Flexible and transparent graphene pressure sensor

Researchers have developed a transparent, bendable and sensitive pressure sensor. Healthcare practitioners may one day be able to physically screen for breast cancer using pressure-sensitive rubber gloves to detect tumors, owing to this newly developed sensor.

Scientists gain new insights into atomic disordering of complex metal oxides

A new study on an important class of complex metal oxides could soon pay dividends in the development of materials with energy-related applications.

Laser grown directly on a silicon substrate

Creation of first practical silicon-based laser has the potential to transform communications, healthcare and energy systems.

Warming up optoelectronic research

Researchers are creating tailor-made materials for cutting-edge research and perhaps a new generation of optoelectronic devices. The materials make it easier for the researchers to manipulate excitons, which are pairs of an electron and an electron hole bound to each other by an electrostatic force.

Researchers achieve controlled movement of skyrmions

Basis for the utilization of skyrmions for application-related systems/ Magnetic vortices as data storage media of the future.

Development of breath-print sensors for early diagnosis and monitoring of diseases

Highly sensitive electronic biosniffers can diagnose diseases by precisely detecting biomarkers in exhaled breath.

Novel whispering-gallery-type sensor for single nanoparticle detection

Researchers demonstrated experimentally that the dissipative interaction in a high-Q optical microcavity allows the detection of single nanoparticles.

Real-time direct observation of atom movements in electron microscopy

Atomic motion in a crystalline oxide that was used as a cathode in Li-ion batteries was directly demonstrated by state-of-an-art transmission electron microscopy, revealing the transient pathway of a chemical ordering reaction.

Reconfigurable building blocks for the construction of photonic devices

Photonic microcapsules confining cholesteric liquid crystals are microfluidically produced, potentially serving as building blocks to compose any shapes of photonic devices.

Engineers develop flexible skin that traps radar waves, cloaks objects

Engineers have developed a new flexible, stretchable and tunable 'meta-skin' that uses rows of small, liquid-metal devices to cloak an object from the sharp eyes of radar.