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MIT advancing research into spintronic memory devices with new process to make skyrmions
Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Mass. have published three separate papers demonstrating the ability to produce record-setting, stable, and fast-moving skyrmions, magnetic quasi-particles with the potential for use in spintronics memory devices, at room temperature. details>> -
After two decades of research, scientists create the first laser-cooled neutral plasma
Researchers from Rice University (Dallas, Texas) completed 20 years of study by developing the first laser-cooled neutral plasma, which involves cooling clouds of expanding plasma to temperatures 50 times colder than deep space. details>> -
Researchers create graphene-based terahertz detector, potential for use in wireless data transfer
Researchers from the Moscow (Russia) Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT), in collaboration with scientists from the U.K., Japan, and Italy, developed a terahertz radiation photodetector from bilayer graphene sandwiched between crystals of boron nitride and attached to a terahertz antenna. details>> -
High-energy X-ray beams reveals secrets of reactions that lead to nanoscale crystal formation
Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta used high-energy X-ray beams to visualize high-pressure (1,800 pounds per square inch), high-temperature (more than 200�C) chemical reactions to determine what factors into the creation of different nanoscale crystalline structures in cobalt. details>> -
Researchers demonstrate that electron spin is key to high-temperature superconductivity
Researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley, Calif.) discovered that electron spin is a key property to explain the high-temperature superconductivity of cuprates. details>> -
Researchers use new tools to create phase diagram of high-temperature superconductor
The study of superconductivity is frequently reaching new milestones, as researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory (Upton, N.Y.) used novel tools, called OASIS, to create a phase diagram of high-temperature superconductors. details>> -
Scientists develop cost-effective, highly-efficient, flexible thermoelectric generator module
Researchers at Osaka (Japan) University developed a cost-effective, large-scale, and highly-efficient flexible thermoelectric generator module (FlexTEG) that improves the thermoelectric conversion of waste heat from curved sources. details>> -
Scientists develop phase-change materials triggered by light for thermal energy storage
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Mass. developed specially-designed photoswitching molecules that absorbs heat as it melts and releases thermal energy as it solidifies but only when triggered by light. details>> -
Ultra-fast camera system enables scientists to visualize interactions between electrons
Researchers at the Institute of Experimental and Applied Physics at Kiel (Germany) University (CAU) used an ultrafast camera system to study the energy exchange of irradiated graphite electrons and the environment in real time. details>> -
Room temperature switching in ultrathin material could lead to topological transistors
Researchers at Monash University (Australia) and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley, Calif.) demonstrated, for the first time, room temperature electrical switching in ultrathin sodium bismuthide (Na3Bi), a topological Dirac semimetal, which could be a breakthrough for next-generation transistors. details>>