Archive: 07/30/2004
New Way of Connection: 'Grid Computing' to Solve Insoluble
By connecting hundreds or even thousands of computers together to work on a single project, computer scientists are more frequently using a technique called grid computing to do previously intractable computations.
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New Way of 'Seeing': A 'Neutron Microscope'
A prototype microscope that uses neutrons instead of light to "see" magnified images has been demonstrated at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Neutron microscopes might eventually offer ...
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Superconductivity Physicists Puzzled by the Weird Behavior of Electrons
The weird behavior of electrons tunneling across an atomically flat interface within a cuprate superconductor has defied explanation by theories of high-temperature superconductivity. As will be reported in the journal Physical Review Letters, a team of scientists l ...
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New Physics Law Helps to Understand the Mechanism of High-Temperature Superconductivity
A research group led by a scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory has discovered a simple relationship that mathematically links the properties of a class of high-temperature sup ...
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Research on New Types of Optical Devices Modifies Optics
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded an $8 million, four-year, basic-research program grant to the California Institute of Technology to initiate research in photonics technologies. The technical focus of the effort will be on optofluidics ...
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Renesas Technology Releases Thinnest, Smallest Schottky Barrier Diodes in 1A Average Rectified Current Class
Only 0.55 mm (max.) thick, for power supply circuits in digital still cameras, mobile phones, etc. Renesas Technology Corp. today announced the HRV103A and HRV103B ultra-small Schottky barrier diodes for implementing sm ...
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Most powerful tunable laser: 10 kilowatts of infrared light from free electron laser
The Free-Electron Laser (FEL), supported by the Office of Naval Research and located at the U.S. Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, achieved 10 kilowatts of infrared laser light in late ...
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New Interface Standard for Large-Screen TFT-LCD Panels from Samsung
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., a leader in advanced silicon technology solutions, today announced a new interface standard for display driver ICs for large-screen TFT-LCD panels. Samsung's new current-mode interface of cas ...
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Global Warming Models Come Under Physicist's Scrutiny
Two University of Rochester studies published in the latest issue of Geophysical Research Letters underline how uncertain and complex the understanding of global climate can be. Both reports emphasize some of the shortcomings in cur ...
Jul 30, 2004 |
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Go Under Water by Submarine Bicycle
A water-proof multipurpose submarine apparatus with bicycle-like principle of moving is created by specialists from the St. Petersburg State Marine Technical University. It is sized for two people that can operate it without pr ...
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Advances in Phosphorescent OLED Technology Provide Additional Power Efficiency Gains for White Lighting
Universal Display Corporation, a leading developer of organic light emitting device (OLED) technologies for flat panel displays, lighting and other opto-electronic applications, has been awarded a $100,000 Small Business ...
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ESO's Very Large Telescope Obtains Unique Spectrum of a Meteor
While observing a supernova in a distant galaxy with the FORS instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope at the Paranal Observatory (Chile), astronomers were incredibly lucky to obtain serendipitously a high quality spectrum ...
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Satellite navigation could make Olympic Games safer
A future step up in security for the Olympic Games and other such events could come with help from space thanks to technologies being developed by the European Space Agency.
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Comparing RFID Frequencies for Item-Level Pharmaceutical Applications
Philips, TAGSYS and Texas Instruments today announced the release of a joint white paper, "Item Level Visibility in the Pharmaceutical Supply Chain: A Comparison of HF and UHF RFID Technologies." As established provide ...
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Future of Network Computing
The top minds at Sun Microsystems Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW) presented a rare display of innovations from supercomputing, sensor technology and next-generation storage to security, speech recognition and advanced search during Sun ...
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