Nuclear physicists used a little magic in their latest experiment conducted at the U.S. Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, and the result has revealed surprising ...

Putting hypersensitive quantum sensors in a living cell is a promising path for tracking cell growth and diagnosing diseases—even cancers—in their early stages. Many of the best, most powerful quantum ...

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Core/shell quantum dots represent a class of semiconductor nanocrystals in which a core material is overcoated by a shell of a wider-band-gap semiconductor. This heterostructuring serves to passivate ...

Structural deformation modifies the bandgap, exciton fine structure and phonon energy of semiconductors, providing an additional knob to control their optical properties. The impact can be exploited ...

(Nanowerk News) Scintillators are detectors that make high-energy X-rays or particles visible through flashes of light to form an image. Their many applications include particle physics, medical ...

A graphical representation of the type of X-ray imaging setup that could employ the new colloidal quantum shell-based scintillation technology. Scintillators are detectors that make high-energy X-rays ...

Drug designers working on protein-level chemistry have long been blocked by a hard computational wall: classical supercomputers cannot fully model the electronic structure of large biomolecules.