheroff, first observed superfluid helium-3....
View ArticleChallenging the 'rigidity' for smart soft electronics
Soft electronic devices, such as a smartphone on your wrist and a folding screen in your pocket, are looking to much improve your lifestyle in the not-too-distant future. That is, if we could find ways...
View ArticleLow-cost and defect-free graphene
Graphene is one of the most promising new materials. However, researchers across the globe are still looking for a way to produce defect-free graphene at low costs. Chemists at...
View ArticleWhy the phase-change material iron-tellurium best conducts electricity in its...
Solid materials whose atoms are arranged in a well-ordered crystalline structure are usually better conductors of electricity than randomly structured, or amorphous, solids. Recently, however, A*STAR...
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