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Optical waveguide microresonators on a chip created in this effort, which are ten times thinner than human hair. @CU Boulder College of Engineering and Applied Science  CU Boulder researchers have built high performing optical microresonators opening the door for new sensor technologies. At its simplest form, a microresonator is a tiny device that can trap light and build up its intensity. Once the intensity is high enough, researchers can perform unique light operations.  “O

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’

Advanced imaging reveals a detailed understanding of the mechanisms driving a previously misunderstood material, researchers say

The study serves as a benchmark for quantum chemical methods in modeling phosphate-containing clusters, opening new pathways for designing more efficient proton-conducting materials and understanding biological proton transfer.

Researchers at The University of Osaka use a nanoreactor to produce pores that mimic biological ion channels

Hair-width LEDs could replace lasers — and a UCSB doctoral student is helping make it happen

Researchers at The University of Manchester's National Graphene Institute have achieved the first atomic‑resolution imaging of monolayer transition metal diiodides, made possible by creating graphene‑sealed TEM samples that prevent these highly reactive materials from degrading on contact with air.

A monolayer of the transition metal dichalcogenide alloy MoWSe₂ with K⁺ and K⁻ valleys. The purple lines indicate the external magnetic field, the application of which leads to the splitting of exciton state energies as a result of the Zeeman effect. This phenomenon is illustrated as different separations between the valence band and the conduction band in the two valleys. @ Grzegorz Krasucki, Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw Scientists from the Faculty of Physics at

Morphological characterization of the Fe 3 S 4 nanosheet-like structures. (a,b) SEM images at different magnifications. (c) TEM image, evidencing the two-dimensional structure, (d) HRTEM image with the corresponding FFT pattern shown in the inset. (e,f) Magnified views of the boxed regions marked in blue and pink in (d), highlighting the crystallographic planes of Fe 3 S 4 . (g−i) Dark-field STEM image and the corresponding EDX elemental mapping of Fe (red) and S (yellow). (

The team developed a platform that uses powerful X-rays from the lab’s LCLS X-ray laser to resolve for the first time the evolution of instabilities in high-density plasmas.

Clusters of 10 tantalum atoms, arranged in triangles, create stress in the crystal’s structure. This stress unlocks unique magnetic properties, essential for future technologies such as quantum computing. Credit: Jewook Park/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, working with international partners, have uncovered surprising behavior in a specially engineered crystal. Composed of tantalum, tungsten and selenium — el

Video showing the blinking quantum dots from the experiment. The researchers turned a laser field on and off to drive them far from equilibrium and modulate their blinking. | Shen, Y., Chen, C., Ma, H., et al. "Non-equilibrium entropy production and information dissipation in a non-Markovian quantum dot." Nat. Phys. (2026), https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-026-03177-8 In order to build the computers and devices of tomorrow, we have to understand how they use energy today. That’