In the right combinations and conditions, two-dimensional materials can host intriguing and potentially valuable quantum ...

By miniaturizing THz spectroscopy to a chip-scale platform, James McIver’s lab has uncovered a promising new method for controlling quantum materials. Under certain conditions, two-dimensional (2D) ...

Musical instruments and throats create different notes by making the air around them vibrate at particular frequencies (check out part one to find out how they do it). When you pluck the A string on a ...

Scientists have discovered that ultra-thin materials—just a few atoms thick—can naturally create tiny “cavities” that trap ...

Researchers have found that 2D materials can self-form microscopic cavities that trap light and electrons, altering their ...

Standing waves are one of those topics that lots of people have a working knowledge of, but few seem to really grasp. A Ham radio operator will tell you all about the standing wave ratio (SWR) of his ...

Standing waves are involved in various fundamental, natural phenomena over a wide range of scales, that is, from electron orbitals to planetary oscillations. Interactions between standing waves and ...