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Adding Plasmonic Metamaterials to Spintronic Devices Could Enhance Spin-Current Generation

Over the last few years, researchers have demonstrated that light can serve as a spin-current generator, creating currents of angular momentum, in optical nanostructures known as plasmonic absorbers, opening up a new branch of spintronics called opto-spintronics.

11 Oct 2017

Physicists Use Spinning Molecules Technique to Measure Roundness of Electron

JILA physicists have for the first time used their spinning molecules technique to measure the “roundness” of the electron, confirming the leading results from another group and suggesting that more precise assessments are possible.

11 Oct 2017

New Photodetector Senses Light by Combining Two Distinct Inorganic Materials

A photodetector has been developed by Physicists at the University of California, Riverside. This photodetector senses light by incorporating two diverse inorganic materials and generating quantum mechanical processes capable of revolutionizing the way solar energy is collected.

10 Oct 2017

Investigations of Nuclei and Nuclear Interactions

The evolution and configuration of the matter of which we and our world are formed were started by the Big Bang.

9 Oct 2017

Non-Abelian Anyon Observed in Bilayer Graphene

A research group headed by assistant professor of physics Cory Dean from Columbia University and Wang Fong-Jen Professor of Mechanical Engineering James Hone from Columbia Engineering has for sure noticed an ever more analyzed anomaly in the field of condensed matter physics, that is, the even-denominator fractional quantum Hall (FQH) state, by adopting transport measurement in bilayer graphene.

9 Oct 2017

Comet from Oort Cloud Observed to be Located Very Close to the Sun Like Never Before

An astronomers group headed by David Jewitt, a UCLA professor, has recognized a “special comet” 1.5 billion miles away from sun. Till date, no comet traveling toward the sun has been observed at such a distance.

6 Oct 2017

Mystery Behind Milky Way’s “Unusual” Star Continues to Puzzle Experts

A star named KIC 8462852 was a top topic in and beyond the astronomy community during 2015 because of a chain of rapid, mysterious dimming events observed while it was being studied using NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope. And the star has unrelenting foiled scientists’ efforts to comprehend it ever since.

5 Oct 2017

Proof for Existence of Dynamical Dark Energy Established

A team of international scientists, which also included University of Portsmouth astronomers, has unearthed the proof for the existence of dynamical dark energy.

4 Oct 2017

Astronomers Identify Bumper Crop of Dual Supermassive Black Holes

Astronomers have identified a bumper crop of dual supermassive black holes in the centers of galaxies. This discovery could help astronomers better understand how giant black holes grow and how they may produce the strongest gravitational wave signals in the Universe.

4 Oct 2017

Quark Gluon Plasma Could be Created Easily than Previously Thought

The primordial cosmic soup, from which all the matter and energy in the universe originally formed, may be far easier to create than scientists had previously thought.

4 Oct 2017