Semiconductors and electronics Research update New look for nanowire devices Researchers in Germany have made a mechanically robust nanowire transistor
Nanomaterials Research update Nanotubes go their separate ways German researchers have developed a way to separate metallic and semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotubes Read article: Nanotubes go their separate ways
Transport properties Research update Nanocrystals double up Researchers have made a new type of ‘metamaterial’ from magnetic and semiconducting building blocks Read article: Nanocrystals double up
Vacuum and cryogenics Research update Scientists spy on growing nanoparticles French scientists have developed a new method that monitors the growth of nanoparticles in real time
Optical physics Research update Carbon nanotubes light up IBM researchers have created an ultrasmall solid-state light source Read article: Carbon nanotubes light up
Optical physics Research update Silver nanoclusters make logic gates Researchers have demonstrated a new type of nanoscale computing Read article: Silver nanoclusters make logic gates
Transport properties Research update Single molecule switches for less Physicists make the lowest energy molecular switch to date Read article: Single molecule switches for less
Optical physics Research update Nanowires approach the quantum realm Researchers have made the smallest silicon nanowires ever
Soft matter and liquids Research update DNA acts like a “piston” Biophysicists have built the first expanding-contracting DNA device
Nanomaterials Research update Nanowire lasers go electric Scientists have made the first electrically driven nanowire laser Read article: Nanowire lasers go electric
Optics & Photonics Briefing This issue explores lasers and detectors, solar power, medical imaging and high-resolution displays