Killer pulses help characterize special surfaces July 29, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Detecting deadly fumes in subways, toxic gases in chemical spills, and hidden explosives in baggage is becoming easier and more efficient with a measurement technique called surface-enhanced Raman scattering. To further improve ... | |
 First STM spectroscopy of graphene flakes yields new surprises July 21, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 39 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California at Berkeley have performed the first scanning tunneling spectroscopy of ... | |
First neutrons created at the ISIS Second Target Station August 04, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
The UK's ISIS Second Target Station Project moved a major step closer to completion today when the first neutrons were created in the ISIS Second Target Station. After five years of planning and construction, the first neutrons ... | |
 Scientists demonstrate highly directional semiconductor lasers July 27, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 30 vote(s)
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Applied scientists at Harvard collaborating with researchers at Hamamatsu Photonics in Hamamatsu City, Japan, have demonstrated, for the first time, highly directional semiconductor lasers with a much smaller ... | |
 Qubits and Branes Share Surprising Features July 03, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 93 vote(s)
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What do black holes and entangled particles have in common? Until about a year ago, physicists thought that the two entities existed in completely separate worlds. Then, in 2007, physicist Michael Duff from ... | |
 Advance brings low-cost, bright LED lighting closer to reality July 17, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 68 vote(s)
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Researchers at Purdue University have overcome a major obstacle in reducing the cost of "solid state lighting," a technology that could cut electricity consumption by 10 percent if widely adopted. | |
 The Lightness of Electrons in a Twisting Metal Crystal July 25, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 24 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of researchers at Princeton University's Materials Research Science and Engineering Center has observed electrons moving through a crystal of bismuth metal behaving like light. | |
 Physicists tweak quantum force, reducing barrier to tiny devices July 14, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 53 vote(s)
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Cymbals don't clash of their own accord – in our world, anyway. But the quantum world is bizarrely different. Two metal plates, placed almost infinitesimally close together, spontaneously attract each other. | |
 Electron microscopy enters the picometer scale July 24, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 31 vote(s)
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Jülich scientists have succeeded in precisely measuring atomic spacings down to a few picometres using new methods in ultrahigh-resolution electron microscopy. This makes it possible to find out decisive parameters ... | |
An oblivious transfer protocol for quantum cryptography July 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 21 vote(s)
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“It's hard to beat the noise that you have with quantum information,” Barbara Terhal tells PhysOrg.com. “So our security protocol relies on the fact that storing quantum bits noiselessly is hard to do with current technology.” | |
 Physicists shed light on key superconductivity riddle July 21, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 41 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- MIT physicists believe they have identified a mysterious state of matter that has been linked to the phenomenon of high-temperature superconductivity. | |
Could better spin injection lead to a quantum information device? June 30, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 19 vote(s)
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One of the more promising types of materials for use in spintronics today is the class of metal alloys known as Heusler alloys. These alloys are named after a German engineer, and might be useful in technology in which electron ... | |
Physicists Discover New Particle: the Bottom-most 'Bottomonium' July 10, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 59 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Thirty years ago, particle physics delighted in discovering the "bottomonium" family—the set of particles that contain both a bottom quark and an anti-bottom quark but are bound together with different energies. ... | |
Shielding for ambitious neutron experiment July 24, 2008 | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 15 vote(s)
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In science fiction stories it is either the inexhaustible energy source of the future or a superweapon of galactic magnitude: antimaterial. In fact, antimaterial can neither be found on Earth nor in space, is extremely complex ... | |
Room temperature superconductivity: One step closer to the Holy Grail of physics July 09, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 112 vote(s)
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Scientists at the University of Cambridge have for the first time identified a key component to unravelling the mystery of room temperature superconductivity, according to a paper published in today's edition of the scientific ... | |
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