#superconductivity
Making tiny antennas for wearable electronics
By changing the length of the antenna, the frequency could be tuned from 2.01 to 2.80 GHz, which includes the frequency required by Bluetooth and Wi-Fi technologies.
20 Nov 2019 ⋅ ACS Nano
A four-way switch promises greater tunability of layered materials
The newly discovered phase couples with a known phase to enable unique control over material properties--an advance that paves the way to eventual manipulation of electrical conduction in two-dimensional (2D) materials such as graphene.
18 Nov 2019 ⋅ Nature Materials
The secret behind crystals that shrink when heated
Discovery yields new quantitative description of unusual behavior relevant to materials used in electronics, medicine, telecommunications, and more
1 Nov 2019 ⋅ Science Advances
A plethora of states in magic-angle graphene
Researchers were also able to increase the superconducting transition temperature to above 3 kelvin, reaching record values which are twice as high as previously reported studies for magic-angle-graphene devices.
30 Oct 2019 ⋅ Nature
Researchers synthesize ‘impossible’ superconductor
As materials scientists pursue superconductivity at higher temperatures and lower pressures, one may come at the cost of the other.
1 Oct 2019 ⋅ Nature Communications
Dartmouth and MIT research advances noise cancelling for quantum computers
Experiment marks important step in development of more precise qubit systems.
16 Sep 2019 ⋅ Nature Communications
Measuring the charge of electrons in a high-temp superconductor
Scientists found a large concentration of electron pairs outside key temperature and energy ranges; this finding could inform the search for new materials that conduct electricity without resistance at unusually high temperatures.
21 Aug 2019 ⋅ Nature
20-qubit Schrödinger cat states with superconducting quantum processor
The achievement of these results is a big step toward building a quantum computer.
15 Aug 2019 ⋅ Science
Newfound superconductor material could be the ‘silicon of quantum computers’
Possible 'topological superconductor' could overcome industry's problem of quantum decoherence.
15 Aug 2019 ⋅ Science
Experiments explore the mysteries of ‘magic’ angle superconductors
A team led by Princeton physicist Ali Yazdani has shown that strong electron interactions play a key role in the superconductivity that has been discovered in graphene, a material made up of single-layer sheets of carbon atoms.
31 Jul 2019 ⋅ Nature