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Applied Physics Letters is a weekly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the American Institute of Physics devoted to the publication of new experimental and theoretical papers about applications of physics to science, engineering, and modern technology.

The Journal was established in 1962; the current editor is Nghi Q. Lam, at Argonne National Laboratory.

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Tiny Music Player Made from Wire Bridge

Tiny Music Player Made from Wire Bridge (w/ Video)

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (16) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- In 2008, scientists built a loudspeaker made of carbon nanotubes that produced sound and music based on the thermoacoustic effect. Now, a different team of scientists has built a loudspeaker ...


Harvesting Energy from Natural Motion: Magnets, Cantilever Capture Wide Range of Frequencies

Harvesting Energy from Natural Motion: Magnets, Cantilever Capture Wide Range of Frequencies

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (11) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- By taking advantage of the vagaries of the natural world, Duke University engineers have developed a novel approach that they believe can more efficiently harvest electricity from the motions ...


New Twist on Favorite X-ray Technique Promises Ultrafast Molecular Studies

New Twist on Favorite X-ray Technique Promises Ultrafast Molecular Studies

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 12, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of physicists from the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, including graduate student David Bernstein, have made a promising discovery that a well-known synchrotron technique ...


Nanotechnology gets a new light touch

Nanotechnology gets a new light touch

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 02, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Building the super-fast computers of the future has just become much easier thanks to an advance by Australian researchers that lets them grab hold of tiny electronics components and probe ...


Getting to the roots of lethal hairs

Why they grow? Getting to the roots of lethal metal whiskers

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Sep 29, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (10) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- A short circuit can be quite hairy: satellites have failed, a NASA computer centre was repeatedly paralysed and the US public heath authority recalled thousands of pacemakers - all because ...


Graphene Shows High Current Capacity and Thermal Conductivity

Graphene Shows High Current Capacity and Thermal Conductivity

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jul 29, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (13) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Recent research into the properties of graphene nanoribbons provides two new reasons for using the material as interconnects in future computer chips. In widths as narrow as 16 nanometers, ...


Scientists demonstrate effect of confining dielectrics on semiconductor nanowire conductivity

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 05, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Researchers at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), in collaboration with researchers from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), have demonstrated, for the first time, that the activation energy ...


Stretchable Nanotube Films May Advance Medical Electronics

Stretchable Nanotube Films May Advance Medical Electronics (Update)

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 04, 2009 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (10) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the issues hindering the development of medical electronic devices capable of being implanted in the human body is the lack of suitable materials. Most semiconducting materials are ...


Scientists demonstrate laser with controlled polarization

Scientists demonstrate laser with controlled polarization

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Apr 13, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (15) | comments 3

Applied scientists at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) in collaboration with researchers from Hamamatsu Photonics in Hamamatsu City, Japan, have demonstrated, for the first time, ...


Flexible, transparent supercapacitors are latest devices from USC nanotube lab

Flexible, transparent supercapacitors -- bend and twist them like a poker card

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Mar 31, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (15) | comments 10

It is a completely transparent and flexible energy conversion and storage device that you can bend and twist like a poker card.


High-speed signal mixer demonstrates capabilities of transistor laser

High-speed signal mixer demonstrates capabilities of transistor laser

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the University of Illinois have successfully demonstrated a microwave signal mixer made from a tunnel-junction transistor laser. Development of the device brings researchers ...


Will carbon nanotubes replace indium tin oxide?

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Mar 09, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Up until now, George Grüner tells PhysOrg.com, most of the studies regarding the properties - and uses - of carbon nanotubes have been restricted to the visible spectral range. “We, however, were interested in the ...


Quantum dots as midinfrared emitters

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Feb 23, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (10) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- “People are interested in the mid-infrared,” Dan Wasserman tells PhysOrg.com. Infrared light has a wavelength longer than visible light, and many molecules have numerous very strong optical resonances in the ...


Nanocomposite material provides photonic switching

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Feb 09, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (9) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Integrated photonic devices represent the wave of future technology. These devices will be extremely small, making use of photons on the nanoscale, and (hopefully) be very efficient in terms of power use. ...


The Power of Light: Moving Macroscopic Amounts of Matter

The Power of Light: Moving Macroscopic Amounts of Matter

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 29, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (12) | comments 17

(PhysOrg.com) -- Since 1970, scientists have been working with “optical tweezers” - lasers that move microscopic amounts of matter using forces originating from the light matter interaction. Now, for the first ...




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