Researchers confirm phosphorus chains exhibit true one-dimensional electron behavior. Tightly packing the chains could trigger a semiconductor-to-metal transition.

In collaboration with IBM Research, a process for automated visual inspection was developed. The core of the project is based ...

A new perspective article outlines a roadmap for harnessing light emission from individual molecules. By precisely ...

Scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have discovered that a specially engineered tantalum-tungsten-selenium crystal spontaneously forms atomic clusters that generate local magnetism where none ...

Shrinking transistors has driven computing performance for decades, but the approach is hitting physical ...

When things vibrate, they make sounds. Molecules do too, but at frequencies far beyond human hearing. Chemical bonds stretch, bend and twist at characteristic rates that fall in the infrared region of ...

Physicists in Leiden have built a microscope that can measure no fewer than four key properties of a material in a single scan, all with nanoscale precision. The instrument can even examine complete ...

You can tell a lot about a material based on the type of light shining at it: Optical light illuminates a material's surface, ...

Engineers at Stanford University have developed a high-efficiency, battery/solar-operated, autonomous microscope with integrated artificial intelligence that automatically diagnoses malaria in blood ...

An international research team has gained new insights into the dynamics of myelin swellings in the brain. Myelin swellings ...