Eco-friendly process that enables unprecedented spatial control over the electrical properties of graphene oxide

By using the probe of an atomic force microscope to trigger a local chemical reaction, researchers showed that electrically conductive features as small as four nanometers can be patterned into individual graphene oxide sheets.

Nanoelectronics researchers employ supercomputer for an electrifying simulation speedup

Scientists are using America's fastest supercomputer to make huge gains in understanding the smallest electronic devices.

Silver: The promising electrode winner for low-cost perovskite solar cells

A new study reveals a cause for the short lifetime of perovskite solar cells with silver electrodes.

Researchers grow nanocircuitry with semiconducting graphene nanoribbons

In a development that could revolutionize electronic ciruitry, researchers have confirmed a new way to control the growth paths of graphene nanoribbons on the surface of a germainum crystal.

Toward clearer, cheaper imaging of ultrafast phenomena

A new, all-optical method for compressing narrow electron pulses to a billionth of a billionth of a second could improve real-time movies of chemical reactions and other ultrafast processes.

Quantum coherent-like state observed in a biological protein for the first time

So-called Froehlich condensation, a state in which protein molecules' vibrational modes coalesce at the lowest frequency, was first predicted almost five decades ago, but never experimentally demonstrated until now.

A resonator for electrons

Resonators are an important tool in physics. The curved mirrors inside the resonators usually focus light waves that act, for instance, on atoms. Physicists have now managed to build a resonator for electrons and to direct the standing waves thus created onto an artificial atom.