A new material developed at Penn State defies a fundamental law of physics, opening doors to highly efficient solar cells.

New works presents a unified theoretical framework to describe the electronic structure of non-Hermitian systems, potentially leading to major advancements in condensed matter physics ...

Activists say CPS Energy's weatherization programs and existing bill aid not enough for some residents struggling with high ...

The candidate pool for engineered materials that can help enable tomorrow's cutting-edge optical technologies—such as lasers, ...

More pathways than previously thought can lead to optical topological insulators, materials with exciting properties that could have future ...

Once considered merely insulating, a change in the angle between silicon and oxygen atoms opens a pathway for electrical charge to flow. A breakthrough discovery from the University of Michigan has ...

In this paper, a novel nanometeric plasmonic narrow-band filter consisting of a metal-insulator-metal waveguide and a cavity embedded in the metal is proposed and numerically demonstrated by using the ...

The exciton, a bound pair of an electron and a hole, can condense (excitonic condensation) in either an insulator or a superfluid phase, offering an ideal platform to investigate the two distinct ...

In this paper, a nanoscale band-pass filter in two-dimensional plasmonic waveguides with elliptic resonator is proposed, and its performance is validated numerically using method of finite difference ...

The authors’ proposed method uses a probabilistic machine learning model to fit a model to the data, with the energy values of the electronic band structure as the variables to be extracted. The model ...