News: Materials Science & Energy Research

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The Texas Scientist

One Photon at a Time

Xiaoqin Elaine Li explores how to control light emission from ultrathin materials stacked at slight angles, a single photon at a time

Ultrathin materials get stacked at a slight angle.

Accolades

Allan MacDonald Wins Wolf Prize in Physics

UT Austin's Allan MacDonald has received the 2020 Wolf Prize which is generally considered the most prestigious award in physics other than the Nobel Prize.

Allan Wolf wears a Wolf Prize medal as UT President Jay Hartzell applauds

Texas Advanced Computing Center

Twisted Physics: The Promise of Magic-Angle Graphene

Magic angle graphene produces switchable patterns of superconductivity, UT physicist Allan MacDonald found.

Atomic-scale model of the interface between graphene and a hybrid organic-inorganic perovskite for photovoltaics.

Research

New Material Might Lead to Higher Capacity Hard Drives

Researchers from the U.S. and Japan have demonstrated that they can store and retrieve information magnetically in a new class of materials.

Computer hard drive

UT News

Texas Engineers and Scientists to Launch $15.6 Million Center for Materials Research

The NSF grant, distributed over a six-year period through its Division of Materials Research, will launch a new Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC)...

Three researchers gather around a computer and examine results

Announcements

Researchers Win $2 Million Grant to Develop Atomically Thin Semiconductors

Xiaoqin Elaine Li's team could help enable bendable computer screens and wearable electronics

A scientist works with a set of scientific equipment

Features

Researchers Tackle the Dark Side of Moore's Law

To mark the 50th Anniversary of Moore's Law, we'll explore how much computing power has improved and how much farther it can go.

Illustration of Moore's Law