Why do glass and other amorphous materials deform more easily in some regions than in others? A research team from the University of Osaka, the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and ...

The generation of femtosecond optical pulses 1 has opened up a range of applications from real-time monitoring of chemical reactions through to ultrahigh-bit-rate optical communications 2, and has led ...

To explore possible treatments for various diseases, either animal models or human cell cultures are usually used first; however, animal models do not always mimic human diseases well, and cultures ...

“Business model” was one of the great buzzwords of the Internet boom, routinely invoked, as the writer Michael Lewis put it, “to glorify all manner of half-baked plans.” A company didn’t need a ...

Nottingham city centre is the cultural, commercial, financial and historical heart of Nottingham. The centre of the city is usually defined as the Old Market Square – the UK's largest city square.

Abstract: Quantum dot (QD) devices are usually desired to have a broadband gain spectrum. An alternative solution to achieve a broadband gain in QD devices is to use multiple layers with different QD ...

Abstract: Key elements in photonic quantum technologies and their implementations are triggered sources of single and indistinguishable photons. Among various candidates, semiconductor quantum dots ...

Graduate School of Engineering and Science, University of the Ryukyus, 1 Senbaru, Nishihara, Okinawa 903-0213, Japan ...

School of Chemical Engineering, Yeungnam University, 280 Daehak-ro, Gyeongsan, Gyeongbuk 38541, Republic of Korea ...