Strange Silk: Why Rappelling Spiders Don’t Spin Out of Control
WASHINGTON, D.C., July 7, 2017 — The last time you watched a spider drop from the ceiling on a line of silk, it likely descended gracefully on […]
Vortex-Antivortex Pairs Found in Magnetic Trilayers
WASHINGTON, D.C., June, 28, 2017 — A international team of researchers has discovered magnetic vortex-antivortex pairs arising from correlated electron spins in a newly engineered trilayer material. […]
Magnetoelectric Memory Cell Increases Energy Efficiency for Data Storage
WASHINGTON, D.C., May 30, 2017 — Today’s computers provide storage of tremendous quantities of information with extremely large data densities, but writing and retrieving this information expends […]
Collecting real-time data about material microstructural evolution during radiation exposure
WASHINGTON, D.C., May 23, 2017 — It may be surprising to learn that much remains unknown about radiation’s effects on materials. To find answers, Massachusetts Institute of […]
Engaging Diamond for Next-Era Transistors
WASHINGTON, D.C., May 16, 2017 — As consumers around the world have become increasingly dependent on electronics, the transistor, a semiconductor component central to the operation of […]
Looking at Light to Explore Superconductivity in Boron-Diamond Films
WASHINGTON, D.C., May 9, 2017 — More than a decade ago, researchers discovered that when they added boron to the carbon structure of diamond, the combination was […]
Light Has New Capacity for Electronics
WASHINGTON, D.C., April 27, 2017 — Characters in some of the more futuristic science fiction films, like “Minority Report” and “Iron Man,” control computer displays with slick […]
Growth Under Pressure: New Metamaterial Designed with Counterintuitive Property
WASHINGTON, D.C., April 24, 2017 — In the not-too-distant future, it may be possible to 3-D print virtually anything. Consider standard printers, which “synthesize” thousands of colors […]
‘Indistinguishable photons’ key to advancing quantum technologies
WASHINGTON, D.C., April 11, 2017 — To really take off, advanced quantum information processing will require getting a better (experimental) grasp of an essential phenomenon called “indistinguishable […]