Physicists have found a new “island of inversion” in the nucleus of molybdenum-84, a perfectly balanced atom with equal numbers of protons and neutrons. The discovery upends a decades-old assumption ...

The valleys of two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) offer a new degree of freedom for information processing and have attracted tremendous interest for their possible applications ...

Students working in UNF's LEGO (Layered Epitaxial Growth of Oxides) Lab. (Courtesy: University of North Florida) A team of researchers from the University of North Florida’s Atomic-LEGO laboratory ...

Breaking inversion symmetry in materials allows deviations from Ohm's law, enabling nonlinear effects that could drive future nano- and quantum-electronic devices. (Nanowerk News) The Nanodevices ...

Research teams led by Prof. ZHANG Zhenyu, Prof. Xiang Bin and Prof. SHENG Zhigao from University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), in collaboration with High Magnetic Field Laboratory of ...

A team of researchers has identified a unique phenomenon, a "skin effect," in the nonlinear optical responses of antiferromagnetic materials. The research, published in Physical Review Letters, ...