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By controlling two voltage gates separately from one another, a spatial light modulator has been made that can continuously vary the phase of 360 degrees while independently adjusting the amplitude.
Function implementation and optimization in nanoscale and quantum-electronic devices become increasingly challenging with the growing complexity of the devices. Training a deep neural network with the physical device response and searching for the functionality in the digital device can ease this challenge.
Foliar application of different forms of nanoscale copper to plant seedlings induces material-specific biochemical and molecular changes in root tissue that stimulate plant defence against soybean sudden death syndrome.
In situ NMR and magnetic resonance imaging unravel new chemistries for the formation and growth of metal microstructures, with consequences on the solid–electrolyte interphase stability.
After fourteen years of writing for Nature Nanotechnology, Chris Toumey reflects on the role of experts in Science and Technology Studies in his last contribution to the journal.
Epitaxial quantum dot charge spin qubits offer efficient quantum light links, but their coherence is limited by interactions with the nanoscale ensemble of atomic nuclear spins. Employing nuclear spins instead as its hardware, strain-free GaAs/AlGaAs quantum dots can constitute a fully functional two-qubit quantum register.
Holography of incoherent emission from SERS probes allows multiplexed single-particle localization in three dimensions in one shot using a wide-field microscope.
The internal surface of an optical fibre can be covered by uniform two-dimensional-material layers for highly nonlinear and low-loss light propagation.
Two-dimensional conjugated metal–organic frameworks used as an electron-extraction layer enable the realization of highly stable perovskite solar cells with minimized lead ion leakage.
A complex-amplitude metasurface hologram is conceptually designed and three-dimensionally printed. The device allows for high-bandwidth orbital angular momentum multiplexing holography and holographic video displays.
Both extrinsic and intrinsic factors determine the properties of ferroic materials and are difficult to disentangle. This study on artificial crystals of planar nanomagnets with well-defined, tuneable magnetic interactions unveils the intrinsic correlations between microscopic interactions and macroscopic properties such as the domain size and morphology or the domain-wall mobility.
Although the idea of using nanomaterials for agriculture is promising, we must consider in detail how nanotechnology can provide advantages over standard tools.
Overcoming the challenges of plastic detection in plants has made it possible to transfer many of the lessons learned from plant–metal nanoparticle interactions to plastic nanoparticles.