Published Tue, Aug 02, 2016
The International Institute of Physics of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (IIP-UFRN) is expecting to fill several post-doctoral research positions. Successful candidates should demonstrate a high level of expertise and strong academic record working in the areas of Foundations of... Published Thu, Jul 28, 2016
Former Ministry of Science and Technology and researcher from the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE), Professor Sérgio Rezende will present a colloquium at the IIP Auditorium next August 10, when he will discuss main concepts and novelties in the field of Spintronics. This event is... Published Fri, Jul 22, 2016
From July 4 to 15 the IIF-UFRN hosted the school and workshop “Strings at Dunes”, an international event dedicated to discuss the main advances made in the last years and present new perspectives to the future of the research on string theory. Several special lectures and other... Published Tue, Jul 19, 2016
Superconductivity and ferromagnetism are two antagonistic phenomena, given that a superconductor expels a magnetic field, which in turn destroys the superconductivity and, on the other hand, the ferromagnetism may be transformed into a special type of domain structure, while appearing in the... Published Fri, Jul 15, 2016
From Phys.org
A team of researchers with the University of California, MIT, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the National Institute for Materials Science in Japan has created images of relativistic electrons trapped in graphene quantum dots. In their paper published in the journal Nature... Published Tue, Jul 12, 2016
From PhysicsWorld.com
Images of relativistic electrons trapped in graphene quantum dots have been taken by physicists in the US and Japan. The ability to confine and control electrons in such a way could play an important role in developing graphene-based nanoscale devices and could also provide a...  |  |  |  |  |  |  |