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Striped or checkered? Magnetic field influences competing electronic patterns in a graphene-like quantum material
Researchers at OIST and Hiroshima University have shown that a small magnetic field switches the graphene-like quantum material CeTe₃ between competing electronic patterns — striped and checkerboard. Scanning tunneling microscopy revealed the transformation near absolute zero, driven by electronic frustration coupled to magnetism. The findings, published in Nature Communications, offer a new strategy for controlling collective electronic states in quantum materials with poten
Jul 284 min read


'Electron lighthouse' illuminates new physics
Researchers created an "electron lighthouse" using two lasers to steer electron beams in semiconductors without electricity. This quantum interference breakthrough could transform sensing, telecom & optoelectronics.
Jul 223 min read


Electronics that learn: Würzburg team builds brain-inspired components
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
Jul 133 min read


Nanotube-based thermoelectrics open a new pathway to waste-heat energy conversion
A research team has identified a mechanism that could help overcome the efficiency limitations of thermoelectric devices that convert waste heat into electricity using a “hollow silicon nanotube” structure. The findings were published in Nano Energy, a leading international academic journal in the field of energy and nanotechnology.
Jun 243 min read


When order gives way to chaos: the turbulent birth of magnetic nanovortices
A team of researchers from the Max Born Institute, the Ferdinand Braun Institute, the University of Augsburg, and the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin has succeeded in directly imaging the effect of short current pulses on a skyrmion.
May 262 min read


Quantum metallurgy: Electron crystals deform and melt
Electrons can arrange into crystalline patterns that accumulate defects as they melt; controlling the degree of melting may advance superconductors and artificial neurons
May 115 min read
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