Physics & Astronomy

Physics & Astronomy

World’s first production of aluminum scandium nitride via MOCVD

Transistors based on AlScN are promising for various industrial applications, such as data transfer, satellite communication, radar systems or autonomous…

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International Stellarator Project Launches New Research Initiative

The Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP) in Greifswald and the U.S. University of Wisconsin-Madison have founded a joint research project to…

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Giant Neutrino Telescope Unveils Secrets of Ultra-High-Energy Universe

A decades-old mystery: where are the most energetic particles coming from?

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Unlocking Hidden Quantum Information from Light Sources

Imaging techniques that employ quantum light are becoming of major importance nowadays, since their capabilities in terms of resolution and sensitivity can…

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Shark Fins and Owl Droplets: Innovations in Aquatic Design

When one imagines a swimmer, their image would probably be of either an Olympian performing the front-crawl, a Salmon fighting upstream, or a shark racing…

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Researchers Observe Quantum Knots Untying in Groundbreaking Study

A quantum gas can be tied into knots using magnetic fields. Our researchers were the first to produce these knots as part of a collaboration between Aalto…

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New Cavity Design Enhances Light-Matter Interactions

Quantum physics describes photons as light particles. Achieving an interaction between a single photon and a single atom is a huge challenge due to the tiny…

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Deuteron-like heavy dibaryons — a step towards finding exotic nuclei

Perhaps you know that this is due to fusion reactions where four nuclei of hydrogen join together to produce a helium nucleus. Such nucleosynthesis processes…

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New Stable Plutonium Form Discovered at ESRF

Countries across the globe are making efforts to improve the safety of the nuclear waste storage in order to prevent release of radioactive nuclides to the…

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Graphene Advances: Controlling Spin Currents in Transistors

In order to make transistors that operate using the spin of electrons, rather than their charge, it is necessary to find a way of switching spin currents on…

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Ultrafast Particle Interactions Boost Quantum Information Devices

Energy is information. Lengthening the time during which a system is capable of retaining energy before losing it to the local environment is a key goal for…

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Innovative Uses of Polymeric Fibers in Modern Applications

“Polymers are very, very useful materials when it comes to modern applications.”

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Analysis of Galileo's Jupiter entry probe reveals gaps in heat shield modeling

The entry probe of the Galileo mission to Jupiter entered the planet's atmosphere in 1995 in fiery fashion. As the probe descended from Mach 50 to Mach 1 and…

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Ultrashort Laser Pulses: New Advances in Optical Control

Laser pulses have long been utilized in research laboratories, industrial production, and medical therapies. In these applications it is often crucial that the…

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Unveiling Quantum Light Mysteries in Thin Tungsten Diselenide Layers

It is an exotic phenomenon that nobody was able to explain for years: when energy is supplied to a thin layer of the material tungsten diselenide, it begins to…

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Dynamic Skyrmion Patterns Unveiled with High-Frequency Fields

Theoretical work had predicted that it should be possible to use a high-frequency electric field to excite a group of skyrmions in the sample so that their…

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