Research Progress
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Sodium-ion Battery Achieves No Thermal Runaway
The team led by HU Yong-Sheng at the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences has shattered the traditional perception that "non-flammability equals safety". Moving beyond a single line of... 09-04-2026 -
Flexible CZTSSe Photovoltaics Realizes a New Performance Record
Researchers from Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences report a performance breakthrough in flexible emerging thin-film solar cells, CZTSSe, setting a new record for this field. This ac... 30-03-2026 -
Kesterite Solar Cells Realize 15.1% Record Efficiency that Exceeds Industrialization Threshold
The team in Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences reported the first realization of certified record efficiency exceeding 15%, reaching 15.1%, in CZTSSe thin-film solar cells through ba... 20-03-2026 -
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Researchers Realize Room-temperature Two-dimensional Multiferroic Metal
Air-stable bilayer CrTe₂ exhibits intrinsic room-temperature multiferroicity. Structural and magnetic characterization reveal an alternating ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic bilayer architectur... 06-03-2026 -
Scientists Revealed the Structure and Evolutionary Strategy of the Euglena gracilis Photosystem I
A research team led by Associate Professor Yumei Wang from the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences has used cryo-electron microscopy to determine the 2.23 Å high resolution structu... 05-03-2026 -
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Scientists Reveal Photoinduced Femtosecond Spin-flip in 2D magnet Fe₃GeTe₂
Light-driven 300-fs spin-flip in Fe₃GeTe₂, via optically excited A1g phonons and nonequilibrium electrons, enables ultrafast spintronic control. 02-02-2026 -
Scientists Characterize Heating Process in a Driven Quantum System
Chinese scientists observed a tunable prethermal plateau in a 78-qubit quantum processor, showing how random multipolar driving controls the system's heating before full thermalization. 29-01-2026 -
OSTα/β transport mechanisms revealed by cryo-EM
Bile acids (BAs) are crucial amphipathic surfactants that function as multifaceted regulators in various physiological processes, including nutrient absorption and distribution, lipid metabolism an... 27-01-2026 -
One-dimensional Charged Domain Walls Discovered in Fluorite Ferroelectrics
Researchers from the Institute of Physics discovered one-dimensional charged domain walls in fluorite ferroelectrics. The atomic-scale size and electric-field tunability of these 1D CDWs challenge ... 23-01-2026 -
A Hexagonal Oxide Film that Can Act as a Water-Soluble Sacrificial Layer for Membrane Freestanding
Freestanding membranes of hexagonal oxides remain difficult to obtain. In this work, a water-soluble crystalline hexagonal BaAl₂O₄ is found to serve as a sacrificial layer for obtaining freestand... 20-01-2026 -
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A Universal Method to Predict Critical Points in Magnetic Systems
The frequency-dependent response function can be used as a general predictor for the critical points of both equilibrium and non-equilibrium magnetic phase transitions, and this indicator can be ex... 13-11-2025 -
Researchers Achieve Atomic-Scale Control of Quantum Interference
Researchers have developed an important all-electrical method to precisely control quantum interference at the atomic scale. Using a specialized microscope, they rapidly tune the spin states and ob... 13-10-2025