Quantum Entanglement of Electrons Using Heat
Quantum entanglement is key for next-generation computing and communications technology, Aalto researchers can now produce it using temperature differences. A joint group of scientists from…
Graphene
Supercapacitors Challenge Batteries: Powerful Graphene Hybrid Material for Highly Efficient Energy Storage
A team working with Roland Fischer, Professor of Inorganic and Metal-Organic Chemistry at the Technical University Munich (TUM) has developed a highly efficient supercapacitor. The…
New Understanding of Ionic Interactions With Graphene and Water Could Improve Water Purification Processes and Electric Energy Storage
A research team led by Northwestern engineers and Argonne National Laboratory researchers have uncovered new findings into the role of ionic interaction within graphene and…
New Material System Developed to Convert and Generate Terahertz Waves for Tomorrow’s Technologies
On the electromagnetic spectrum, terahertz light is located between infrared radiation and microwaves. It holds enormous potential for tomorrow’s technologies: Among other things, it might…
Method Invented to “Sketch” Quantum Devices With Focused Electrons
Technique is 10,000 faster than previous methods, and can create active nanostructured gates directly below two-dimensional materials such as graphene. It has long been a…
Ultrasensitive Microwave Detector Developed – Enabling Technology for Next-Generation Quantum Computers
A joint international research team from POSTECH of South Korea, Raytheon BBN Technologies, Harvard University, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the U.S., Barcelona Institute…
Amazing Twist: “Magic” Angle Graphene and the Creation of Unexpected Topological Quantum States
Electrons inhabit a strange and topsy-turvy world. These infinitesimally small particles have never ceased to amaze and mystify despite the more than a century that…
Direct Visualization of Quantum Dots Reveals Shape of Quantum Wave Function of the Trapped Electrons
Researchers used a scanning tunneling microscope to visualize quantum dots in bilayer graphene, an important step toward quantum information technologies. Trapping and controlling electrons in…
Decades Old Mystery Solved: A “New Kind of Electrons”
Why do certain materials emit electrons with a very specific energy? This has been a mystery for decades — scientists at TU Wien have found…
Laser Writing Breathes Life Into High-Performance Sensing Platforms
A simple method developed at KAUST uses laser beams to create graphene electrodes that have better performance than those produced through older methods. Electrodes consisting…
Findings to Help Achieve Holy Grail of 2D Materials – Superfast Electronic Devices
Researchers discover new family of quasiparticles in graphene-based materials. A group of researchers led by Sir Andre Geim and Dr. Alexey Berdyugin at The University…
A New and Efficient Way to Create Nanographene for Power and Display Devices
Nanographene is a material that is anticipated to radically improve solar cells, fuel cells, LEDs, and more. Typically the synthesis of this material has been…
Efficient Brain-Based Computing Using Graphene-Based Memory Resistors
As progress in traditional computing slows, new forms of computing are coming to the forefront. At Penn State, a team of engineers is attempting to…
Rare Form of Magnetism Unlocked by Stacking and Twisting Graphene
Twisting a monolayer and a bilayer sheet of graphene into a three-layer structure leads to new quantum mechanical states. Since the discovery of graphene more…
Graphene Detector Reveals THz Light’s Polarization Using Interference of Plasma Waves
Physicists have created a broadband detector of terahertz radiation based on graphene. The device has potential for applications in communication and next-generation information transmission systems,…
U.S. Army Creates Sensor With 100,000 Times Higher Sensitivity – Improves Thermal Imaging, Electronic Warfare, Communications
Better detection of microwave radiation will improve thermal imaging, electronic warfare, radio communications. Army-funded research developed a new microwave radiation sensor with 100,000 times higher…
SARS-CoV-2 RapidPlex: New Sensor Rapidly Detects COVID-19 Infection
One feature of the COVID-19 virus that makes it so difficult to contain is that it can be easily spread to others by a person…
The Art of Making Tiny Holes: Processing Surfaces on an Atomic Scale
How can you perforate an atomic layer of material and leave the one underneath intact? Scientists at TU Wien (Vienna) developed a technique for processing…