News tagged with charge state

The art of stabilizing entangled spaghetti-like materials

Gene therapy can only be effective if delivered by a stable complex molecule. Now, scientists have determined the conditions that would stabilise complex molecular structures that are subject to inherent attractions and repulsions ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Nov 28, 2011 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Study raises questions on what causes silicon solar cell degradation

(PhysOrg.com) -- After several hours of exposure to sunlight, silicon solar cells experience light-induced degradation, which can decrease their efficiency by up to 10%. In a new study, scientists have attempted ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Jun 03, 2011 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast feature

Technique reveals quantum phase transition; could lead to superconducting transistors

(PhysOrg.com) -- Like atomic-level bricklayers, researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory are using a precise atom-by-atom layering technique to fabricate an ultrathin ...

Physics / Superconductivity

created Apr 27, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (14) | comments 13 | with audio podcast

Scientists directly measure charge states of atoms using an atomic force microscope

(PhysOrg.com) -- IBM scientists in collaboration with the University of Regensburg, Germany, and Utrecht University, Netherlands, for the first time demonstrated the ability to measure the charge state of ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jun 23, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Graphene Yields Secrets to Its Extraordinary Properties

(PhysOrg.com) -- Applying innovative measurement techniques, researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology and the National Institute of Standards and Technology have directly measured the unusual energy ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 14, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (26) | comments 0

Keep on spinning: A persistent spin state that could revolutionize spintronics

(PhysOrg.com) -- By controlling the collective spin state of highly mobile electrons in semiconductors, researchers in the Materials Sciences Division (MSD) at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley ...

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 02, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (10) | comments 4