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New Tabletop Instrument Tests Electron Mobility for Next Generation Electronics

WASHINGTON, D.C., May 24, 2016 — The National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, with facilities in Florida and New Mexico, offers scientists access to enormous machines that create […]

Combining nanotextured surfaces with the Leidenfrost effect for extreme water repellency

WASHINGTON, D.C., May 17, 2016 – Combining superhydrophobic surfaces with Leidenfrost levitation—picture a water droplet hovering over a hot surface rather than making physical contact with it—has […]

Peering into tissue stiffness with VIPA-based Brillouin spectroscopy

Washington, D.C., May 17, 2016 — At a microscopic level, every material contains spontaneous sound waves — acoustic phonons — that have properties dependent on the material’s […]

Best of Both Worlds

WASHINGTON, D.C., May 9, 2016 – More, faster, better, cheaper. These are the demands of our device-happy and data-centered world. Meeting these demands requires technologies for processing […]

Cooling Chips with the Flip of a Switch

WASHINGTON, D.C., April 5, 2016 – Turn on an electric field, and a standard electrocaloric material will eject heat to its surroundings as its internal dipoles reorder […]

Breaking metamaterial symmetry with reflected light

Washington, D.C., April 5, 2016 — Optical activity—rotation of the polarization of light—is well known to occur within materials that differ from their mirror image. But what happens […]

Printing Nanomaterials with Plasma

Washington, D.C., March 22, 2016 — Printing has come a long way since the days of Johannes Gutenberg. Now, researchers have developed a new method that uses […]

Scratching the Surface: Real-Time Monitoring of Surface Changes at the Atomic Level

WASHINGTON D.C., MARCH 15, 2016 – A team of researchers at Aix Marseille Université in Marseille, France led by Dr. Frédéric Leroy developed a technique that allows […]

Warming Up Optoelectronic Research

WASHINGTON, D.C., March 7, 2016 — A team of physicists from the University of California, San Diego and The University of Manchester is creating tailor-made materials for […]