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Faster thin film devices for energy storage and electronics

An international team finds new single-crystalline oxide thin films with fast and dramatic changes in electrical properties via Li-ion intercalation through engineered ionic transport channels. more

Ion-selective 2D polymer membrane works as the battery electrode skin

New Publication in Nature Communication more

Graphene nanoribbons in quantum electronics and spintronics

Exceptionally clean single-electron transistors from solutions of molecular graphene nanoribbons more

Thin film oxides: From honeycombs to quasicrystals

Breaking translational symmetry while maintaining long range order is one fascinating aspect of quasicrystals. For two-dimensional oxide quasicrystals, researchers at the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the Max Planck Institute Halle… more

Integrated waveguide photodetectors for visible light

In a paper published in Nature Communications, scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics, Halle have demonstrated broadband, high-efficiency silicon nitride-on-silicon waveguide photodetectors that are monolithically integrated with visible light photonic circuits. more

Prof. Georg Woltersdorf generates new nanoscale spin waves

Max Planck Fellow Prof. Georg Woltersdorf and physicists from the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg generate new nanoscale spin waves more

Cooper pairs with finite momentum rectify supercurrent flow

In a paper published in Nature Physics, scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics, Halle show that a lateral Josephson junction made from a type-II Dirac semimetal Nickel di-telluride (NiTe2) and superconducting Niobium (Nb) electrodes exhibits a large nonreciprocal critical… more

A novel strategy to stabilize non-collinear spin textures in van der Waals magnets

A novel strategy to stabilize non-collinear spin textures in van der Waals magnets by self-intercalation. more

Switching of chiral antiferromagnetic films: a new mechanism is proposed

Scientists from the Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics found a new mechanism to a novel method of manipulating the ground state of a special class of antiferromagnetic thin films with chiral magnetic ground states. more

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