Harvesting heat produced by a car’s engine which would otherwise be wasted and using it to recharge the car’s batteries or powering the air-conditioning system could be a significant feature in the ...

A kinetically controlled synthesis has yielded a novel strontium-iron oxide with an unusual structure. The study, reported in Nature (2007, 450, 1062), may lead to new types of materials with useful ...

Okay, I admit that the title sounds a bit like a contradiction in terms, but I am actually making sense—well, sort of. Most high-temperature superconductors are manufactured from layers of oxides, ...

A University of Minnesota Twin Cities-led team of scientists and engineers has developed a new method for making thin films of perovskite oxide semiconductors, a class of "smart" materials with unique ...

LONDON — Strontium titanate, a relatively well-known perovskite material, could be the dark horse to come through and provide a replacement high-k gate dielectric material at sub-25-nanometer process ...

DURING our work on the available thermionic emission from mixtures of the alkaline earth oxides (barium, strontium and calcium oxides), we have studied the properties of the system barium ...

In the lab: Predoctoral researcher Mathieu Mirjolet inserts a strontium vanadium oxide (SrVO3) film into a probe station for electrical testing. (Courtesy: ICMAB-CSIC) Few materials are both ...

The thermal hall effect (THE) is a physical phenomenon characterized by tiny transverse temperature differences occurring in a material when a thermal current passes through it and a perpendicular ...

Using molecular beam epitaxy (MBE), Cornell has devised a method of growing an emerging class of oxide films called Ruddlesden-Poppers. These oxides are layered structures, which consist of 2D-based ...

Researchers are pushing the limits of electron microscopy into the tens of picometer scale, a fraction of the size of a hydrogen atom. The ability to see at this subatomic level is crucial for ...

Makers of fireworks and flares have long believed that the beautiful red color in their explosions could be attained only with chlorine-based compounds. But after these ingredients combust, they can ...

Researchers at Penn State and the Molecular Foundry at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory are pushing the limits of electron microscopy into the tens of picometer scale, a fraction of the size of a ...