Magnetically driven metal-insulator transition in a correlated spin-orbit material
Perhaps the most basic classification of a material is according to whether or not it conducts electricity in response to an applied electric field. However, our understanding of why the metallic state is preferred over the insulating one, or vice versa, is far from...
New method to measure nano-mechanical bending
New advances in nanometrology have been developed by researchers at the London Centre for Nanotechnology and published in the journal Scientific Reports, opening new opportunities to convert nanomechanical biosensors to reliable consumer products. The new method to...
Multidomain Ferroelectrics Test Positive for Negative Capacitance
An international collaboration involving researchers from the Department of Physics and Astronomy and the LCN, and colleagues from Switzerland, Spain, France and Luxembourg has demonstrated that destabilising the spontaneous polarisation of a special class of...
A Sticky-Spaghetti-with-Meatballs Model to Describe Nuclear Import
A sticky-spaghetti-with-meatballs model may be sufficient to describe how the nucleus in each of our cells selectively allows the entrance and exit of certain molecules, while blocking others to protect genetic material and normal functions of the cell. That is the...