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Magnetic excitations in a ferromagnet known as magnons can be converted into charge currents through a relativistic interaction that couples the spin of an electron with its orbital angular momentum.
The Stark effect can be used to address two qubits independently that are represented by semiconductor quantum dots, placed only a few nanometres apart.
Careful, low-noise measurement techniques allow record quality factors to be determined in ultraclean, suspended carbon nanotube resonators, which are comparable to those of much larger resonators.
Electrostatic force microscopy can directly observe charge flow along native protein nanofilaments that are used in bacterial respiration and cell-to-cell electron exchange.
A quantum bit that can be addressed with a gate voltage and has a very high control-fidelity can be realized in an electrically defined silicon quantum dot.
The coherent operation of individual 31P electron and nuclear spin qubits in a 28Si substrate shows new benchmark decoherence times and provides essential information on the dechorence mechanism.
The relationship between the electronic structure and the thermoelectric properties of molecular junctions is experimentally probed using a three-terminal device.
A concentration cell that produces voltages of ~0.5 V for 100 hours can be created by tethering redox-active molecules to magnetic nanoparticles and then using them to maintain a sharp concentration gradient with the help of an external magnetic field.
Electron tunnelling currents between nanogap electrodes can be used to partially sequence peptides, and discriminate a peptide from its phosphorylated variant.
Survey results suggest that nanoscientists are relatively frequent public communicators who commonly associate their communication efforts with positive impacts on their professional success.
Crystallographic alignment of the two graphene layers in a van der Waals heterostructure leads to resonant tunnelling with the conservation of both energy and momentum.
Hot-electron effects in graphene can be used to detect terahertz radiation at room temperature with high sensitivity, low noise-equivalent power and a fast response time.
A large negative differential resistance is detected in a single-molecule break junction and theoretical models validate intrinsic resonant transport inside the molecule.
Folding MoS2 monolayers to obtain bilayers with different stacking orders results in enhanced valley- and spin-polarizations compared with natural Bernal-stacked bilayers.
The coupling of graphene resonators with superconducting cavities with quality factors exceeding 220,000 represents an important step towards the realization of efficient devices for force and mass sensing, and for studying the quantum regime of mechanical motion.