Hamish Johnston

2 days ago | physicsworld.com | Hamish Johnston

Part of our International Year of Quantum Science and Technology coverage The UK-based company Delta.g has bagged the 2025 qBIG prize, which is awarded by the Institute of Physics (IOP). Initiated in 2023, qBIG celebrates and promotes the innovation and commercialization of quantum technologies in the UK and Ireland. Based in Birmingham, Delta.g makes quantum sensors that measure the local gravity gradient. This is done using atom interferometry, whereby laser pulses are fired at a cloud of...

2 days ago | physicsworld.com | Hamish Johnston

Scribner’s 670 Electrolysis Workstation is used to develop systems that convert electrical energy into fuels and chemical feedstocks The electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide is used to produce a range of chemical and energy feedstocks including syngas (hydrogen and carbon monoxide), formic acid, methane and ethylene. As well as being an important industrial process, the large-scale reduction of carbon dioxide by electrolysis offers a practical way to capture and utilize carbon dioxide....

1 week ago | physicsworld.com | Hamish Johnston

The presence of hydrogen in a sample is usually a bad thing in neutron scattering experiments, but now researchers in the US have turned the tables on the lightest element and used it to spot fake antique coins. The scattering of relatively slow moving neutrons from materials provides a wide range of structural information.

1 week ago | physicsworld.com | Hamish Johnston

By adapting their quantum twisting microscope to operate at cryogenic temperatures, researchers have made the first observations of a type of phonon that occurs in twisted bilayer graphene. These “phasons” could have implications for the electron dynamics in these materials.

2 weeks ago | physicsworld.com | Hamish Johnston

This episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast features the Nobel laureate Ferenc Krausz. He is director of the Max-Planck Institute of Quantum Optics and a professor at LMU Munich, both in Germany, and CEO and scientific director of the Center for Molecular Fingerprinting in Budapest, Hungary.