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• Researchers publish new ideas about particle motion at absolute zero

  Researchers from TU Wien (Vienna, Austria) have published new ideas about quantum critical points where phase transitions happen at absolute zero. details>>

• Physicists turn crystal into electrical circuit with light

  Physicists at Washington State University (Pullman, Wash.) have developed the ability to write an electrical circuit into a crystal using a laser. details>>

• Simulations demonstrate the impact of splashing at microscopic level

  The growing interest in spray cooling for high-heat flux electronics has led researchers at Villanova University and the University of Leeds to study the basic physics of droplet impingement experimentally and in computer simulations. details>>

• Researchers control thermal and electric currents in nanoscale devices

  Researchers have demonstrated that using a microscopic quantum observer can control thermal and electrical currents in nanoscale devices. details>>

• New research gives better understanding of optomechanical cooling

  Researchers at the University of Arkansas (Fayetteville) have defined a new quantum cooling limit for optomechanical cooling. details>>

• Reducing oxygen stabilizes nonacrystalline materials at high temperatures

  Researchers at the University of Connecticut (UConn) have discovered that a reduction in oxygen in some nanocrystalline materials could enhance strength and durability at high temperatures. details>>

• Researchers map microscopic figure of merit for thermoelectric materials

  Collaboration between researchers at the University of Washington and the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology has led to a breakthrough in the mapping of microscopic thermoelectric properties. details>>

• Researchers develop battery-free cell phone that harvests ambient power

  Researchers at the University of Washington have developed an innovative way of avoiding potential fires in cell phone batteries - they removed the battery. details>>

• Physicists observe Maxwells Demon brought to quantum life

  A team of European researchers have created a quantum mechanical version of Maxwell's Demon, a thought experiment devised by physicist James Clerk Maxwell in 1867. details>>

• Researchers use new technique to produce thin layers of semiconductor material

  Researchers from IBM have developed a technique called controlled spalling and used it to produce think layers from gallium nitride (GaN) crystals. details>>