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Mar 18, 2010
An important step towards testing Schrödinger's cat paradox
Trapped ions go for a quantum walk
Mar 17, 2010
Longest quantum walk to date could lead to computing applications
Electrical signals transmitted via spin waves
Mar 16, 2010
Insulator-based "spin wiring" could boost spintronics
Enter the 'thermopower wave'
Mar 16, 2010
New way of generating electricity may enable micro power sources for nano devices
Plasmonic nanostructures enhance light fields
Mar 12, 2010
Tower- and pagoda-type composite structures probed using fluorescence technique
Graphene makes ultrafast laser
Mar 11, 2010
Cambridge University team's result paves the way to graphene-based photonics
Are DC mobility extractions for nanostructures trustworthy?
Mar 10, 2010
Pulsed characterization pinpoints problems in direct-current measurement of CNT devices
TR-mode AFM shares STM success
Mar 9, 2010
Torsion resonance (TR) feedback isolates performance-enhancing tip-sample interaction
Junctionless transistor makes its debut
Mar 2, 2010
First proposed in 1925, device could revolutionize electronics
Crystal control moves towards 3D displays
Mar 2, 2010
Doping nanocrystals fine tunes emission spectra from green to white and blue
Graphene for bioelectronics
Feb 26, 2010
Harvard and NCNST team interfaces graphene to living cells for the first time
Nanofibres in a spin
Feb 25, 2010
Researchers in Italy succeed in rotating polymer nanofibres using just light
First 'heavy-fermion' material made in 2D
Feb 23, 2010
Layered material could shed light on origin of high-temperature superconductivity
Scaffold fine-tunes organic electronics
Feb 19, 2010
Rigid molecule allows electronic properties of molecular materials to be controlled over large distances
'Broadband plasmonics' makes its debut
Feb 18, 2010
2D metallic nanostructures support plasmon resonances over wide frequency range
Graphene oxide goes large scale
Feb 12, 2010
Rutgers team has grown material on large-area silicon wafers
Black nanoneedles for anti-reflective coatings
Feb 11, 2010
Ge nanostructures could be used in high-performance photodetectors and photovoltaic devices
Metallic nanostructures formed in nanoseconds
Feb 10, 2010
Excimer laser assisted direct imprint technique speeds up and simplifies patterning
Physicists watch entropy in action
Feb 9, 2010
Cluster formation ruled by rotational and vibrational symmetry