News tagged with applied physics
Materials scientists find better model for glass creation
Nov 04, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Harvard materials scientists have come up with what they believe is a new way to model the formation of glasses, a type of amorphous solid that includes common window glass.
Tiny Music Player Made from Wire Bridge (w/ Video)
Nov 04, 2009 |
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(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
Oct 28, 2009 |
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(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
Oct 12, 2009 |
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(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
Oct 02, 2009 |
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(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 ...
Why they grow? Getting to the roots of lethal metal whiskers
Sep 29, 2009 |
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(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 ...
Physicists create first atomic-scale map of quantum dots
Sep 29, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Michigan physicists have created the first atomic-scale maps of quantum dots, a major step toward the goal of producing "designer dots" that can be tailored for specific applications.
Graphene Shows High Current Capacity and Thermal Conductivity
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jul 29, 2009 |
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(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 create first electronic quantum processor
Jun 28, 2009 |
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A team led by Yale University researchers has created the first rudimentary solid-state quantum processor, taking another step toward the ultimate dream of building a quantum computer.
Highly conductive nanocomposites: Inexpensive plastic used in CDs could improve electronics
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
May 15, 2009 |
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If one University of Houston professor has his way, the inexpensive plastic now used to manufacture CDs and DVDs will one day soon be put to use in improving the integrity of electronics in aircraft, computers and iPhones.
Scientists demonstrate effect of confining dielectrics on semiconductor nanowire conductivity
May 05, 2009 |
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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 (Update)
May 04, 2009 |
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(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
Apr 13, 2009 |
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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, ...
Cheap, efficient white light LEDs new design
Apr 07, 2009 |
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Roughly 20 percent of the electricity consumed worldwide is used to light homes, businesses, and other private and public spaces. Though this consumption represents a large drain on resources, it also presents ...
Flexible, transparent supercapacitors -- bend and twist them like a poker card
Mar 31, 2009 |
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It is a completely transparent and flexible energy conversion and storage device that you can bend and twist like a poker card.
