Florian Le Mardelé and Milan Orlita, LNCMI-Grenoble. Alloying stands out as a pivotal technological method employed across various compounds, be they metallic, magnetic, or semiconducting, serving to fine-tune their properties to meet specific requirements. Ternary semiconductors represent a prominent example of such alloys. They allow fine-tuning of electronic bands – [...]

Raj Pandya, University of Warwick, UK, Chris Howard, University College London, UK, Peter Christianen, HFML-FELIX Nijmegen. For the first time, researchers have demonstrated that phosphorene nanoribbons – thin pieces of black phosphorus, only a few nanometers wide (figure 1, bottom) – exhibit both magnetic and semiconducting properties at room temperature. [...]