A research team affiliated with UNIST has made a significant breakthrough in overcoming one of the most persistent challenges ...

Twist a stack of atom-thin carbon sheets by just the right amount and the material stops behaving like ordinary metal or ...

1D bands take on electronic or magnetic properties. Courtesy: Yakobson Research Group/Rice University Researchers at Rice University in the US have proposed a new way of controlling the magnetic and ...

True to form, observations of nonlinear behaviour in graphene – such as parametric frequency conversion, third harmonic generation and self -phase modulation – has revealed extremely strong responses.

A unique new semiconductor, rhenium disulfide, that behaves electronically as if it were a 2-D monolayer even as a 3-D bulk material has been discovered by researchers. This not only opens the door to ...

The new, international theoretical study introduces a novel approach known as the ‘quantum virial expansion,’ offering a powerful tool to uncover the complex quantum interactions in two-dimensional ...

Figure 1: Transition and correlation between phase and physics in TMDs. Overall, the use of robust phase transitions to versatile 2D layered structures is a timely and challenging issue for science ...

The simplicity of fundamental physical laws manifests itself in fundamental symmetries. Although systems with an infinite number of strongly interacting degrees of freedom (in particle physics and ...

(Nanowerk News) From super-lubricants, to solar cells, to the fledgling technology of valleytronics, there is much to be excited about with the discovery of a unique new two-dimensional semiconductor, ...

Google today announced new developer tools specifically for building mobile games. The company has launched a new 2D physics library called LiquidFun, a Google Play games plugin for Unity which works ...