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While conventional electronics relies on the transport of electrons, components that convey spin information alone may be many times more energy efficient. Physicists at the Technical University o ...

Hopes ran high when the first representatives of a new class of materials – topological insulators – were discovered some 15 years ago. Researchers predicted that the unique electronic structure of these materials would give rise to special propertie

While conventional electronics relies on the transport of electrons, components that convey spin information alone may be many times more energy

An interdisciplinary team of researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, the Technical University of Munich, and Robert Bosc ...

Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, the Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics at MIT, has received the 2021 Max Planck-Humboldt Research Award from the Max Planck

 E-Mail IMAGE: Michael Grätzel, winner of the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Basic Sciences. view more  Credit: BBVA FOUNDATION The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Basic Sciences category has gone in this thirteenth edition to Paul Alivisatos (University of California, Berkeley, United States) and Michael Grätzel (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland) for their fundamental contributions to the development of new nanomaterials a...

At energies equivalent to temperatures of several thousand Kelvin fragmentation is unexpectedly precise

Selective Bond Breaking with Splat Chemistry February 1, 2021• Physics 14, 13 Colliding a large organic molecule with a surface can break a specific chemical bond in the molecule with surprising precision. L. Krumbein Figure 1: A Reichardt’s dye molecule colliding at hyperthermal velocity with a copper surface. The molecule’s orientation determines whether the energy of the collision is concentrated in one of the bonds between the central nitrogen atom (green) and a carbon atom ...