For the first time, University of Basel researchers have equipped an ultrathin semiconductor with superconducting contacts. These extremely thin materials with novel electronic and optical properties could pave the way...

New Laser-Assisted Non-Volatile Memory Based on 2D van-der-Waals Heterostructures The researchers designed and investigated a few-layer rhenium disulfide (ReS2) field-effect transistor with a local floating gate (FG) of monolayer graphene...

Twistoptics—A New Way to Control Optical Nonlinearity Two slabs of boron nitride crystals are dynamically twisted with respect to each other. At certain angles, the incoming laser light (orange beam)...

Theory accelerates push for spintronic devices Rice models help ID materials for advanced electronics, computer memories A new theory by Rice University scientists could boost the growing field of spintronics, devices...

The Room-Temperature Superconductor Arrives at Last A new room-temperature superconductor could spark a revolution. University of Rochester photo / J. Adam FensterThe advance by the Dias research group at the...