A bright future for plastics -- robot 'skin,' flexible laptops and electric posters June 30, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 16 vote(s)
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WITH market analysts predicting a ten fold increase in the value of the organic light emitting display industry, from £1.5 billion to £15.5 billion, by 2014, it is no wonder that scientists and governments alike are keen ... | |
Developing better nano-electronics by understanding nonadiabatic effects June 17, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 24 vote(s)
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“Basically,” Michele Lazzeri tells PhysOrg.com, “the Born-Oppenheimer adiabatic approximation tells us how atoms are vibrating.” This adiabatic effect is used to describe phonons, which are modes of vibration that ... | |
Looking for the quantum properties of the Big Bang June 13, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 61 vote(s)
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“General relativity doesn’t recognize quantum physics,” Martin Bojowald tells PhysOrg.com. And that, he insists, causes problems when it comes to understanding the evolution of the universe from the Big Bang: “You ... | |
Invisible Waves Shape Continental Slope, Researcher Says June 30, 2008 | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 17 vote(s)
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A class of powerful, invisible waves hidden beneath the surface of the ocean can shape the underwater edges of continents and contribute to ocean mixing and climate, researchers from The University of Texas at Austin have ... | |
New technology may help Olympic sailing June 30, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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A team of researchers at the Ocean University of China has developed and tested a mobile lidar (light detection and ranging) station that can accurately measure wind speed and direction over large areas in real time -- an ... | |
 Liquid Crystals Slow Light Pulses to a Snail's Pace June 10, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 91 vote(s)
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In a vacuum, the speed of a light pulse is always a constant at 186,000 miles (300,000 km) per second. But by changing the medium through which light travels, physicists can slow down light pulses, and possibly ... | |
 Researchers develop a worldwide tourism network June 11, 2008 | User rating: 3.4 / 5 after 33 vote(s)
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It wasn't too long ago in human history that people rarely, if ever, traveled beyond the village they were born in. We've come a long way since then: according to the World Tourism Organization (WTO), international ... | |
A novel X-ray source could be brightest in the world June 20, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 25 vote(s)
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Oscillator projected to increase current brightness by millions of times
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 Researchers create mercury-absorbent container linings for broken CFLs June 27, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 19 vote(s)
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With rising energy prices and greater concern over global warming, compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) are having a successful run. Sales of the curlicue, energy-sipping bulbs, which previously had languished ... | |
 Can we freeze time? Using lasers to film the secret lives of atoms -- frame by frame July 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 20 vote(s)
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Cutting edge laser 'cameras' which can film the super-fast movements of electrons inside materials are the subject of an Imperial College exhibit at the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition 2008, which ... | |
Can silver nanoparticles be the key to a more compact laser? June 09, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 21 vote(s)
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“In random media, multiple scattering and interference reduce the diffusion of light, and in case of extremely strong scattering, photon localization, or Anderson localization of light, is predicted like electrons in glasses,” ... | |
Chasing rainbows June 27, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 12 vote(s)
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Engineers working in optical communications bear more than a passing resemblance to dreamers chasing rainbows. They may not wish literally to capture all the colors of the spectrum, but they do seek to control the rate at ... | |
 Exciton-based circuits eliminate a 'speed trap' between computing and communication signals June 19, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 20 vote(s)
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Particles called excitons that emit a flash of light as they decay could be used for a new form of computing better suited to fast communication, physicists at UC San Diego have demonstrated. | |
 'Squeezed' Light May Improve Gravitational Wave Detectors June 05, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 54 vote(s)
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A research collaboration has taken steps toward improving the sensitivity of gravitational wave detectors, devices designed to measure distance changes as minute as one-thousandth the diameter of a proton. ... | |
Silicon photonic crystals key to optical cloaking June 25, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 43 vote(s)
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In computer simulations, the researchers have demonstrated an approximate cloaking effect created by concentric rings of silicon photonic crystals. The mathematical proof brings scientists a step closer to a practical solution ... | |
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