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Geometry- and Topology-Controlled Nanoarchitectures: Focussed Session
An interplay between two realms is the subject of the Focussed Session: Geometry- and Topology-Controlled Nanoarchitectures at the Joint Meeting of DPG (Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft) and EPS (European Physical Society) Condensed Matter Divisions on March 13, 2018 at the TU Berlin.
Ultrathin Superconducting Film
Physicists have developed a thin nanomaterial with superconducting properties. Below -200°C these materials conduct electricity without loss, levitate magnets and can screen magnetic fields.
High-Quality Epitaxial MgB2 Josephson Junctions Grown by Molecular Beam Epitaxy
With help of in situ reflection high-energy electron diffraction patterns, a method to grow high quality MgB2 films on whole Si wafers by adopting a self-limiting growth process is demonstrated.
One Step Closer to Room-Temperature Superconductivity
Superconductivity has been discovered in highly compressed hydrogen sulphide at an amazing 203 degrees kelvin.
Nanodroplets for Stretchable Superconducting Circuits
A team of researchers from Australia and China, have developed a family of superconducting liquid metals of GaInSn-alloys and their nanodroplets.
Topological phase transitions: 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics 2016 with one half to David J. Thouless and the other half to F. Duncan M. Haldane and J. Michael Kosterlitz for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter.
MRS Spring 2015 Preview: Final show in San Francisco
An outlook to the forthcoming MRS Spring Meeting, to be held from April 6-10, 2015 for the last time in San Francisco, California.
Ribbon-like crystal structure hosts topological surface states
A multinational team lead by the University of Oxford has discovered a novel topological insulator in the form of Sb-doped Bi2Se3 nanowires.
Superconductivity in layered iron germanide
Yang Zou and co-workers have found evidence for superconductivity in YFe2Ge2 with an unusual power-law temperature dependence of the electrical resistivity.