Nanoengineering boosts semiconducting material’s ability to convert heat into power by 200 percent and its electrical conductivity by 43 percent.

Nanoengineering boosts semiconducting material’s ability to convert heat into power by 200 percent and its electrical conductivity by 43 percent.
Ferroelectricity, Photoconductivity, and auxetic foams – these and more in May’s physics highlights.
The Technische Universität Dresden has celebrated the official opening of a new analytics center – the Dresden Center for Nanoanalysis.
Device is capable of revolutionising technologies for medical imaging and security screening.
Researchers succeed in generating flashes of extreme ultraviolet radiation via the reflection from a mirror that moves close to the speed of light.
Pernice group at KIT use polycrystalline diamond for the fabrication of wafer-based optomechanical circuits.
Researchers have found a new way to switch magnetism that is at least 1000 times faster than currently used in magnetic memory technologies.
Research enables bulk silicon to emit broad-spectrum, visible light, opening the possibility of devices that have both electronic and photonic components.
New optical technologies using “metasurfaces” capable of the ultra-efficient control of light are nearing commercialization.
Professor Geoff Ozin on his “super leaf” challenge – producing fuel by matching nature.