Monday, September 30, 2019

Quantum material goes where none have gone before

Alloy behaves strangely while traversing potential 'spin liquid' state.

Millions of parabolic nanoantennas for a high-precision sensor

Researchers have developed a multi-purpose sensor based on a specially designed gold film which surface contains millions of parabolic nanoantennas produced by femtosecond laser printing.

Curved nanochannels allow independent tuning of charge and spin currents

Scientists discovered that this new curved geometry makes it possible to independently tune charge and spin currents. \

Silicon technology boost with graphene and 2D materials

Researchers and collaborators report on the current state, challenges, opportunities of graphene and 2D material integration in silicon technology.

Borophene on silver grows freely into an atomic 'skin'

By using a silver substrate and through careful manipulation of temperature and deposition rate, scientists have discovered they can grow elongated hexagon-shaped flakes of borophene.

Towards safer, more effective cancer radiation therapy using X-rays and nanoparticles

X-rays could be tuned to deliver a more effective punch that destroys cancer cells and not harm the body.