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.

Near the 100th anniversary of the discovery of ferroelectricity, so-called sliding ferroelectricity has been proposed and confirmed recently in a series of experiments that have stimulated remarkable ...

Ultrathin materials such as graphene promise a revolution in nanoscience and technology. Researchers have now made an important advance within the field. In a recent article they present a method for ...

Many bulk materials can be thought of as nearly two-dimensional (2D) or one-dimensional (1D). This is because of the symmetry and chemical make-up of their crystal structures. We can also make ...

Physicists at RIKEN have developed an electronic device that hosts unusual states of matter, which could one day be useful for quantum computation. When a material exists as an ultrathin layer—a mere ...

Physicists propose a new vantage point to observe quantum fractionalization. Rice University physicists Matthew Foster and Seth Davis want to view a vexing quantum puzzle from an entirely new ...

Stacking dies introduces layers of complexity driven by multi-physics interactions, which must be addressed at the start of ...