Researchers describe the experimental realization of an optical switch controlled by a single photon, allowing light to govern the transmission of light.
One-dimensional wires with suppressed conductivity
Researchers create perfect one-dimensional molecular wires in which the electrical conductivity can almost entirely be suppressed by a weak magnetic field
Molecular database for solar cell researchers
Researchers release massive database of molecules that might be useful in organic solar cells.
Optomechanical sensors improve phonon studies
Researchers applying optomechnical systems to help unlock vibrational secrets of chemical and biological samples at the nanoscale.
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.
Nanoengineering boosts heat to energy conversion
Nanoengineering boosts semiconducting material’s ability to convert heat into power by 200 percent and its electrical conductivity by 43 percent.
May highlights from physica status solidi
Ferroelectricity, Photoconductivity, and auxetic foams – these and more in May’s physics highlights.
Dresden Center for Nanoanalysis opens at TU Dresden, Germany
The Technische Universität Dresden has celebrated the official opening of a new analytics center – the Dresden Center for Nanoanalysis.
Bistable graphene transistor developed
Device is capable of revolutionising technologies for medical imaging and security screening.
Generating UV from a light-speed mirror
Researchers succeed in generating flashes of extreme ultraviolet radiation via the reflection from a mirror that moves close to the speed of light.