In a first for the field, researchers from The Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign ...

A new silicon material switches from insulator to metal in picoseconds. This breakthrough could speed up future computers.

Caltech scientists have found a fast and efficient way to add up large numbers of Feynman diagrams, the simple drawings ...

An international team, led by Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC), has discovered a new way to design novel quantum ...

Unlike silicon, it forms a neatly ordered crystal lattice that allows electrons to move more freely, which is essential for fast and efficient electronic devices.

We have introduced a photonic crystal into a single-crystal silicon slab in order to manipulate the light emission. When the lattice constant of a defect-free photonic crystal matches the wavelength ...

Many semiconductors are based on silicon, with atoms of other elements (such as phosphorus or boron, which are themselves semiconductors) interspersed throughout the silicon crystal lattice in a ...

Silicon is a primordial element, created during the Big Bang or by nuclear fusion during a supernova. It's the eighth most abundant element in the observable Universe, but the third most abundant on ...

A molecular dynamics model for picosecond laser ablation of nanoscale silicon carbide crystals was established by linearly scaling the laser focal diameter, and the correlation between the molecular ...

In a previous color, we’ve talked about what makes things colored — the way objects absorb, reflect, or transmit light at different wavelengths. But let’s be a bit more specific. What gives gemstones ...

The research is published in Nature Communications. Quantum Emitters and Networking Applications Quantum defects, also known as color centers or quantum emitters, are imperfections in otherwise ...