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A new transistor technology does not require semiconductor doping - offering decisive advantages for controlling and reading quantum chips. The smaller electronic components become, the more complex their manufacture becomes. This has been a major problem for the chip industry for years.

An exotic quantum phenomenon manifests itself under conditions where one would not normally expect it, show scientists at TU Wien (Vienna). Nature has many rhythms: the seasons result from the Earth's movement around the sun, the ticking of a pendulum clock results from the oscillation of its pendulum.

Cooperation between two Viennese universities decodes the mechanism of photoswitches - with potential for medicine, materials and electronics. An inter-university team from TU Wien and the University of Vienna has made important progress in understanding so-called photoswitches. These tiny molecular "light switches" change their structure when they are irradiated with light - similar to a switch that changes between "on" and "off".

How can you produce the best possible image in a microscope without destroying the sample? A new trick enables gentle imaging with maximum image quality. Everyone who ever took a photo knows the problem: if you want a detailed image, you need a lot of light. In microscopy, however, too much light is often harmful to the sample - for example, when imaging sensitive biological structures or investigating quantum particles.

The 'State of the Climate' report has just been published. In this assessment of the global climate system, researchers from the CLIMERS group at TU Wien have published articles on soil moisture and Vegetation Optical Depth (VOD), thus contributing to a differentiated picture of the consequences of climate change.

Researchers at TU Wien are developing thermochemical storage systems that can be used to store energy over very long periods with minimal loss. Energy can be stored in various forms: electrically, thermally or thermochemically. Depending on the storage form used, energy can be stored for different lengths of time or retrieved in different forms.

New applications often require new materials. Quite often, materials are needed that do not occur naturally or have very specific properties. In order to find suitable materials for pioneering technologies, it is often not enough to follow the trial-and-error principle and systematically work through the periodic table.

Light-on-light scattering is an exotic process with surprising significance for particle physics. Researchers at TU Wien have shown that a previously underestimated effect plays an important role in this process. Usually, light waves can pass through each other without any resistance. According to the laws of electrodynamics, two light beams can exist in the same place without influencing each other; they simply overlap.

TU Wien (Vienna) develops new industry indicator: A data model helps to incorporate CO2 emissions, resource consumption and social factors directly into production planning. How sustainable is our industry really? Until now, when people talked about efficiency, they mainly focused on how well machines are utilised, how often they break down and how fast they produce.

Where does the Moon's exosphere come from? A TU Wien study using real lunar rock reveals that the erosive effect of solar wind ions on the Moon has been vastly overestimated. The Moon's surface is continuously bombarded by the solar wind - a stream of electrically charged particles ejected by the Sun.

Mathematical Guarantees for Neural Networks: Interdisciplinary Team Presents New Method at Leading AI Conference ICML How reliable is artificial intelligence, really? An interdisciplinary research team at TU Wien, has developed a method that allows for the exact calculation of how reliably a neural network operates within a defined input domain.

After decades of searching, an exotic new state of matter may finally have been found: An international research team, including the TU Wien, presents compelling evidence. Since the 1970s, scientists have speculated whether materials could exist that exhibit a very particular form of magnetic disorder-so-called quantum spin liquids (QSLs).

Improved thermoelectrics: A research team at TU Wien has demonstrated how electrical current can be generated using "traffic jam of electrons" in certain materials. Electricity can be easily converted into heat - every electric cooker does it. But is the opposite also possible? Can heat be converted into electricity - directly, without a steam turbine or similar detours? Physicist Thomas Seebeck answered this question with a clear 'yes' over 200 years ago.

A research team led by Stefan Pflügl has succeeded in genetically manipulating the microorganism T. kivui to metabolize carbon monoxide. Stefan Pflügl (left) in the lab with the first authors of the two publications, Angeliki Sitara (center) and Rémi Hocq (right). " aria-haspopup="dialog" Genetic changes can occur naturally through evolution or can be initiated with the help of genetic engineering.

Quantum effects are often used today for extremely precise measurements. But where is the absolute limit of accuracy? Results from TU Wien and collaborators show that it is better than expected. How can the strange properties of quantum particles be exploited to perform extremely accurate measurements? This question is at the heart of the research field of quantum metrology.

In a collaboration between TU Wien and FU Berlin, researchers have measured what happens when quantum physical information is lost. This clarifies important connections between thermodynamics, information theory and quantum physics. Heat and information - these are two very different concepts that, at first glance, appear to have nothing to do with each other.

After years of research into the magnetic dipole moment of muons, theory and experiment have finally been compared with precision - with excellent agreement. One of the major cracks in modern physics may now have been closed: for years, scientists puzzled over why the measured values for the magnetic moment of muons did not match the calculations derived from the generally accepted Standard Model of particle physics.

An innovative combination of methods enables the precise localization of individual atoms in ultrathin materials. A research team from the University of Vienna and TU Wien has successfully embedded individual platinum atoms into an ultrathin material and, for the first time, pinpointed their positions within the lattice with atomic precision.

TU Wien (Austria) and Keio University (Japan) have now found a way to create artificial blood vessels in miniature organ models in a rapid and reproducible manner. Schematic representation of a hepatic lobule (left) and 3D view of the vascularized hepatic lobule on-chip after 9 days of culture (right) " aria-haspopup="dialog" Endothelialized laser-patterned channels after 7 days of culture (left) and magnified view of immunofluorescence-stained microvessel (CD31 in red, nuclei in blue) " aria-haspopup="dialog" How can we investigate the effects of a new drug?