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Doping is generally the practice of adding impurities to something.

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Study compares fundamental techniques for doping graphene sheets

(PhysOrg.com) -- Nanotechnology researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have conducted the first direct comparison of two fundamental techniques that could be used for chemically doping sheets of ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Nov 07, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Anti-doping expert warns cheating athletes

Professor David Cowan, Director of the Drug Control Center at King’s College London, has warned athletes who take prohibited performance-enhancing substances that the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games will be ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Sep 15, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Conducting energy on a nano scale

Modern electronics as we know them, from televisions to computers, depend on conducting materials that can control electronic properties. As technology shrinks down to pocket sized communications devices and microchips that ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jul 15, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Quantum dots with built-in charge boost solar cell efficiency by 50%

(PhysOrg.com) -- For the past few years, researchers have been using quantum dots to increase the light absorption and overall efficiency of solar cells. Now, researchers have taken a step further, demonstrating ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 13, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (21) | comments 13 | with audio podcast feature

'Nanocrystal doping' enhances semiconductor nanocrystals

Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have achieved a breakthrough in the field of nanoscience by successfully altering nanocrystal properties with impurity atoms -- a process called doping – ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Apr 04, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New property in warm superconductors discovered

(PhysOrg.com) -- Led by Simon Fraser University physicist Jeff Sonier, scientists at TRIUMF have discovered something that they think may severely hinder the creation of room-temperature (37 degrees Celsius) superconductors.

Physics / Superconductivity

created Nov 17, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (22) | comments 41 | with audio podcast

Scientific research indicates human athletic performance has peaked

It merited only a few paragraphs inside newspaper sports sections. Crystal Cox, a member of the gold-medal-winning U.S. women's 1,600-meter relay team in the 2004 Athens Olympics, had admitted to using a performance-enhancing ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Feb 18, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 5

Graphene Electronics: Single-step Technique Produces Both P-type and N-type Doping for Future Devices

(PhysOrg.com) -- A simple one-step process that produces both n-type and p-type doping of large-area graphene surfaces could facilitate use of the promising material for future electronic devices. The doping ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Feb 11, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (12) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Toshiba Develops High Performance CMOS Device Technology for 20nm Generation LSI

(PhysOrg.com) -- Toshiba Corporation today announced that it has developed a breakthrough technology for steep channel impurity distribution that delivers a solution to a key problem for 20nm generation CMOS ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Steroid doping tests ignore vital ethnic differences in hormone activity

Current steroid (testosterone) doping tests should be scrapped for international sport, because they ignore vital ethnic differences in hormone activity, suggests research published ahead of print in the British Journal of ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Mar 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0