Scientists have discovered how optical signal transmission can be controlled, which could lead to integration of plasmonics with electronic circuits.
Combining ferroelectrics and graphene for data storage
New system uses two-dimensional structures to guide plasmonic waves at ultrashort wavelength, offering a new platform for memory and computer chips.
New microscopy technique to understand nanomagnets
NIST’s heterodyne magneto-optic microwave microscope can measure collective dynamics of electrons’ spins in individual magnets as small as 100 nanometers.
January Highlights from physica status solidi
Topological Insulators, solar-cell silicon, and crystallization kinetics– these and more in January’s physics highlights.
New Insight into an Intriguing State of Magnetism
Scientists from Berkeley and TU Munich investigate magnons in a material that becomes helimagnetic below about 30 kelvin: iron silicide doped with cobalt.
Point of Light: nanofocusing in plasmonic waveguides
Engineers create a device that can focus light into a point of just a few nanometers, with applications in computing, communications, and imaging.
Seeing in color at the nanoscale
Berkeley Lab scientists develop a new nanotech tool to probe solar-energy conversion.
New Carbon Materials for Faster Computers and Better Mobile Phones
Graphene and carbon nanotubes could improve the electronics used in computers and mobile phones, reveals new research from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
Industrial Ion Sources
Introduction 1. Gridded ion sources 2. Gridless industrial broad beam ion sources 3. Main operational parameters 4. Regime of non-self-sustained discharge and its importance 5. Ion source and vacuum chamber 6. Oscillations and instabilities in ion sources 7....
Perfectly spherical gold nanodroplets produced with smallest-ever nanojets
Using plasmonic hotspots, gold nanostructures can be melted and made to produce the smallest nanojets ever observed.