In spaces smaller than a wavelength of light, electric currents jump from point to point and magnetic fields corkscrew ...

image: Defect engineering is an effective strategy to modify 2D materials for enhanced HER activity. By structuring edge defects, vacancy defects and dopant derived defects, the electronic structure ...

The construction of complex networks of qubits that preserve good quantum coherence in spite of their mutual interactions is an essential prerequisite for the realization of a hardware implementing ...

As a new member of photovoltaic family, antimony trisulfide (Sb2S3) has the satisfactory bandgap of 1.7eV, benefiting the fabrication of the top absorber layer of tandem solar cells. Due to special ...

(Nanowerk News) Researchers at the Center for Integrated Nanostructure Physics, within the Institute for Basic Science (IBS), have shown that defects in monolayer molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) exhibit ...

(Nanowerk News) Diamond material is of great importance for future technologies such as the quantum internet. Special defect centers can be used as quantum bits (qubits) and emit single light ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The migration of point defects, for example, crystal lattice vacancies and self-interstitial atoms (SIAs), typically occurs through ...

UNSW researchers have investigated the impact of electron irradiation on PERC and TOPCon solar cell performance and have identified bulk lifetime degradation as main power loss cause. Their work ...

Researchers have developed a new idea to improve proton conductivity in rare-earth doped BaZrO3 to be used as an electrolyte material in intermediate temperature solid oxide fuel cells (IT-SOFCs). The ...

Highly desired in the petrochemical industry, but generally unwanted in electronics manufacture, defects in MoS2 influence the properties and utility of this material. Analysis of atomically thin MoS2 ...