Pinning Down Superconductivity to a Single Layer

Physics / Superconductivity

Oct 29, 2009 | 4.9 / 5 (16) | 28

(PhysOrg.com) -- Using precision techniques for making superconducting thin films layer-by-layer, physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have identified a single layer ...

Danish nanowires have great potential

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

Nov 02, 2009 | 3 / 5 (1) | 0

Danish nanophysicists have developed a new method for manufacturing the cornerstone of nanotechnology research - nanowires. The discovery has great potential for the development of nanoelectronics and highly ...

Russian bomb physicist Ginzburg dead at 93

Physics / General Physics

Nov 09, 2009 | 5 / 5 (6) | 0

Nobel Physics prize winner Vitaly Ginzburg, who helped develop the Soviet hydrogen bomb, has died at age 93, the Russian Academy of Sciences said Monday.

Quantum gas microscope offers glimpse of quirky ultracold atoms

Physics / Quantum Physics

Nov 04, 2009 | 4.6 / 5 (19) | 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists at Harvard University have created a quantum gas microscope that can be used to observe single atoms at temperatures so low the particles follow the rules of quantum mechanics, ...

New study confirms exotic electric properties of graphene

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

Nov 17, 2009 | 4.8 / 5 (23) | 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- First, it was the soccer-ball-shaped molecules dubbed buckyballs. Then it was the cylindrically shaped nanotubes. Now, the hottest new material in physics and nanotechnology is graphene: ...