Graphene heterostructures with black phosphorus, arsenic enable new infrared detectors

Sensors could replace any far-infrared and terahertz radiation detectors

16-Apr-2020 - MIPT scientists and their colleagues from Japan and the U.S. have calculated the parameters of photodetectors comprised by layers of graphene and a combination of black phosphorus and black arsenic. These sensors are able to detect radiation with energy less than the band gap of the constituent ...

Thorium superconductivity: Scientists discover a new high-temperature superconductor

11-Nov-2019 - A group of scientists led by Artem Oganov, Professor at Skoltech and MIPT, and Dr. Ivan Troyan at the Institute of Crystallography of RAS have succeeded in synthesizing thorium decahydride (ThH10), a new superconducting material with a very high critical temperature (161 K). A truly remarkable ...

Researchers synthesize 'impossible' superconductor

04-Oct-2019 - Researchers from the U.S., Russia, and China have bent the rules of classical chemistry and synthesized a "forbidden" compound of cerium and hydrogen -- CeH9 -- which exhibits superconductivity at a relatively low pressure of 1 million atmospheres. Superconductors are materials capable of ...

New properties of uranium compounds

17-Oct-2018 - Scientists from Russia, China, and the United States predicted and experimentally identified new uranium hydrides, predicting superconductivity for some of them.Of particular interest to scientists are the so-called "high-temperature superconductors" that boast superconductivity at less extreme ...

Material for high-speed quantum internet

23-Mar-2018 - The race for quantum computing is on: Industry giants, such as Google, IBM, and Microsoft, and leading international research centers and universities are involved in the global effort to build a quantum computer. It is not known yet when this new technology can become a reality, but the world is ...

Prediction of nonmetallic half-metallicity

19-Sep-2017 - A team of researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) and the Institute for Theoretical and Applied Electrodynamics (ITAE) of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), in collaboration with a colleague from RIKEN (Institute for Physical and Chemical Research in Japan), has ...

How fullerite becomes harder than diamond

22-Mar-2017 - Physicists have simulated the structure of a new material based on fullerite and single crystal diamond to show how this material can obtain ultrahigh hardness. This discovery allows the estimations the potential conditions for obtaining ultrahard materials. Fullerite generally is a molecular ...

Scientists discover helium chemistry

08-Feb-2017 - Although helium is the second most-abundant element (after hydrogen) in the universe, it doesn't play well with others. It is a member of a family of seven elements called the noble gases, which are called that because of their chemical aloofness -- they don't easily form compounds with other ...

Cerium hexaboride challenges physicists to come up with new theory

23-Dec-2016 - Scientists from MIPT and other research institutes and universities have discovered unusual phenomena occurring in a single cerium hexaboride (CeB6) crystal. By performing an electron spin resonance (ESR) experiment, the researchers confirmed the status of the material that had been dubbed an ...

Physicists 'dissolve' water in an emerald

07-Oct-2016 - Scientists from MIPT and several research teams working in Russia and other European countries have been the first to reliably realize and document the phenomenon of water molecular dipoles ordering by confining water molecules within nanocages in a beryl crystal. In solid-state physics, the ...