Quantum technologies from ultrasensitive sensors to next-generation information processors depend on the ability of quantum ...

A research team affiliated with UNIST has made a significant breakthrough in overcoming one of the most persistent challenges ...

So far finding and developing 2D semiconductor materials has been largely down to trial and error. Now research by scientists at Trinity College Dublin’s School of Physics and AMBER, the Research ...

1D bands take on electronic or magnetic properties. Courtesy: Yakobson Research Group/Rice University Researchers at Rice University in the US have proposed a new way of controlling the magnetic and ...

True to form, observations of nonlinear behaviour in graphene – such as parametric frequency conversion, third harmonic generation and self -phase modulation – has revealed extremely strong responses.

A unique new semiconductor, rhenium disulfide, that behaves electronically as if it were a 2-D monolayer even as a 3-D bulk material has been discovered by researchers. This not only opens the door to ...

Figure 1: Transition and correlation between phase and physics in TMDs. Overall, the use of robust phase transitions to versatile 2D layered structures is a timely and challenging issue for science ...

The simplicity of fundamental physical laws manifests itself in fundamental symmetries. Although systems with an infinite number of strongly interacting degrees of freedom (in particle physics and ...

Water rolls on h-BN but encounters friction on graphene. Atomic structure and substrate shape nanoscale movement, guiding advances in coatings and anti-icing surfaces.

Google today announced new developer tools specifically for building mobile games. The company has launched a new 2D physics library called LiquidFun, a Google Play games plugin for Unity which works ...