News tagged with artificial atoms
Graphene's piezoelectric promise
Engineers predict that graphene can be coaxed into acting piezoelectric, merely by punching triangular holes into the material.
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jan 05, 2012 |
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When will artificial molecular machines start working for us?
Physicist Richard Feynman in his famous 1959 talk, "Plenty of Room at the Bottom," described the precise control at the atomic level promised by molecular machines of the future. More than 50 years later, synthetic molecular ...
Nov 25, 2011 |
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Putting artificial atoms on the clock
Around the turn of the century, scientists began to understand that atoms have discrete energy levels. Within the field of quantum physics, this sparked the development of quantum optics in which light is ...
Nov 07, 2011 |
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Building crystalline materials from nanoparticles and DNA
Nature is a master builder. Using a bottom-up approach, nature takes tiny atoms and, through chemical bonding, makes crystalline materials, like diamonds, silicon and even table salt. In all of them, the properties of the ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Oct 13, 2011 |
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Simulations unlock carbon nanotube potential for industry
a cylindrical network of molecules known as carbon nanotubes -- is attracting a great deal of attention from industry researchers these days.
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Oct 05, 2011 |
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Physicists build first single-photon router
(PhysOrg.com) -- By demonstrating that an artificial atom embedded in a transmission line can route a single photon from an input port to one of two output ports, physicists have built the first router working ...
Aug 22, 2011 |
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Let's get physics-al: Computing will continue to evolve into the future
Will the future bring us the teleportation devices of "Star Trek" or the sinister machines of the "Matrix"? Theoretical physicist Michio Kaku of the City College of New York says that many of the things that were once the ...
Jun 14, 2011 |
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Harnessing the energy of the sun: New technique improves artificial photosynthesis
Transforming solar energy into a usable form is a real challenge. One technique is to use semiconductors to store the energy as hydrogen. Unfortunately, the most efficient semiconductors are not the most stable. ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
May 10, 2011 |
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Direct electronic readout of 'artificial atoms'
In addition to flows of electrons, researchers are seeking options for the spin of electrons to be used in future information processing. In combination with these characteristics, a considerably larger volume ...
Feb 25, 2011 |
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Cancer drug linked to quantum dots increases drug uptake, reduces inflammation
Researchers at the University at Buffalo have developed a novel technology using quantum dots that is expected to have major implications for research and treatment of tuberculosis, as well as other inflammatory ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Nov 01, 2010 |
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Physicists build quantum amplifier with single artificial atom
(PhysOrg.com) -- By demonstrating how a single artificial atom can be used to amplify electromagnetic waves, physicists from Japan are opening up new possibilities for quantum amplifiers, which can be used ...
May 25, 2010 |
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Controlling the interaction between light and matter
(PhysOrg.com) -- "One of the most exciting things about this is that it gives us nice, clean control over the interaction between light and matter," William Kelly tells PhysOrg.com. "Our technique has the potential to giv ...
Apr 30, 2010 |
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Catching electrons in the act: Science on the attosecond scale
(PhysOrg.com) -- Understanding how to create artificial photosynthesis, or tough, flexible high-temperature superconductors, or better solar cells, or a myriad other advances, will only be possible when we ...
Apr 16, 2010 |
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Physicists lay the groundwork for cooler, faster computing
University of Toronto quantum optics researchers Sajeev John and Xun Ma have discovered new behaviours of light within photonic crystals that could lead to faster optical information processing and compact computers that ...
Dec 14, 2009 |
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A (nano-) window that washes itself?
A coating on windows or solar panels that repels grime and dirt? Expanded battery storage capacities for the next electric car? New Tel Aviv University research, just published in Nature Nanotechnology, detail ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Dec 03, 2009 |
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