Month: November 2022

Nov 22, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Researchers at MIT have made significant steps toward creating robots that could practically and economically assemble nearly anything, including things much larger than themselves, from vehicles to buildings to larger robots. The new work, from MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms (CBA), builds on years...

Nov 22, 2022 (Nanowerk Spotlight) Topology is the branch of mathematics that explores the nature of shapes independent of deformation. Physicists developed the concept of the phases of matter with properties that are defined by the topology rather than the size and shape of the material or impurities. Recent investigations...

Nov 22, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Amoebae are single-cell organisms. By means of self-organization, they can form complex structures – and do this purely through local interactions: If they have a lot of food, they disperse evenly through a culture medium. But if food becomes scarce, they emit the messenger known...

Nov 21, 2022 (Nanowerk News) A breakthrough discovery at University of Limerick in Ireland has revealed for the first time that unconventional brain-like computing at the tiniest scale of atoms and molecules is possible. Researchers at University of Limerick’s Bernal Institute worked with an international team of scientists to create...

Nov 21, 2022 (Nanowerk News) A new technology developed at Tel Aviv University makes it possible to destroy cancerous tumors in a targeted manner, via a combination of ultrasound and the injection of nanobubbles into the bloodstream. According to the research team, unlike invasive treatment methods or the injection of...

Nov 21, 2022 (Nanowerk News) Tiny magnetic whirlpools could transform memory storage in high performance computers. Magnets generate invisible fields that attract certain materials. A common example is fridge magnets. Far more important to our everyday lives, magnets also can store data in computers. Exploiting the direction of the magnetic...

Nov 21, 2022 (Nanowerk News) A new light source generates ultrashort infrared pulses at wavelengths around 12 µm with previously unattained peak intensity and stability. First experiments in vibrational spectroscopy on water demonstrate the high potential of the system for applications. Ultrashort light pulses represent an important tool in basic...

Nov 21, 2022 (Nanowerk Spotlight) 'Chemical energy' is a term for the energy stored in the covalent bonds that are holding atoms together in the form of molecules. So-called 'energetic materials' store a large amount of this chemical energy that, when released, can be converted into electric, thermal, or mechanical...

Home > Press > HKUST researchers develop a novel integration scheme for efficient coupling between III-V and silicon High-performance Si-waveguide coupled III-V photodetectors grown on SOI CREDIT Credit: The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Abstract:Researchers at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) has recently...

Home > Press > NIST’s grid of quantum islands could reveal secrets for powerful technologies Researchers created a grid of quantum dots (center) ranging from one to three phosphorus atoms deposited onto a plane embedded in silicon and studied the properties of electrons injected into the grid. CREDIT Wang...