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New Oxide and Semiconductor Combination Builds New Device Potential

WASHINGTON, D.C., January 10, 2018 — Insulating oxides are oxygen containing compounds that do not conduct electricity, but can sometimes form conductive interfaces when they’re layered together […]

Silver Nanoparticles Take Spectroscopy to New Dimension

WASHINGTON, D.C., January 2, 2018 — As medicine and pharmacology investigate nanoscale processes, it has become increasingly important to identify and characterize different molecules. Raman spectroscopy, a […]

Hybrid Electrolyte Enhances Supercapacitance in Vertical Graphene Nanosheets

WASHINGTON, D.C., December 5, 2017 — Supercapacitors can store more energy than and are preferable to batteries because they are able to charge faster mainly due to […]

Strain-Free Epitaxy of Germanium Film on Mica

WASHINGTON, D.C., November 17, 2017 — Germanium, an elemental semiconductor, was the material of choice in the early history of electronic devices, before it was largely replaced […]

Opening the Van der Waals’ Sandwich

WASHINGTON, D.C., October 31, 2017 — Eighty years after the theoretical prediction of the force required to overcome the van der Waals’ bonding between layers in a […]

Models Clarify Physics at Photocathode Surfaces

WASHINGTON, D.C., October 25, 2017 — Photocathodes used in linear accelerator facilities, free electron lasers and advanced X-ray light sources generate a beam of electrons to probe […]

Piezoelectrics stretch their potential with a method for flexible sticking

WASHINGTON, D.C., October 25, 2017 — Piezoelectric materials are used for applications ranging from the spark igniter in barbeque grills to the transducers needed by medical ultrasound […]

Origami lattice paves the way for new noise-dampening barriers on the road

WASHINGTON, D.C., October 17, 2017 — Managing traffic noise pollution has vexed researchers in large part because of the broad range of frequencies we encounter on the […]

Tungsten Offers Nano-Interconnects a Path of Least Resistance

WASHINGTON, D.C., October 4, 2017 — As microchips become ever smaller and therefore faster, the shrinking size of their copper interconnects leads to increased electrical resistivity at […]