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Deep-Depletion: A New Concept for MOSFETs

WASHINGTON, D.C., October 26, 2017 — Silicon has provided enormous benefits to the power electronics industry. But performance of silicon-based power electronics is nearing maximum capacity. Enter […]

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 […]

Force Field Analysis Provides Clues to Protein-Ion Interaction

WASHINGTON, D.C., October 17, 2017 — Muscle twitching, lactose digestion, blood movement — what could possibly connect these body functions? You may be surprised to learn that […]

The Drop That’s Good to the Very End

WASHINGTON, D.C., October 17, 2017 — Even in ancient Greece, philosopher Aristotle tried to sum up all the ways that water can behave. Now, about 2,400 years […]

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 […]

Active Sieving Could Improve Dialysis and Water Purification Filters

WASHINGTON, D.C., October 17, 2017 — Physicists from École Normale Supérieure and Paris Science and Letters University in France have proven theoretically that active sieving, as opposed […]

Probing Exotic Ices

WASHINGTON, D.C., October 10, 2017 — Water is everywhere. But it’s not the same everywhere. When frozen under extreme pressures and temperatures, ice takes on a range […]

Spin-Current Generation Gets Mid-IR Boost with Plasmonic Metamaterial

WASHINGTON, D.C., October 10, 2017 — Over the last few years, researchers have demonstrated that light can serve as a spin-current generator, creating currents of angular momentum, […]