New electronics harness quantum tunnelling to create transistors without semiconductors.
Underground engineering for XFEL completed
Underground civil engineering work for the X-ray laser European XFEL is complete for 2016 startup.
Dr. Angela Belcher awarded 2013 Lemelson-MIT Prize
Leading nanotechnology scientist wins award for research inspired by nature and its ability to create materials.
Spin-Hall effect observation is a step towards "atomtronics"
Researchers at NIST have reported the first observation of the “spin Hall effect” in a Bose-Einstein condensate.
Switchable Diffraction from Liquid Crystal–Carbon Nanotube Hybrids
Voltage-dependent diffraction switching makes a hybrid liquid crystal–carbon nanotube device a good candidate for high-resolution displays.
The New World of Fractal Structuring
Journal of Polymer Science Part B: Polymer Physics advisory board member Han Meijer presents his work on fractal structuring at ANTEC 2013.
A better look into cerebrospinal fluid
New setup for ex vivo detection reveals low concentrations of biomarkers such as circulating tumor cells, bacteria and nanoparticles in cerebrospinal fluid.
Most accessed papers in physica status solidi for April 2013
The most downloaded papers from the pss family of journals in April.
New super-resolution microscopy does not require dyes
Researchers have found a way to see synthetic nanostructures and molecules using a new type of optical microscopy that does not require fluorescent dyes.
New small angle scattering methods boost molecular analysis
Berkeley Lab Researchers develop new metrics for X-ray and neutron analysis of flexible macromolecules.