Physicists confirm that light has two identities that are impossible to see at once.
Category: Nanotech
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Famous double-slit experiment holds up when stripped to its quantum essentials
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New spectrometer Is small enough to fit on your phone
Researchers built a miniaturized spectrometer that measures UV to near-IR light, enabling handheld devices and future imaging spectrometer arrays.
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Metalenses gain durability, adaptive optics, and self-cleaning capability
Researchers developed a new encapsulation approach for metalenses
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CHIPS Act: U.S. Chip Industry’s Quiet Progress
The U.S. CHIPS and Science Act of 2022 aimed to reestablish advanced manufacturing for logic and memory in the United States, as well as boost or establish other chipmaking activities. The job is far from complete, but a look at where the money…
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Template-guided synthesis enables efficient design of functional molecular cages
Researchers efficiently synthesize functionalized oligophenylene cages using covalent templates and cooperative intermolecular coupling.
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When light collides with light
Light-on-light scattering is an exotic process with surprising significance for particle physics. Researchers show that a previously underestimated effect plays an important role in this process.
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Programmable robotic skin heals, reshapes, and dissolves on demand
A dynamic silicone-based material enables pressure sensors that reshape, heal damage, and disassemble, offering new capabilities for soft robotics and wearables.
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Negative Capacitance Breaks GaN Transistor Limits
Integrating an electronic material that exhibits a strange property called negative capacitance can help high-power gallium nitride transistors break through a performance barrier, say scientists in California. Research published in Science…
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Stable skyrmion bags created in thin ferromagnetic films
Researchers demonstrate a robust method to generate skyrmion bags as complex magnetic spin textures in thin ferromagnetic films for advanced spintronic control. Skyrmion bags are donut-like, topologically rich spin textures that go beyond the…
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Accelerating the discovery of new materials with AI
AI-driven method accelerates discovery of battery materials, boosting capacity and lifespan to support a faster, more sustainable global energy transition.
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