PPPL in the spotlight: national CBS news program focuses on fusion energy
The U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory and Steve Cowley, PPPL's director, were featured on the July 23 "CBS Saturday Morning."
Tulane physicist awarded $8.2 million to precisely measure lifetime of the free neutron
The $8.2 million grant is the largest is the largest ever direct NSF award to Tulane.
PPPL launches project to build the Princeton Plasma Innovation Center
PPPL moved forward with plans to build the Princeton Plasma Innovation Center (PPIC), a new state-of-the-art office and laboratory building and the first new building on campus in 50 years. The project kicked off during a meeting with architects on July 8.
Seeing Double for Better Solar Cells
Halide perovskite can make solar cells a thousand times thinner than today's silicon solar cells. A new approach allows scientists to watch changes in the material's structure and functional properties while the material solidifies into a thin film from solution. This gives new insight into how the material's structure and functionality are related, aiding in future solar cell design.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's Computer Science and Physics Departments Appoint New Leaders
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's School of Science has appointed two new department heads. Mohammed Zaki now leads the Department of Computer Science and Gyorgy Korniss leads the Department of Physics, Applied Physics, and Astronomy. The departments are ranked third and fourth in the state of New York, respectively, and 24th nationally by College Factual.
Simons Foundation Announces New Collaboration on Confinement and QCD Strings
The Simons Foundation has announced a new research collaboration to explore the "glue" that holds the visible matter of the universe together. This team will delve into the details of quantum chromodynamics (QCD) -- the theory that describes the interactions among the most fundamental building blocks of visible matter.
Magnetic quantum material broadens platform for probing next-gen information technologies
Scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory used neutron scattering to find the first 2D system to host a spiral spin liquid.
One more slice to drive the solar stack
Inserting a metal fluoride layer in multilayered perovskite-silicon tandem solar cells can stall charge recombination and enhance performance, KAUST researchers have found.
New Record For Modeling Atoms Smashes Previously Held Record Number By Factor of 10
A new record has been set by researchers at the Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences for calculating the energy distribution function, or "density of states," for over 100,000 silicon atoms, a first in computational materials science.
Quantum cryptography: Hacking futile
The Internet is teeming with highly sensitive information. Sophisticated encryption techniques generally ensure that such content cannot be intercepted and read.
Nanodiamonds Are a Cell's Best Friend
Temperature-detecting nanodiamonds have been developed with silicon-vacancy color centers that gauge luminescence inside cells. As the smallest nanodiamond with a mean size of 20 nm, this particle enables smoother entry into organelles as well as high-precision temperature sensing.
Anti-butterfly effect enables new benchmarking of quantum-computer performance
Research drawing on the quantum "anti-butterfly effect" solves a longstanding experimental problem in physics and establishes a method for benchmarking the performance of quantum computers.
Improving Image Sensors for Machine Vision
In Applied Physics Letters, researchers highlight the latest nanostructured components integrated on image sensor chips that are most likely to make the biggest impact in multimodal imaging and detailed a promising approach to detect multiple-band spectra by fabricating an on-chip spectrometer. The developments could enable autonomous vehicles to see around corners instead of just a straight line, biomedical imaging to detect abnormalities at different tissue depths, and telescopes to see through interstellar dust.
Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony Spotlights the Advanced Photon Source's Game-Changing Long Beamlines
The technology housed in the new Long Beamline Building will lead to more efficient solar cells, longer-lasting batteries, more durable materials for airplanes and much more.
Bridging the Digital Divide with 6G Technology
Light-based technology, for making telecommunications more accessible in remote and rural areas, is to be developed in a collaboration between the University of Strathclyde and Friedrich-Alexander-Universitat Erlangen-Nurnberg (FAU) in Germany.
Next Generation Atomic Clocks Are a Step Closer to Real World Applications
Quantum clocks are shrinking, thanks to new technologies developed at the University of Birmingham-led UK Quantum Technology Hub Sensors and Timing.
A new leap in understanding nickel oxide superconductors
Unconventional superconductors contain a mix of weird quantum states. SLAC and Stanford researchers found one of them - frozen electron ripples known as charge density waves - in a nickelate superconductor they discovered three years ago.
Halos and Dark Matter: A Recipe for Discovery
About three years ago, Wolfgang "Wolfi" Mittig and Yassid Ayyad went looking for the universe's missing mass, better known as dark matter, in the heart of an atom. Their expedition didn't lead them to dark matter, but they still found something that had never been seen before, something that defied explanation. Well, at least an explanation that everyone could agree on.
'Shining' Light on the Inner Details and Breakup of Deuterons
Scientists have found a way to "see" inside deuterons, the simplest atomic nuclei, to better understand how particles called gluons are arranged within the deuteron. These collisions can also break the deuteron apart, giving insights into what holds the proton and neutron together. The research helps scientists understand how nuclei emerge from quarks and gluons, and how the masses of nuclei are dynamically generated by gluons.
Unravel the mystery of the quasar's "anisotropic" effects on surrounding gas
The team* led by Prof. Toru Misawa of the School of General Education, Shinshu University found for the first time that the internal donut-shaped structure of the central nuclei of bright galaxies in the distant universe can have an "anisotropic" effect on the gas distributed over a vast area around them.
Light Polarization Creates Art, Explains Mathematical Concepts
In the American Journal of Physics, Aaron Slepkov from Trent University explores the physics of how polarization-filtered colors emerge, how they can be controlled, and why subtle changes in viewing angle, sample orientation, and the order of layers of films between polarizers can have dramatic effects on the observed colors. The research emphasizes visual examples of concepts related to birefringence, such as addition, subtraction, and order-of-operations.
Brookhaven Lab's Visiting Faculty Program Fosters New Nano Center at SUNY - Buffalo State
In a successful pilot extension of the Visiting Faculty Program, Saquib Ahmed leveraged the program's resources to build out a nanoscience center at his home institution.
Quantum computer works with more than zero and one
We all learn from early on that computers work with zeros and ones, also known as binary information.
First electric nanomotor made from DNA material
A research team led by the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has succeeded for the first time in producing a molecular electric motor using the DNA origami method.
UAH student overcomes setbacks of war to solve a difficult quantum optical system problem
In work applicable to super-fast quantum computing and quantum optics, undergraduate research by a recent graduate in physics and mathematics at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) has simplified a difficult mathematical problem to further illuminate the behavior of two-level quantum optical systems.