Research Summaries

The team began with a flat piece of ruthenium metal. On top of the metal, they grew graphene, which is a one-atom-thick layer of carbon. In this

Scientists improve our understanding of the relationship between fundamental forces by re-creating the earliest moments of the universe.

Knowing how minerals form is vital for subsurface energy extraction and waste storage, creating tailored catalysts, and more. Minerals can form via

An important step for simplifying the complex production of 3-D fields in a tokamak is to build a matrix that relates the external 3-D magnetic

Particle collisions at RHIC free quarks and gluons from their confinement within ordinary particles (e.g., protons and neutrons) so

For electron microscopes, the traditional approaches to improving resolution are increasing the energy of the electron beam, up to a point where

Gold nanostars are a class of plasmonic nanomaterials that show promise in surface-enhanced Raman scattering-based applications and hot electron

A research team used chemical vapor deposition—with a twist—to localize control of the synthesis process and allow evolutionary, or

As electronic devices shrink, more precise semiconductor synthesis and characterization are needed to improve these devices. APT can identify atom

The terahertz spectral window (100 gigahertz to 10 terahertz) is attracting attention for its potential use in submillimeter-wave communication and