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Molecular Hills and Valleys No Barrier To Electrical Charge in Materials But Defects Are A Killer

For electrical charges racing through an atom-thick sheet of graphene, occasional hills and valleys are no big deal, but the potholes—single-atom defects in the crystal—they’re killers. That’s one...

From National Institute of Standards and Tech (NIST) 13 Jul 2007

First Comprehensive Study of Boron Nitride's Properties at the Nanometric Level

The Physics of Materials team at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), part of the Mixed Centre created between this UPV/EHU Physics of Materials team and the European Theoretical Spectroscopy Facility (ETSF), ...

26 Mar 2007

Scientists Control Electron Dance in Semiconductor Nanostructure

Electrons love to zip around metals such as copper, especially if the metal is cooled to temperatures near absolute zero. But if they encounter a magnetic atom (say, iron) during their travels, the electrons will try to ...

15 Mar 2007

Scientists Fabricate Ultra-Thin Membranes

Researchers at the Stuttgart-based Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research and the University of Manchester have created the thinnest membranes possible: They consist of only a single layer of carbon atoms, called ...

14 Mar 2007

New Super-Thin Technology

Researchers have used the world's thinnest material to create a new type of technology, which could be used to make super-fast electronic components and speed up the development of drugs. Physicists at The Univers...

6 Mar 2007

Graphene Could be the Key to A New Type of Super-Fast Computer Chip

Researchers have used the world’s thinnest material to create the world’s smallest transistor – a breakthrough that could spark the development of a new type of super-fast computer chip. Professor A...

1 Mar 2007

Scientists Create Suspended Graphene Resonator

In the world of cutting-edge physics, discoveries are often made using intricate procedures and elaborate, expensive instruments. But a paper by Cornell graduate student Scott Bunch and colleagues shows how interesting r...

19 Feb 2007