Cooling chips with the flip of a switch

Researchers have created a dielectric material that maintains a cooled state after an electrical field pulse.

Lighting the way to new sensors

Novel photonic structures can act as tiny and highly accurate sensors of temperature and humidity.

Breaking metamaterial symmetry with reflected light

Researchers have discovered a new type of optical activity by breaking the symmetry of metamaterials with reflected light.

Transparent metal touchscreens

Roll-to-roll printing a conductive metal ink offers an inexpensive, high performance alternative to today?s touchscreen technology.

A movie of the microworld: Physicists create nanoparticle picture series

Think of it as a microscopic movie: A sequence of X-ray images shows the explosion of superheated nanoparticles. The picture series reveals how the atoms in these particles move, how they form plasma and how the particles change shape.

Changing the color of single photons in a diamond quantum memory

Researchers have, for the first time, converted the colour and bandwidth of ultrafast single photons using a room-temperature quantum memory in diamond.

Recording-breaking steel could be used for body armor, shields for satellites

A team of engineers has developed and tested a type of steel with a record-breaking ability to withstand an impact without deforming permanently. The new steel alloy could be used in a wide range of applications, from drill bits, to body armor for soldiers, to meteor-resistant casings for satellites.

Cost-effective production of hydrogen from natural resources

Research team finds a way to mass-produce silicon nanosheets, using natural clay and salt.

Model aids efforts to reduce cost of carbon nanostructures for industry, research

Researchers have developed a simulation technique as part of a project to help reduce the cost of carbon nanostructures for research and potential commercial technologies, including advanced sensors and batteries.

Research team discovers novel way of transferring magnetic information

Breakthrough potentially enables electromagnetic tuning of magnetic information.