Giving friction the slip with new carbon nanofilms

Self-healing diamond-like carbon coating could revolutionize lubrication.

How to 3D-print on the nanoscale

Electron beam controllably builds micro- and nanoscale structures, enabling new three-dimensional materials.

Researchers create practical and versatile microscopic optomechanical device

Trapping light and mechanical waves within a tiny bullseye, design could enable more sensitive motion detection.

Advancing GaN-on-Silicon for scalable high electron mobility transistors

Researchers have advanced gallium nitride (GaN)-on-silicon transistor technology by optimizing the composition of the semiconductor layers that make up the device. The team created the high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) structure on a 200 mm silicon substrate with a process that will scale to larger industry-standard wafer sizes.

Lining up for new high-density memory devices

Unique magnetic coupling found in vertically aligned nanocomposite films shrink devices and let them withstand higher temperatures.

Light strikes gold

Scientists advance the precision controlled synthesis of gold nanocrystals, which could create new catalysts that improve industrial energy efficiency.

The origin of ultrahigh piezoelectric response

An international team of scientists may have solved the 30-year-old riddle of why certain ferroelectric crystals exhibit extremely strong piezoelectric responses.

Efficient nanowire solution for a big-name pollutant

Researchers designed an extremely efficient catalytic system to remove carbon monoxide.

Nanoparticle catalysts outperform single metal atoms

Scientists have determined that the active sites for two reactions involving carbon dioxide (carbon monoxide oxidation and water-gas shift) are associated with small platinum particles and not single platinum atoms as previously proposed.