Magnetic materials have diverse applications across multiple sectors, ranging from magnetic resonance imaging machines, used to detect diseases, to electric motors, sensors, and wind turbines just to name a few. The demand ...

Polymer thin film mechanics represents a hugely promising field of research. Due to their versatility and ease of fabrication, polymer films and coatings rank among the most ubiquitous systems in all of nanotechnology. The ...

The development of an electrically pumped polymer laser fabricated using simple solution processing would revolutionise the optial data storage and communications industry. In order to achieve this, a research strategy, ...

Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors (MKIDs) are photon detectors based on superconducting resonators, capable of detecting single photons with inherent energy resolution and μs time resolution, while also allowing ...

Optical surface metrology techniques offer many advantages over conventional methods. These include a greater sensitivity, improved lateral and vertical resolution, non-contact and full-field measurements and the fact that ...

For the fast uptake into industrial applications, the further development of fabrication methods for nanomaterials which are inexpensive and simultaneously technologically feasible is one of the major key factors. One ...

The ability to propagate light around a `circuit' on a single chip has an abundance of applications. Connecting different elements can bring huge functionality to a minuscule device---as evidenced by integrated electronic ...

The formation of low -mass (M ~ 1 M⊙) stars has generally been divided into four stages before reaching the main sequence: Class 0 (cloud of gas and dust) -> Class I (embedded star with disk in envelope) -> Class II (visible ...

Recently, composites of polymers with various one-dimensional nanoparticles, mainly carbon nanotubes, have been investigated to develop robust electrically and thermally conductive materials or for mechanical reinforcement. ...