A tabletop display with personal screens made from a curtain of mist that allow users to move images around and push thr…

Flawed but colorful diamonds are among the most sensitive detectors of magnetic fields known today, allowing physicists…

First step towards “programmable materials“

Researchers from Empa and ETH Zurich have succeeded in producing a prototype of a vibration-damping material that could…

SLAC, Stanford Study Identifies Long-sought Path Toward Engineering Materials for Super-efficient Nanoelectronics

Researchers used a beam of intense ultraviolet light to look deep into the electronic structure of a material made of al…

Researchers invent a process to "dope" carbon filaments with an additive to improve their electronic performance, paving the way for digital devices that bend.

A team at Stanford has developed a process to create flexible chips that can tolerate power fluctuations in much the sam…

Researchers from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz demonstrate a new principle for magnetic recording / Publication in Nature Nanotechnology

Researchers have predicted and discovered a new physical phenomenon that allows to manipulate the state of a magnet by e…

Whenever a new material is discovered, scientists are eager to find out whether or not it can be superconducting. This a…

An electrode designed like a pomegranate – with silicon nanoparticles clustered like seeds in a tough carbon rind – over…

New types of solotronic structures, including the world’s first quantum dots containing single cobalt ions, have been cr…

Duke University researchers have demonstrated the feasibility of wireless power transfer using low-frequency magnetic fi…

Two Stanford, SLAC labs, one that studies next-generation lithium-ion batteries and another that's working on synthetic…

A double world-first breakthrough in metal manufacturing

To date, the 3D printing revolution has focused on the use of plastics – cheap printers' feedstock and high throughput.…

Method developed at Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Light Source measures electronic changes in a working battery electrode

A new technique developed at Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Light Source could help scientists better understand and improve th…

JILA researchers have developed a method of spinning electric and magnetic fields around trapped molecular ions to measu…

Carbon nanotubes are like tiny hollow wires of carbon just 1 atom thick – similar to graphene but cylindrical. Researche…

Theorists Predict New Single-Layer Material Could Go Beyond Graphene, Conducting Electricity with 100 Percent Efficiency at Room Temperature

A single layer of tin atoms could be the world’s first material to conduct electricity with 100 percent efficiency at th…

UC Santa Barbara researchers demonstrate seamless designing of an atomically-thin circuit with transistors and interconnects etched on a monolayer of graphene

Researchers in electrical and computer engineering at UC Santa Barbara have introduced and modeled an integrated circuit…

Using inexpensive materials configured and tuned to capture microwave signals, researchers at Duke University’s Pratt Sc…

It is the first supercapacitor that is made out of silicon so it can be built into a silicon chip along with the microel…

Use of simulations in the development and testing of interference-avoidance algorithms enables highly reliable automotive radar

The 76-GHz millimeter-wave band has come into widespread use for things like motor vehicle radar, although the 79-GHz ba…