News tagged with light trap
Researchers make breakthrough in the quantum control of light
May 29, 2009 |
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Researchers at UC Santa Barbara have recently demonstrated a breakthrough in the quantum control of photons, the energy quanta of light. This is a significant result in quantum computation, and could eventually ...
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Scientists develop novel ion trap for sensing force and light
Jul 01, 2009 |
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Miniature devices for trapping ions (electrically charged atoms) are common components in atomic clocks and quantum computing research. Now, a novel ion trap geometry demonstrated at the National Institute ...
Breakthrough with light could help viral research
Oct 20, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have developed a method using the force of light to gently trap, manipulate and study tiny, active objects as miniscule as viruses -- opening doors to expanded viral research.
Integrated optical trap holds particles for on-chip analysis
Jun 30, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new type of optical particle trap can be used to manipulate bacteria, viruses and other particles on a chip as part of an integrated optofluidic platform. The optical trap is the latest ...
Using light to move and trap DNA molecules
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jan 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A major goal of nanotechnology research is to create a "lab on a chip," in which a tiny biological sample would be carried through microscopic channels for processing. This could make possible ...
Weight determination of individual viruses with a miniature ion trap
Dec 04, 2006 |
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Viruses are the simplest life forms on our planet, consisting of only DNA or RNA and a shell. After the prokaryotes (bacteria and archebacteria), viruses are the second most common type of organism. In our oceans they are ...
TRAPping proteins that work together inside living cells
Jun 15, 2009 |
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DNA might be the blueprint for living things, but proteins are the builders. Researchers trying to understand how and which proteins work together have developed a new crosslinking tool that is small and unobtrusive ...
Student engineers design environmentally safe, portable bug trap
May 09, 2007 |
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It may not go “bzzzzzzt” but it does kill bugs — with less potential harm to the environment and people than traditional bug zappers.
Physicist confines plasma components in a trap within a trap
May 06, 2008 |
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A University of Michigan professor has taken a step toward simulating a type of matter found in the crusts of neutron stars, in the cores of gas giant planets, and in exotic plasmas thought to be present in the earliest universe.
New light trap captures larval stage of new species; DNA barcode technology used
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Oct 23, 2007 |
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When David Jones, a fisheries oceanographer at the Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies (CIMAS) located at the University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School, set out to design a better light trap to collect ...
Ultracold gas mimics ultrahot plasma
Feb 15, 2009 |
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Several years after Duke University researchers announced spectacular behavior of a low density ultracold gas cloud, researchers at Brookhaven National Laboratory have observed strikingly similar properties in a very hot ...
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