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…
Why do certain materials emit electrons with a very specific energy? This has been a mystery for decades — scientists at TU Wien have found…
In a very unusual way, the electrical and magnetic properties of a particular crystal are linked together — the phenomenon was discovered and explained at…
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…
Oxygen is highly reactive. It accumulates on many surfaces and determines their chemical behavior. At the Vienna University of Technology, scientists study the interaction between…
Advances in neuroscience research and microscopy: a collaborative project driven by researchers of the Max Perutz Labs Vienna, a joint venture of the University of…
Nickel is supposed to herald a new age of superconductivity – but this is proving more difficult than expected. Scientists at TU Wien (Vienna) can…
It was predicted 30 years ago, now the effect was measured for the first time by scientists at TU Wien (Vienna): The neutron spin exhibits…
They had been looking for something completely different, but they found a previously unknown quasi-particle they named pi-ton: A bound state of two electrons, two…
A new, extremely efficient source of terahertz radiation has been developed at TU Wien (Vienna): Lasers turn air into plasma, thereby producing terahertz rays for…
A Remote Control for Everything Small Atoms, molecules or even living cells can be manipulated with light beams. At TU Wien a method was developed…
A new type of material generates electrical current very efficiently from temperature differences. This allows sensors and small processors to supply themselves with energy wirelessly….
With a new process developed at TU Wien (Vienna), living cells can be integrated into fine structures created in a 3D printer — extremely fast…
A very special kind of light is emitted by tungsten diselenide layers. The reason for this has been unclear. Now an explanation has been found…
Is it possible to borrow energy from an empty space? And if yes, do we have to give it back? Energy values smaller than zero…
Scientists from Vienna University believe they may have discovered the long-sought-after glueball, a particle composed of pure force. For decades, scientists have been looking for…
Using an unusual kind of coupling between spin and the direction of propagation, physicists from the Vienna University of Technology are able to select the…
By combining two semiconductor materials, researchers at the Vienna University of Technology have developed a new material that allows for ultra-thin solar cells. Extremely thin,…
In a new study, an international team of researchers mathematically describe how an expanding universe can emerge when time and space are heated, without requiring…