Research Summaries

A new photoconductive metasurface paves the way for smaller, more efficient terahertz detectors.

Researchers have developed new artificial intelligence methods to enable “autonomous experimentation.”

New one-step method creates hollow nanostructures that can carry and deliver nanoscale cargos for medicine and other applications.

Local scaling self-interaction correction (LSIC) overcomes long-standing problems for accurate simulation of chemical reactions from start to finish.

A novel single-step process spontaneously organizes layered light-harvesting structures.

Optical control allows physicists to simulate and understand interactions between atoms.

Research demonstrates a new approach to refrigeration using light transport at the nanoscale.

New device promises power generation in total darkness.

3D magnetic fields can help control the plasma edge to prevent damaging bursts of heat and particles from fusion plasma.

Injecting pellets into fusion plasma helps repair tears in fusion reactors’ magnetic fields, improving prospects for fusion energy.