Author Archives
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Molecular functionalization of surfaces for device applications
Surface molecular functionalization combines many challenges: from characterizing, understanding and utilizing the surface properties and microscopic chemical entities, to judicious adsorption schemes enabling controlled tailoring of surface and interfacial properties.
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Image of the week: quantum dots in CMOS technology
CMOS chips are everywhere in our modern age as technology plays an ever increasing part in our lives. This week’s image comes from a recent JPCM review on single donor electronics and quantum functionalities within advanced CMOS technologies. The review… Read More ›
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Hole dynamics in a two-dimensional antiferromagnet
What controls it?
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Je-Geun Park: understanding strongly correlated physics
Associate Director for the IBS Center for Corrrelated Systems, Group Leader of the Emergent Phenomena Group, both Seoul National University, elected Fellow of the Korean Physical Society and KPS 2015 Research prize recipient, and JPCM Board Member, the busy Je-Geun Park talks to JPhys+ about his work, the field as a whole and what he enjoys away from science.
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Image of the week: imogolite nanotubes as photocatalysts
As the cost of producing conventional energy sources continues to grow, the role photocatalysts play in energy conversion technologies becomes more important. Improving the efficiency of photocatalysts has been active area of research for many years, but faces many problems,… Read More ›
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Daniel Errandonea: materials under pressure
Professor Daniel Errandonea talks about the implications of studying materials at high-pressures and what he most enjoys about having a career in physics.
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Image of the week: manipulating graphene
The first image of the week of 2016 comes from our recently published special issue on 2D semiconductors.
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JPhys+ in 2015: what you’ve been reading
Find out which 5 posts are most read on the blog this year.
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Amanda Barnard: using big data at the nanoscale
In our latest featured author interview Amanda Barnard, an OCE Science Leader and head of the CSIRO Virtual Nanoscience Laboratory, talks to us about her multidiscliplinary research and why using data-driven methods is the future of the field.
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Christmas image of the week: Fermi surfaces
In the countdown to Christmas we bring you this festive edition of our Image of the week.
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Magnetoelectronics – electric field control of magnetism in the solid state
The resurgence of research in this area is two-fold according to Guest Editors Carlos Vaz and Urs Staub – come find out why.
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What we’ve been reading: cats, space and medical milestones
When not at conferences or doing peer-review, we too like to keep-up-to date with interesting science. Plus it’s an excuse to surf the web at work! Here’s what we’ve been reading and talking about recently.
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The high life of technology with David Ferry
Learn more about the physics of nanoscale semiconducting devices.
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How to make objects invisible
Watch Martin McCall explain how metamaterials can make objects invisible.
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Image of the week: looking down the kaleidoscope
While this week’s image reminded me of the kaleidoscopes I had as a kid, the paper by A Crepaldi et al actually explores the electronic and structural properties of a lead monolayer grown on a gold substrate.
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Art in science
Here at JPhys+ one of our favourite things to do is search through our published papers to find beautiful figures for our Image of the Week, and you must be happy with our choices as these posts are amoungst our… Read More ›
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Drawing circuits with light
A new way of creating quantum-mechanical circuits on topological insulators.
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