Ever since Curie conjectured on "the symmetry in physical phenomena, symmetry of an electric field and a magnetic field", it has long been a dream for material scientists to search for this rather ...

This story was updated on Oct. 15, 2019, to correct the statement that the hydrides overlap well with filled palladium d orbitals. The magnesium ligands are what interact with palladium's d orbitals.

Researchers in Europe have found a way to make silicon-germanium (SiGe) alloys emit light efficiently, a breakthrough that has the potential to revolutionize integrated silicon photonics. In that ...

Anna Fontcuberta i Morral is at the Laboratory of Semiconductor Materials, Institute of Materials and at the Institute of Physics, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.

Silicon sees the light: Elham Fadaly (left) and Alain Dijkstra in their Eindhoven lab. (Courtesy: Sicco van Grieken/SURF) A light-emitting silicon-based material with a direct band gap has been ...

In a step towards futuristic 3D-display screens, researchers in Singapore have found a simple way to control the growth of tiny crystals that have useful optical properties. By careful doping with ...