Photonic crystals move into new areas
Photonic quasicrystals and table-top accelerators are the latest breakthroughs for these remarkable materials
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The ups and downs of doping
Impurity atoms are both good and bad for high-temperature superconductors
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Going for gold
Researchers have made a new gold alloy that could have applications in jewellery, electronics and elsewhere
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Dirac Medal goes to condensed matter physicists
Prize recognizes work of Sam Edwards at Cambridge and Patrick Lee at MIT
Purity pays off for nanotubes
New approach improves performance for carbon-based devices
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Atomic crystals go 2D
One-atom-thick materials created
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Jack Kilby: 1923–2005
Inventor of the integrated circuit dies at 81
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Oxygen loses its magnetism under pressure
A solid-state transformation that physicists had long thought might occur has finally been observed
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Unconventional wisdom
Plutonium compound bridges superconducting extremes
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Counting electrons one by one
Novel device could lead to new standard for electric current
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