Researchers at NC State have extended twistronics beyond van der Waals materials into strongly bonded crystalline oxides. By stacking sodium niobate membranes with twist angles controlled down to 0.1 degrees, and confirming results via synchrotron X-ray diffraction, the team found interlayer bonds distort the atomic lattice, shifting phase structure and domain configuration. The technique works at near-millimeter scale, far larger than typical twistronic devices, marking a re

Researchers at Würzburg's ctd.qmat Cluster of Excellence have built electronic components that mimic how the human brain learns — using an interface between two oxide materials, lanthanum aluminate and strontium titanate, that's insulating on its own but conductive where the two meet. By precisely controlling how current reshapes this interface, the team created a single nanoscale device that can switch roles: transistor, memory element, or capacitor, depending on how it's wi

Researchers at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) are the first to directly utilize orbital currents without the need for conversion of the orbital current into a spin current. “We have thus realized the first purely orbitronic device approach,” said Dr. Christin Schmitt, a scientist in the research group of Professor Mathias Kläui at the JGU Institute of Physics. Orbitronics is a promising technology for future memory devices, as it could enable the realization of lar

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, in collaboration with Stanford and Purdue, have demonstrated a powerful new way to control heat at the nanoscale. Using carefully engineered metamaterials — microscopic gold patterns on thin membranes — they achieved up to four times more heat transfer across a tiny gap compared to conventional setups.

Rice University researchers have developed a simple new technique to create nanoscale patterns on hard chip materials at room temperature. By layering anisotropic alpha-molybdenum trioxide crystals on silica and exposing them to an electron beam, the team induced controlled stress that forms highly ordered nanoscale wrinkles or ripples.

Researchers at The University of Manchester’s National Graphene Institute have shown that electrons in ultra-clean graphene can be steered with high precision while keeping their spin information intact, a key requirement for future low power electronics and quantum devices.

Theorists at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign address an experimental paradox by developing a general theory uniting a kind of order known as electronic nematicity with a crystal’s elasticity.

Relaxor ferroelectrics have been used in electronics and sensors for decades, but the source of their unique properties was a mystery until now.

Using donor–acceptor chemistry to create ultra-thin ‘nanoribbons’ - just a few atoms wide - could help to shape new electronic materials.

A new paper in Nature Chemistry describes a molecular material that combines a stable internal magnetic structure with almost no external magnetic field. This could prove relevant for energy efficient electronics and spintronics

Nanohole-induced confinement and charge neutralization deliver bright, stable quantum emission without electrical gating

For the first time ever, researchers prove that atomic vibrations can transfer orbital angular momentum directly to electrons in a non-magnetic material with chiral symmatry, the most streamlined system yet in the exciting new field of ‘orbitronics’