In many quantum materials—materials with unusual electrical and magnetic properties driven by quantum mechanical effects—electrons can organize themselves into Landau levels. Landau levels are ...

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Energy efficiency in physics is not measured the way most people think about it. Instead of asking how much heat a process ...

Mishkat Bhattacharya receives funding from the Office of Naval Research. The modern world runs on electricity, and wires are what carry that electricity to every light, television, heating system, ...

Despite being riddled with impurities and defects, solution-processed lead-halide perovskites are surprisingly efficient at ...

Low-carbon energy systems are becoming increasingly complex due to high penetrations of renewable energy, distributed ...

Incredibly, for the first time, scientists have unraveled the mechanisms at play when rubbing a surface creates an electrical current, something that was first recorded in 600 BCE yet not fully ...

Now, Takahito Iida at the University of Osaka has proposed a new energy-harvesting technology that uses gyroscopic flywheel system that can be tuned to absorb energy efficiently over a broad range of ...