Mesoporous silicon: Semiconductor with new talents
Silicon is the best-known semiconductor material. However, controlled nanostructuring drastically alters the material’s properties. Using a specially developed etching apparatus, a team at HZB ...
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Nanoislands on silicon with switchable topological textures
Nanostructures with specific electromagnetic patterns promise applications in nanoelectronics and future information technologies. However, it is very challenging to control those patterns. Now, a ...
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HiRSE continues, now as Joint Lab
The innovation pool project on Research Software Engineering (RSE) – HiRSE_PS – brings together all programs and centers in Helmholtz Information to support the establishment ...
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BESSY II: Heterostructures for Spintronics
Spintronic devices work with spin textures caused by quantum-physical interactions. A Spanish-German collaboration has now studied graphene-cobalt-iridium heterostructures at BESSY II. The results show ...
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Langbeinites show talents as 3D quantum spin liquids
A 3D quantum spin liquid has been discovered in the vicinity of a member of the langbeinite family. The material’s specific crystalline structure and ...
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A Review of the 2024 Strategic Advisory Board Meeting at Helmholtz Information
In early May of this year, the annual meeting of the Strategic Advisory Board of Helmholtz Information took place. The Strategic Advisory Board, a ...
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Where quantum computers can score
The travelling salesman problem is considered a prime example of a combinatorial optimisation problem. Now a Berlin team led by theoretical physicist Prof. Dr. ...
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Unconventional piezoelectricity in ferroelectric hafnia
Hafnium oxide thin films are a fascinating class of materials with robust ferroelectric properties in the nanometre range. While their ferroelectric behaviour is extensively ...
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Higher measurement accuracy opens new window to the quantum world
A team at HZB from Helmholtz Information has developed a new measurement method that, for the first time, accurately detects tiny temperature differences in ...
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Graphene on titanium carbide triggers a novel phase transition
Researchers from the Helmholtz Research Field Information have discovered a Lifshitz-transition in TiC, driven by a graphene overlayer, at the photon source BESSY II. ...