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Silver-based atomic switches that create stable electrical connections between individual molecules and electrodes have been developed by researchers from Japan, addressing a key challenge in wiring molecular electronics. The switch operates by forming and breaking silver atomic filaments when a voltage is applied and reversed, corresponding to the “on” and “off” states. This method enables the scalable integration of molecular components, paving the way for ultra-compact and

By measuring the spin dynamics over a broad energy range with neutron spectroscopy on a single crystal, the team identified a large band splitting of about 60 millielectronvolts (meV) between two magnon branches, a 3 meV anisotropy gap in the lower branch, and an avoided crossing near 75 meV in the upper branch. The researchers were then able to reproduce these important features quantitatively using theoretical calculations based on spin-wave theory.

To visualize a quantum well, imagine a marble rolling in a groove between two raised edges. The marble can only move back and forth. A quantum well controls electrical current in a similar way, confining it in an ultrathin layer of material. This confinement improves how quickly you can encode information in light. The new paper shows how to make these wells work even better, whether for quicker downloads and smoother online experiences or for better qubits and more efficient

It is something like the “Holy Grail” of physics: unifying particle physics and gravitation. The world of tiny particles is described extremely well by quantum theory, while the world of gravitation is captured by Einstein’s general theory of relativity. But combining the two has not yet worked – the two leading theories of theoretical physics still do not quite fit together. There are many ideas for such a unification – with names like string theory, loop quantum gravity, ca

With carefully designed tunable active sites, unique structure of new single atom platforms enables strong gas binding in pioneering step towards more efficient industrially-relevant catalysis.

Princeton researchers have developed a diamond-based quantum sensor that reveals rich new information about magnetic phenomena at this minute scale. The technique uncovers fluctuations that are beyond the reach of existing instruments and provides key insight into materials such as graphene and superconductors. Superconductors have enabled today’s most advanced medical imaging tools and form the basis of hoped-for technologies like lossless powerlines and levitating trains. T

Bacteria that multiply on surfaces are a major headache in healthcare when they gain a foothold on, for example, implants or in catheters. Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden have found a new weapon to fight these hotbeds of bacterial growth – one that does not rely on antibiotics or toxic metals. The key lies in a completely new application of this year's Nobel Prize-winning material: metal-organic frameworks. These materials can physically impale, pun

In a new paper published in Light: Science & Applications, a research team led by Professor Inki Kim at the BioNanoPhotonics Laboratory in the Department of Biophysics, Institute of Quantum Biophysics, Sungkyunkwan University, developed a multifocal metalens based on a novel hybrid multiplexing approach to implement ISM and successfully captured super-resolution images of neuronal structures in brain organoids. The proposed hybrid multiplexing method combines two conventional

In a new study, published in Materials Today, a team led by Warwick’s Dr Maksym Myronov achieved a major step towards the next generation of electronics — creating a material using a nanometre-thin, compressively strained germanium epilayer on silicon, that allows electrical charge to move faster than ever before in a material compatible with modern chipmaking. The breakthrough was achieved by carefully engineering a thin germanium layer on top of a silicon wafer. By applying

A research team from the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics succeeded in realising tuneable long-range interactions between atoms. In their study, published in Science, the scientists were able to increase the system’s lifetime by more than a factor of 100 compared to previous experiments. This allows to study the effect of long-range interactions on a microscopic level in tunnel-coupled quantum systems. Notably, the team experimentally observed an unusual binding mechani

On the one hand, pixels ranging in size from 100 to 200 nanometres form the foundation for ultra-high-resolution screens that could display razor-sharp images in glasses worn close to the eye, for example. In order to illustrate this, Shih's team of researchers displayed the ETH Zurich logo. This ETH logo consists of 2,800 nano-OLEDs and is similar in size to a human cell, with each of its pixels measuring around 200 nanometres (0.2 micrometres). The smallest pixels developed

NcodiN, the deep-tech startup pioneering optical interposer technology with integrated nanolasers, has secured €16 million in oversubscribed Seed financing round. The funding will propel NcodiN from R&D to industrial scale, enabling to develop product development, key engineering hires to support the industrialization of its technology in a CMOS pilot line on 300 mm wafers, and the build-out of its supply chain and customer partnerships. The equity round was led by MIG Capita