ORNL scientists used new techniques to create long lengths of a composite copper-carbon nanotube material with improved properties for use in electric vehicle traction motors.…
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Army-funded research develop a graphene bolometer sensor with 100,000x higher sensitivity than currently available commercial sensors. Detecting microwave radiation is key to thermal imaging, electronic…
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First empirical study on how users pay visual attention to mobile app designs shows larger and brighter elements don’t catch our eyes after all. As…
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UV-light triggers electron multiplication in nanostructures. Credit: Wisa Förbom The efficiency was so high that at first the researchers had a hard time believing the…
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On the left is a representation of a grid of heptagons in a hyperbolic space. To fit the uniform hyperbolic grid into “flat” space, the…
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The bottom layer of the Janus emitter absorbs the heat inside the vehicle and emits it through the top layer to the atmosphere (indicated in…
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Entangled pairs of photons are generated by and propagate away from qubits placed along a waveguide. Credit: Sampson Wilcox New technique provides a means of…
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An illustration of the new concept’s experimental setup. Credit: Yen Strandqvist/Chalmers University of Technology Communications in space demand the most sensitive receivers possible for maximum…
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Artists impression of an atom qubit in silicon being protected from charge noise caused by imperfections in the material environment. Credit: Tony Melov A team…
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