Merck to lead OLED research

Launches joint project to conduct basic research on quantum materials as light sources

02-Feb-2018 - Merck, a leading science and technology company, is announcing its leadership role in the joint project entitled “Exploration of quantum materials – New paths to realizing innovative optoelectronic components (ELQ-LED)”. The aim of the project, which will receive total funding of €5.5 million ...

A look into the fourth dimension

08-Jan-2018 - In our daily experience space has three dimensions. Recently, however, a physical phenomenon that only occurs in four spatial dimensions could be observed in two experiments. The theoretical groundwork for those experiments was laid by an ETH researcher. Ever since Albert Einstein developed the ...

A semiconductor that can beat the heat

02-Aug-2017 - A newly discovered collective rattling effect in a type of crystalline semiconductor blocks most heat transfer while preserving high electrical conductivity - a rare pairing that scientists say could reduce heat buildup in electronic devices and turbine engines, among other possible ...

A patent-free playground

Researchers and industrial companies collaborate to create a new Open Science platform

01-Aug-2017 - Along with a number of leading Danish industrial companies, Aarhus University has opted out of the patent rat race in a new collaboration on industrially relevant basic research. Researchers and companies from all over Denmark publish all their results and data on the innovative Open Science ...

New form of matter unveiled: Time crystals

30-Jan-2017 - To most people, crystals mean diamond bling, semiprecious gems or perhaps the jagged amethyst or quartz crystals beloved by collectors. To Norman Yao, these inert crystals are the tip of the iceberg. If crystals have an atomic structure that repeats in space, like the carbon lattice of a diamond, ...

China develops world's brightest VUV free electron laser research facility

16-Jan-2017 - A team of Chinese scientists announced on Jan. 13 that they have developed a new bright VUV FEL light source, the Dalian Coherent Light Source (DCLS), which can deliver world's brightest FEL light in an energy range from 8 to 24 eV, making it unique of the same kind that only operates in the VUV ...

We gather here today to join lasers and anti-lasers

Marriage opens door to development of single device with exceptional range of optical capabilities

11-Nov-2016 - Bringing opposing forces together in one place is as challenging as you would imagine it to be, but researchers in the field of optical science have done just that. Scientists at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have for the first time created a ...

Theorists solve a long-standing fundamental problem

01-Sep-2016 - Trying to understand a system of atoms is like herding gnats - the individual atoms are never at rest and are constantly moving and interacting. When it comes to trying to model the properties and behavior of these kinds of systems, scientists use two fundamentally different pictures of reality, ...

TRIGA Mainz reaches world record of 20,000 pulses in 50 years

Powerful neutron source is used by chemists and physicists from all over the world

14-Oct-2015 - The research reactor TRIGA at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) has reached a new milestone: after 50 years of consecutive operation, TRIGA Mainz achieved a total number of 20,000 pulses on October 1, 2015 – a world record. On this day, the reactor was operated for test measurements of ...

Best precision yet for neutrino measurements at Daya Bay

15-Sep-2015 - In the Daya Bay region of China a research project is underway to study neutrinos. The international Daya Bay Collaboration announced new findings on the measurements of neutrinos, paving the way forward for further neutrino research, and confirming that the Daya Bay neutrino experiment continues ...