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Electric Vehicle Batteries Could Get Big Boost With New Polymer Coating

“Scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have developed a conductive polymer coating – called HOS-PFM – that could enable longer lasting, more powerful lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles. “The advance opens up a new approach to developing EV batteries …

Flat, pancake-sized metalens images lunar surface in an engineering first

“Penn State-led research team creates the first ultrathin, compact metalens telescope capable of imaging far-away objects. Astronomers and amateurs alike know the bigger the telescope, the more powerful the imaging capability. To keep the power but streamline one of the …

Gabriela Schlau-Cohen: Illuminating photosynthesis

“Using ultrafast spectroscopy, the chemistry professor studies the energy transfer that occurs at femtosecond timescales inside plant leaves. During photosynthesis, chlorophyll in plants absorbs packets of energy called photons from the sun’s rays. This energy is then transferred to …

Graphene quantum dots show promise as novel magnetic field sensors

“Physicists found that speeding electrons trapped in circular loops in graphene quantum dots are highly sensitive to external magnetic fields. Trapped electrons traveling in circular loops at extreme speeds inside graphene quantum dots are highly sensitive to external magnetic fields …

HRL Laboratories Silicon Encoded Spin Qubits Achieve Universality

“HRL Laboratories, LLC, has published the first demonstration of universal control of encoded spin qubits. This newly emerging approach to quantum computation uses a novel silicon-based qubit device architecture, fabricated in HRL’s Malibu cleanroom, to trap single electrons in …

In the world’s smallest ball game, scientists throw and catch single atoms using light

“Free-flying atoms could enable a new type of quantum computer and the study of single-atom collisions In many baseball-obsessed countries like Korea, Japan and the United States, with spring months comes the start of the season and quite a few …

Integrated Development Kit Speeds Design of FPGA-Based Satellite Systems

“Developers can prototype with the same low-power, high-throughput Radiation-Tolerant (RT) FPGA that will be used in spaceflight Developers using FPGAs to meet satellite system payload and throughput requirements can speed designs by prototyping with space-qualified devices rather than commercial off-the-shelf …

Intel’s New Agilex 7 FPGAs Deliver Industry’s Fastest Transceivers

“Today, Intel launched Intel Agilex® 7 FPGAs with F-Tile, equipped with the fastest field-programmable gate array (FPGA) transceivers available on the market1 and designed to help customers address challenges across the most bandwidth-intensive areas of the data-centric world, including data …

Light, electrons and energy in the mix

“Recent discoveries show previously unknown ways to change the very nature of materials by coupling the light-induced movement of electrons to energy transitions inside them. Something very strange is formed - neither pure energy nor physical motion. “It’s hard to …

Lunar Telescope Will Search for Ancient Radio Waves

“DOE and NASA are collaborating to land a radio telescope on the far side of the moon and probe an unexplored era of the early universe. Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory are …