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Optics and photonics
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Future optoelectronics unlocked by ‘doping’ strategy
Nature, Published online: 11 September 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02659-0 A family of semiconductors known as perovskites has great promise for…
Countdown to a nuclear clock
Nature, Published online: 04 September 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02662-5 An ultra-precise laser synchronized to one of the world’s most precise…
The cool technologies that could protect cities from dangerous heat
It’s time to brace for record-breaking heat. Last year was the hottest on record and 2024 is shaping…
Physics solves a training problem for artificial neural networks
Xue, Z. et al. Nature 632, 280–286 (2024). Article Google Scholar McMahon, P. L. Nature Rev. Phys. 5,…
Cheap light sources could make AI more energy efficient
Nature Electronics 6, 463 (2023). Article Google Scholar LeCun, Y., Bengio, Y. & Hinton, G. Nature 521, 436–444…
Microchip minutiae imaged using rapid X-ray bursts
Nature, Published online: 31 July 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02377-7 As components on a computer chip shrink, their structure becomes ever-more…
A glass that builds and heals itself
Researchers have discovered that a peptide, when mixed with water, can self assemble into a rigid glass. Peptides…
A window on molecular chirality at the timescale of electron motion
RESEARCH BRIEFINGS 05 June 2024 A laser technique, which has a time resolution of only a few femtoseconds,…
Quantum tunnelling of electrons brings ultrafast optical microscopy to the atomic scale
RESEARCH BRIEFINGS 08 May 2024 The oscillating electromagnetic fields that carry light can cause electrons to tunnel back…
Vibration isolation could boost performance of near-infrared organic LEDs
Nature, Published online: 08 May 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-01170-w The development of high-performance organic LEDs and other devices that emit…