Figure 1. Schematic of the waveguide-integrated van der Waals PN heterojunction photodetector. Credit: Light Publishing Center, Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics And Physics, CAS…
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With a grant from Independent Research Fund Denmark, a team of researchers and experts from industry and
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Snowflakes etched in graphene at Skoltech. The light areas are graphene, and the dark ones are oxidized copper. The snowflake pattern emerged as the surrounding…
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Illustration of edge magnetism discovered in CrGeTe3 using nanoscale magnetic microscopy. Credit: Ori Lerman Working with the tiniest magnets, Hebrew University discovers a new magnetic…
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Team collaborates on assembling and testing “rock star” system 4,100 feet underground A team of scientists has assembled a first-of-its-kind system to help them understand…
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This system, containing blue-green algae, powered a microprocessor continuously for a year using nothing but ambient light and water. Credit: Paolo Bombelli Algae-Powered Computing Scientists…
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Illustration of the gold-graphene structure in which electron waves from real and virtual charges are targeted with two ultrafast laser pulses. The combined effect can…
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Researchers constructed self-assembled, protein-based circuits that can perform simple logic functions to demonstrate that it is possible to create stable digital circuits that take advantage…
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Waste carbon from farms, sewage and other sources can be processed into high-grade bio-based fuels more easily with a new PNNL-developed flow cell. In this…
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NeuroMechFly, the first accurate “digital twin” of the fly Drosophila melanogaster, offers a highly valuable testbed for studies that advance biomechanics and biorobotics. This could…
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