New research has identified a nanostructure that improves the anode in lithium-ion batteries. Instead of using graphite for the anode, the researchers turned to silicon: a material that stores ...

Working at the Oak Ridge National Lab (ORNL), the team achieved its feat by using graphene to trap groups of silicon clusters, each comprising six atoms. Graphene is a sheet of carbon just one atom ...

Researchers at the University of California, Riverside, have uncovered how to manipulate electrical flow through crystalline ...

The ORNL research team documented the atoms' unique behavior by first trapping groups of silicon atoms, known as clusters, in a single-atom-thick sheet of carbon called graphene.

Firstly, the doped material must replace a silicon atom in the crystalline structure, rather than in an interstitial position—one that is between two silicon atoms in their normal crystalline ...

Take one atom of the element antimony, use an ion beam to shoot it into a silicon substrate, and you just may be on your way to building a working quantum computer.

Silicene’s one-atom-thick structure could be even more effective in building faster transistors and computers, partly because of how its electrons are arranged.

A leading contender to replace silicon as the basis for computing has made another step forward. Transistors one atom thick and ten atoms wide have been made by UK researchers. They were carved ...

Silicon-vacancy (SiV) centers in diamond are promising candidates for quantum technologies, enabling nanoscale sensing, quantum communication, and quantum computing with atom-like optical and spin ...

These nitrogens are believed to stabilize the divalent silicon atom, in part by donating electrons to a vacant orbital on the silicon. The cyclic structure also seems to give the molecules stability.