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The charge transfer between two layers of different two-dimensional materials occurs at a much faster speed than expected, holding promise for efficient optoelectronic devices.
Nuclear magnetic resonance experiments on 100,000 nuclear spins in a quantum dot allows for the reversal of these spins back and forth as if they were a single unit.
In heterostructures of the transition metal dichalcogenides MoS2 and WSe2, atomically thin p–n junctions are created that show gate-tunable rectifying and photovoltaic behaviour mediated by tunnelling-assisted interlayer recombination.
The electron spin in a silicon-based quantum dot can be controlled electrically for as long as several tens of microseconds, which improves the prospects for quantum information processing based on this type of quantum dot.
Spin dynamics in semiconductor heterostructures can be probed by a modified scanning tunnelling microscopy technique with a temporal resolution of a few picoseconds.
The coupling between quantum dot states in indium atomic chains can be controlled by precise positioning of the atoms on indium vacancies on an InAs surface.
The ensemble of massless electrons in graphene shows a collective non-zero inertia that can be measured by measuring the kinetic inductance of an encapsulated graphene device.
Artificial spin ice structures can be designed that allow for the induction of thermal fluctuations, with dynamics that depend on the material and the lattice geometry.
Dyakonov surface waves allow light to be guided in fully transparent dielectric nanosheets deposited on top of anisotropic optical materials with no losses and high directionality.
A DNA nanostructure can be used to create a multi-enzyme complex in which an artificial swinging arm facilitates hydride transfer between two coupled dehydrogenases.