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• Research team explains thermal transport between ferromagnetic metals and a semiconductor

  Scientists from the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IFJ PAN) in Krakow, the Karlsruhe (Germany) Institute of Technology (KIT), the Paul Drude Institut f�r Festk�rperelektronik in Berlin and the DESY research Centre in Hamburg calculated the interactions between electrons at the interface of ferromagnetic metals and semiconductors, which determine heat flow. details>>

• Researchers create method for producing nanoscale versions of 3-D structures

  Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Mass. have not yet developed the suit worn in the Ant-Man movies, but they have created a fabrication technique that can precisely build any 3-D structure in a nanoscale version. details>>

• Researchers manipulate electrons to create electronic roadways in bilayer graphene

  Researchers from Penn State University (University Park, Pa.) have developed a method for controlling electrons in bilayer graphene by manipulating them based on their relation to momentum (called the valley degree of freedom), creating electronic roadways for the electrons to travel. details>>

• Researchers discover how to precisely tune graphene properties at the atomic level

  Researchers at the New York University (NYU) Tandon School of Engineering and the Center for Neural Science discovered how to engineer structural defects in graphene to enhance the sensitivity of electrodes composed of the material, which demonstrates potential of engineering graphene properties at the atomic level. details>>

• Scientists devise new strategy for improving heat transfer efficiency of condensers

  A team of scientists from Colorado State University (CSU) in Fort Collins, Colo. have devised a knife-like ridge architecture on superomniphobic surfaces that causes droplets to jump away from the surface with higher kinetic energy than surfaces without ridges. details>>

• Researchers modify semiconductors at atomic level to produce smallest 3-D transistors

  Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Mass. and the University of Colorado (Boulder, Colo.) have demonstrated a microfabrication technique for modifying semiconductors atom by atom that produced a 3-D transistor, which is half the size of the smallest commercial models. details>>

• New material switches from conductor of electricity to insulator without altering atomic structure

  Researchers from the University of Wisconsin - Madison have developed a new material, based on vanadium dioxide, which transitions from conductor of electricity to nonconductive insulator without changing its atomic structure. details>>

• Researchers design passive cooling system that could provide refrigeration for off-grid locations

  Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have devised a new passive cooling solution that uses inexpensive materials, requires no fossil fuel-generated power, and that could provide refrigeration for food or medicine in locations with no access to the power grid. details>>

• Researchers show possibility of supercomputers without waste heat, reducing power consumption

  Scientists at the University of Konstanz (Germany) have demonstrated that lossless electrical transfer (superconductivity) of magnetically encoded information is possible, which could enhance storage density on integrated circuits (IC) and reduce energy consumption of computing centers. details>>

• X-Ray imaging technique could control magnetic structure of materials for next-gen electronics

  Researchers from Rutgers University (Newark, N.J.) and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory (Upton, N.Y.) have demonstrated a new X-Ray imaging technique that allowed scientists to visualize antiphase magnetic domains in antiferromagents (AFM). details>>