Scientists show that a regular polygon suspended at its vertices supports vibrational modes along the perimeter with extremely high quality factors. This approach to loss-engineering has an important advantage over previous techniques: realizing high quality factors in devices with much smaller footprints.
Compared to current desalination methods, these fluorous nanochannels work faster, require less pressure and less energy, and are a more effective filter.
Researchers have developed a novel type of micro-structured material that enhances the speed of light signals while keeping them protected from scattering.
Scientists have demonstrated that nanowires can act like a quantum one-way street for electrons when made of a topological insulator. The discovery opens the pathway for new technological applications of devices made from topological insulators and demonstrates a significant step on the road to achieving so-called topological qubits.
Microrobots have the potential to revolutionize medicine. Researchers have now developed an imaging technique that for the first time recognises cell-?sized microrobots individually and at high resolution in a living organism.
Scientists used numerical simulations to confirm observations of quantized vortices in superfluid helium using silicon nanoparticles, improving understanding of quantum fluids and superconductors.
