Sep 13, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Extreme conditions prevail inside stars and planets. The pressure reaches millions of bars, and it can be several million degrees hot. Sophisticated methods make it possible to create such states of matter in the laboratory – albeit only for the blink of an eye and...
Researchers discover new way to make ‘atomic lasagna’
Sep 13, 2024 (Nanowerk News) A research team discovered a method to transform materials with three-dimensional atomic structures into nearly two-dimensional structures – a promising advancement in controlling their properties for chemical, quantum, and semiconducting applications. The field of materials chemistry seeks to understand, at an atomic level, not only...
New discovery aims to improve the design of microelectronic devices
Sep 13, 2024 (Nanowerk News) A new study led by researchers at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities is providing new insights into how next-generation electronics, including memory components in computers, breakdown or degrade over time. Understanding the reasons for degradation could help improve efficiency of data storage solutions. The...
Researchers unveil new approach to magnetic topological insulators
Sep 12, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Researchers from Monash University, part of the FLEET Centre, have revealed a generic approach towards intrinsic magnetic second-order topological insulators. These materials are crucial for advancements in spintronics, an emerging field aiming at using spin degree of freedom to deliver information. Background Two-dimensional ferromagnetic semiconductors,...