The electronic and magnetic properties of two-dimensional materials both have strong potential for technological applications ...

Phonons are the collective vibrations that move through a solid. They can be thought of as waves traveling across the atomic ...

Physicists in China have unveiled new clues to the origins of high-temperature superconductivity in an iron-based material ...

Researchers at Cornell University have developed a powerful imaging technique that reveals atomic scale defects inside ...

It has been revealed that simply twisting and stacking two layers of oxide crystals can allow the atomic arrangement itself to control the behavior of electrons. Much like the new patterns that emerge ...

Virtual apertures let researchers isolate and solve atomic structures from individual nanocrystals embedded in dense clusters ...

Electrons in solar materials can be launched across molecules almost as fast as nature allows, thanks to tiny atomic ...

Electrons are defined as very small particles with a negative electrical charge that travels around the nucleus of an atom. This atom speck is responsible for several unique properties, such as wave ...

Photo: Niels Bohr's research notes for his new atomic theory Rutherford's find came from a very strange experience. Everyone at that time imagined the atom as a "plum pudding." That is, it was roughly ...

THE arrangement of the non-nuclear electrons in the atom is being determined by work along two lines: first, from the Bohr-Summerfeld theory of characteristic frequencies, and, secondly, from the ...