When a band falls flat: Searching for flatness in materials

International collaboration creates a catalogue of materials that could impact quantum technologies

04-Apr-2022 - The world’s first catalog of flat band materials, published in Nature journal, could reduce the serendipity in the search for new materials with exotic quantum properties, such as magnetism and superconductivity, with applications in memory devices or in long-range dissipationless transport of ...

Bit data goes anti-skyrmions

05-Sep-2017 - Today’s world, rapidly changing because of “big data”, is encapsulated in trillions of tiny magnetic objects – magnetic bits – each of which stores one bit of data in magnetic disk drives. A group of scientists from the Max Planck Institutes in Halle and Dresden have discovered a new kind of ...

New way to measure electron pair interactions

13-Feb-2014 - Shoot a beam of light or particles at certain special materials and you will liberate electrons -- pairs of them -- a phenomenon known as "electron pair emission," which can reveal fundamental properties of the solid and reveal information necessary to design novel materials for future ...

Nacre-like structure from reinforced polymers

26-Feb-2008 - Strong, tough but light is the desired combination of properties for numerous applications but one that is rarely found in artificial materials. Now researchers at ETH Zurich have developed a new nacre-like composite that is twice the strength of naturally-occuring nacre. Stronger ceramic ...