The discovery of iron-based superconductors breaks the monopoly on the family of high-temperature superconductors (HTS) held by copper-oxides (cuprates), and opens up a new avenue in the study of h...
08-08-2011
The discovery of superconductivity in iron based compounds by Prof. Hosono in 2008 received world wide attentions. Following his pioneering “1111” type RFeAs(OF) superconductor system (R: Rare ea...
27-06-2011
BiFeO3 (BFO) thin films as single-phase multiferroic material show larger electric polarization and weak ferromagnetism simultaneously at room temperature. BFO is one of the prime candidates for sw...
23-05-2011
The experimental discovery of graphene in 2004 has evoked ever-increasing interest in exploiting this remarkable material for future nanoelectronic applications. However, the fact that graphene is ...
26-04-2011
Nano-plasmonic structures have shown many interesting properties and attracted great attention recently. These properties make the manipulation of light at nanoscale becoming possible. Due to the s...
25-04-2011
The Wei Hua WANG’s group，Institute of Physic, Chinese Academy of Sciences recently investigated the structure feature of a model CuZr metallic glass during deformation by molecular dynamics simul...
19-04-2011
The charge and spin are two intrinsic properties of electron. Electronic devices mainly utilize the charge of electrons, while mass storage devices are based on the spin of electrons. Diluted magne...
22-03-2011
The topological insulators with exotic metallic surface states have already become the “star” materials in the fields of condensed matter physics and materials science, and have attracted great a...
17-02-2011
Metallic nanostructures have found enormous potentials in the areas of photocatalysis, integrated nanophotonic devices, bio-sensing, bio-imaging, solar cells, surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (S...
17-01-2011
Dye-sensitized solar cell (DSC) has established itself a representative thin film photovoltaic device since it offers the prospect of simple operation, low-cost fabrication and relatively high conv...
10-01-2011
Since the discovery of superconductivity in doped LaOFeAs with Tc=26 K [J. Am. Chem. Soc. 130, 3296 (2008)], a series of superconducting iron-based compounds were found, such as AeFe2As2 (Ae= K, Sr...
31-12-2010
When bulk materials are made into micro and nano scale fibres, there will be attractive improvement of structural and functional properties, even unusual experimental phenomena. The main drawback o...
27-12-2010
The research groups on laboratory astrophysics in Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have successfully modeled the loop-top x-ray source and reconnection outflows in solar flares by using intense la...
15-10-2010
Graphene is a new form of carbon materials discovered by scientists after fullerenes and carbon nanotubes. As a two-dimensional quantum system stable at room temperature, graphene is the first mate...
28-09-2010
There has been considerable interest in recent years in manganese and manganese silicide as promising candidates for spintronics applications. In particular, the study of the initial stages of the ...
27-09-2010
