Future chips may replace silicon with a faster, more efficient 2D crystalline semiconductor packed with useful atomic ‘defects’

Researchers are harnessing the power of tiny defects in incredibly thin material to one day make computer chips that are faster and more efficient than traditional silicon semiconductor platforms."All of…

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Physicists’ laser experiment excites the nucleus of an atom and could enable a new type of atomic clock

Laser light passing through the transparent crystal and exciting the thorium nucleus. Credit: James Terhune, Hudson Group, UCLA For nearly 50 years, physicists have dreamed of the secrets they could…

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