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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

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.

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.

Electrons can arrange into crystalline patterns that accumulate defects as they melt; controlling the degree of melting may advance superconductors and artificial neurons

Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin and the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter (MPSD) in Hamburg found that electronic fluctuations can dynamically bridge vibrations that symmetry would normally keep separate.

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