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Study Shows Long Coherence Times Possible When Spin-Orbit Coupling is Stronger

A group of international scientists have substantially lengthened the duration of time that a spin-orbit qubit in silicon can retain quantum information for, opening up a new pathway to make silicon quantum computers more scalable and functional.

21 Jul 2020

New Apparatus Achieves Chemical Reactions at Ultracold Temperatures

In a famous parable, three blind men encounter an elephant for the first time. Each touches a part--the trunk, ear, or side--and concludes the creature is a thick snake, fan, or wall.

21 Jul 2020

Physicists Take Very Fast Snapshots of Light-Induced Ring-Opening Reactions

Kansas State University physicists have taken extremely fast snapshots of light-induced molecular ring-opening reactions -- similar to those that help a human body produce vitamin D from sunlight.

21 Jul 2020

Researchers Find New Type of Exciton in Magnetic van der Waals Material NiPS3

Things can always be done faster, but can anything beat light- Computing with light instead of electricity is seen as a breakthrough to boost the computer speeds.

21 Jul 2020

New Magnetic Nanodisks Could be Used for Neurostimulation

In addition to responding to electrical and chemical stimuli, many of the body's neural cells can also respond to mechanical effects, such as pressure or vibration.

21 Jul 2020

SLAC Researchers Achieve Full X-Ray Laser Performance Using Undulators

Just over a decade ago in April 2009, the world's first hard X-ray free-electron laser produced its first light at the US Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.

21 Jul 2020

Novel Technology Developed to Mass-Produce Bio-Aviation Fuels

A Korean research team has developed a key technology for the mass-production of bio-aviation fuels.

20 Jul 2020

New Nanometric Method Could Help Probe Local Thermal Processes

The miniaturisation of electronic components coupled with their increasing integration density has considerably expanded heat flows, which can lead to overheating.

20 Jul 2020

New Ternary Nanocomposites Developed for Supercapacitors by Electrostatic Spinning

In a paper published in NANO, a group of researchers from Jiangsu University of Technology, China have developed novel Cu2O-Mn3O4-NiO ternary nanocomposites by electrostatic spinning technology, which improved the performance of supercapacitors electrode materials.

20 Jul 2020

New Electrocatalytic Materials Could Improve Zinc-Air Battery Performance

In a report published in NANO, a team of researchers from Sichuan University of Science and Engineering, China have developed N-doped carbon encapsulated transition metal catalysts for oxygen reduction reactions and oxygen evolution reactions to optimize performance of zinc-air batteries.

20 Jul 2020

New Study Could Help Understand Mechanism for Breaking Down Nitrogen Gas

A key mystery about the gas comprising most of our atmosphere is closer to being solved following a discovery by University of California, Irvine biologists.

20 Jul 2020

Carrier Trapping Suppression in 2D Perovskite Significantly Enhances Emission

Two-dimensional organic-inorganic halide perovskites are emerging materials for photovoltaic and optoelectronic applications due to their unique physical properties and a high degree of tunability.

20 Jul 2020

New, Robust Electrometric Method Based on Continuous Dynamic Decoupling

A team led by Prof. DU Jiangfeng, Prof. SHI Fazhan and Prof. WANG Ya from University of Science and Technology of China of the Chinese Academy of Sciences proposed a robust electrometric method utilizing continuous dynamic decoupling technique, where the continuous driving fields provide a magnetic-field-resistant dressed frame.

20 Jul 2020

Copper Bound to Oxygen is Better at Converting CO2 into Renewable Fuels

They say it's better to have had something special and lost it than to have never had it at all. Who would have thought that sentiment holds true for metal oxide catalysts.

20 Jul 2020

$New Efficient Full-Path Method to Calculate Optical Diffraction$

New Efficient Full-Path Method to Calculate Optical Diffraction

Diffraction is a classic optical phenomenon accounting for the light propagation. The efficient calculation of diffraction is of significant value towards the real-time prediction of light fields.

20 Jul 2020