News tagged with atomic size


Rresearchers achieves major step toward faster chips

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created May 07, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (8) | comments 0

New research findings could lead to faster, smaller and more versatile computer chips. A team of scientists and engineers from Stanford, the University of Florida and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is the first to ...


Trading carats for nanometers - and defective diamonds for crystal clear microscopy

Trading carats for nanometers - and defective diamonds for crystal clear microscopy

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Mar 02, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Large, perfect diamonds are precious to almost all of us but to some scientists, it is the defects that really matter. This is because defects can form nanoscopic color centers, which play ...





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Portable Precision: A New Type of Atomic Clock

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jun 11, 2009 | popularity 3.2 / 5 (9) | comments 2

The most accurate atomic clocks in the world are based on the output of cesium atoms. These ultra-precise fountain clocks measure the frequency and time interval of seconds by using a fountain-like movement of cesium atoms. ...


Portable Precision: A New Type of Atomic Clock

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 10, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- The most accurate atomic clocks in the world are based on the output of cesium atoms. These ultra-precise fountain clocks measure the frequency and time interval of seconds by using a fountain-like movement ...


Size-specific cracking shakes out at the nanoscale

Size-specific cracking shakes out at the nanoscale

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 01, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Certain sizes of nanostructures may be more susceptible to failure by fracture than others. That is the result of new research by LLNL's Michael Manley and colleagues from Los Alamos National ...


Nano Structures Can Pose Big Measurement Problems

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Apr 27, 2007 | popularity 2.6 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Materials scientists will tell you that to best understand, characterize and eventually utilize the properties of a specific material, you have to be able to define how the atoms within it are arranged. In the case of common ...


'NMR on a chip' features NIST magnetic mini-sensor

'NMR on a chip' features magnetic mini-sensor

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 19, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (17) | comments 0

A super-sensitive mini-sensor developed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology can detect nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) in tiny samples of fluids flowing through a novel microchip. The prototype ...


Exploring the limits of antiferromagnetism in nanostructured materials

In Brief: Exploring the limits of antiferromagnetism in nanostructured materials

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers in the Electronic & Magnetic Materials & Devices Group (Argonne National Laboratory) and at Politecnico di Milano in Italy explored the limits of antiferromagnetism in a nanostructured ...


New imaging technique reveals the atomic structure of nanocrystals

New imaging technique reveals the atomic structure of nanocrystals

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Feb 18, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new imaging technique developed by researchers at the University of Illinois overcomes the limit of diffraction and can reveal the atomic structure of a single nanocrystal with a resolution ...


A meteor streaks diagonally across the sky

Space rock gives Earth a close shave

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Mar 03, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (16) | comments 6

An asteroid of a similar size to a rock that exploded above Siberia in 1908 with the force of a thousand atomic bombs whizzed close past Earth on Monday, astronomers said on Tuesday.


Controlling the size of nanoclusters

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Aug 19, 2008 | popularity 2 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Melissa Patterson, a W. Burghardt Turner Fellow at Stony Brook University (SBU), will give a talk at the American Chemical Society's national meeting in Philadelphia on controlling the size of nanoclusters, research she performed ...


Chemists create two-armed nanorobotic device to maneuver world's tiniest particles

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Feb 15, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Chemists at New York University and China's Nanjing University have developed a two-armed nanorobotic device that can manipulate molecules within a device built from DNA. The device is described in the latest issue of the ...



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