The world's first nuclear clock can detect changes in nature’s fundamental constants

Scientists have taken another giant step towards building the most precise clock ever imagined—one that could display not ...
IEEE

Accelerated Life Test and Prediction of Electromigration in Aluminum Interconnects Coupling Multiphysics Full Coupled Model With Optimized Atomic Flux Divergence Simulation

Abstract: With the miniaturization and high-power requirements of microelectronic devices, the current density carried by interconnects in packaging structures continually increases and reaches the ...

With a new molecule-based method, physicists peer inside an atom's nucleus

Physicists at MIT have developed a new way to probe inside an atom's nucleus, using the atom's own electrons as "messengers" ...
New Scientist

Google says its quantum computer can reveal the structure of molecules

A new quantum computing protocol may be able to augment a standard technique for understanding molecules in chemistry, ...
Nanowerk

Atom-scale stencil patterns help nanoparticles take new shapes and learn new tricks (w/video)

Researchers developed a method to pattern gold nanoparticles with atomic precision, creating patchy particles with new shapes ...

Atom-scale stencil patterns help nanoparticles take new shapes and learn new tricks

Inspired by an artist's stencils, researchers have developed atomic-level precision patterning on nanoparticle surfaces, ...
IEEE

Well- and Structure-Constrained Initial Velocity Building for Full-Waveform Inversion via a Generative Diffusion Model

Abstract: Full waveform inversion (FWI) plays an important role in velocity modeling due to its high-resolution advantages. However, its highly nonlinear characteristic leads to numerous local minima, ...

The Mystery of How Quasicrystals Form

New studies of the “platypus of materials” help explain how their atoms arrange themselves into orderly, but nonrepeating, patterns.
eLife

Fitting bifurcation structure, not voltage traces: A biophysically inspired derivation of reduced neuron models exemplified by potassium dynamics

This work demonstrates an objective way to select parameter values for a quadratic integrate-and-fire model so that its bifurcation diagram matches a specific target diagram, generated from the ...