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Stretching of microfabricated diamonds pave ways for applications in next-generation microelectronics.
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Dang Chaoqun / City University of Hong Kong
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Diamond is the hardest material in nature. But out of many expectations, it also has great potential as an excellent electronic material. A joint research team led by City University of Hong Kong (CityU) has demonstrated for the first time the large, uniform tensile elastic straining of microfabricated diamond arrays through the nanomechanical approach. Their findings have shown the potential of strained diamonds as prime candidates for advanced functional devices in microelectronics, photonics, and quantum information technologies.
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Home > Press > Spontaneous robot dances highlight a new kind of order in active matter
When a swarm of smarticles is made to interact in a confined space, they form stunningly symmetric dances whose choreography emerges spontaneously from the physics of low rattling.
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Thomas A. Berrueta
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Predicting when and how collections of particles, robots, or animals become orderly remains a challenge across science and engineering.
Spontaneous robot dances highlight a new kind of order in active matter
Atlanta, GA | Posted on January 1st, 2021
In the 19th century, scientists and engineers developed the discipline of statistical mechanics, which predicts how groups of simple particles transition between order and disorder, as when a collection of randomly colliding atoms freezes to form a uniform crystal lattice.
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Home > Press > Researchers develop new way to break reciprocity law: The breakthrough makes a significant step forward in photonics and microwave technology by eliminating the need for bulky magnets
One-way light transmission.
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Xuchen Wang / Aalto University
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An international research team lead by Aalto University has found a new and simple route to break the reciprocity law in the electromagnetic world, by changing material properties periodically in time. The breakthrough could help to create efficient nonreciprocal devices, such as compact isolators and circulators, that are needed for the next generation of microwave and optical communications systems.
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Home > Press > Nanomaterials researchers in Finland, the United States and China have created a color atlas for 466 unique varieties of single-walled carbon nanotubes.
A color map illustrates the inherent colors of 466 types of carbon nanotubes with unique (n,m) designations based on their chiral angle and diameter. (Image courtesy of Kauppinen Group/Aalto University)
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Nanomaterials researchers in Finland, the United States and China have created a color atlas for 466 unique varieties of single-walled carbon nanotubes.
Nanomaterials researchers in Finland, the United States and China have created a color atlas for 466 unique varieties of single-walled carbon nanotubes.
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Home > Press > An LED that can be integrated directly into computer chips: The advance could cut production costs and reduce the size of microelectronics for sensing and communication
MIT researchers have developed a bright, efficient silicon LED, pictured, that can be integrated directly onto computer chips. The advance could reduce cost and improve performance of microelectronics that use LEDs for sensing or communication.
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Light-emitting diodes LEDs can do way more than illuminate your living room. These light sources are useful microelectronics too.
An LED that can be integrated directly into computer chips: The advance could cut production costs and reduce the size of microelectronics for sensing and communication