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Engineers Report A Major Advance In Creating A New Family Of Semiconductor Materials

Ultrastable and made of inexpensive, nontoxic elements, chalcogenide perovskites could find applications in solar cells, lighting, and more.

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MIT Turns “Magic” Material Into Versatile Electronic Devices

Work on three graphene-based devices may yield new insights into superconductivity.

Physicists Uncover Secrets Of World’s Thinnest Superconductor

First experimental evidence of spin excitations in an atomically thin material helps answer 30-year-old questions, could lead to better medical diagnostics and more.

Custom-Made MIT Tool Probes Materials At The Nanoscale

A scattering-type scanning nearfield optical microscope offers advantages to researchers across many disciplines.

Physicists Engineer Ferroelectricity In Boron Nitride

New property in an ultrathin cousin of graphene could allow for much denser computer memory.

New Material Could Be Two Superconductors In One

Work has potential applications in quantum computing, and introduces new way to plumb the secrets of superconductivity.

Light Could Boost Performance Of Fuel Cells, Lithium Batteries, And Other Devices

With many devices depending on the motion of ions, light could be used as a switch to turn ion motion on and off.

Team Creates Map For Production Of Eco-Friendly Metals

New understanding of metal electrolysis could help optimize production of metals like lithium and iron.

MIT Team Reports Giant Response Of Semiconductors To Light

The materials’ stiffness increases up to 40 percent, in a reversible effect, the researchers report in a study that also explains the phenomenon's atomic origins.

Physicists Discover “Secret Sauce” Behind Exotic Properties Of A New Quantum Material

New work on superconducting kagome metal will aid design of other unusual quantum materials, with many potential applications.

MIT Team Reports Giant Response of Semiconductors to Light

The materials’ stiffness increases up to 40 percent, in a reversible effect, the researchers report in a study that also explains the phenomenon's atomic origins.