News tagged with metallic films
Taking the Stress Out of Magnetic Field Detection
Jan 28, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have discovered that a carefully built magnetic sandwich that interleaves layers of a magnetic alloy with a few nanometers ...
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Measurements from the edge: magnetic properties of thin films
Sep 28, 2007 |
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Materials researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, together with colleagues from IBM and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, have pushed the measurement of thin films to the ...
Terahertz Waves Are Effective Probes for IC Heat Barriers
May 06, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- By modifying a commonly used commercial infrared spectrometer to allow operation at long-wave terahertz frequencies, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology discovered ...
Pinning Down Superconductivity to a Single Layer
Oct 29, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Using precision techniques for making superconducting thin films layer-by-layer, physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have identified a single layer ...
Carbon nanotubes made into conductive, flexible 'stained glass'
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Apr 09, 2008 |
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Carbon nanotubes are promising materials for many high-technology applications due to their exceptional mechanical, thermal, chemical, optical and electrical properties.
Researchers develop thin films showing promise for solar applications
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Sep 08, 2009 |
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Researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev have developed thin films that exhibit carrier multiplication (CM). This development is of great interest for future solar cells.
On the path to metallic hydrogen
Aug 03, 2009 |
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Hydrogen, the most common element in the universe, is normally an insulating gas, but at high pressures it may turn into a superconductor. Now, scientists at the Carnegie Institution in Washington D.C., US, ...
Paperwork: Buckypapers Clarify Electrical, Optical Behavior of Nanotubes
Oct 15, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Using highly uniform samples of carbon nanotubes—sorted by centrifuge for length—materials scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have made some of the most precise ...
Bio-enabled, surface-mediated approach produces nanoparticle composites
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Aug 19, 2009 |
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Using thin films of silk as templates, researchers have incorporated inorganic nanoparticles that join with the silk to form strong and flexible composite structures that have unusual optical and mechanical ...
Organic Molecules Stay on Top
Nov 19, 2007 |
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The van der Waals force, a weak attractive force, is solely responsible for binding certain organic molecules to metallic surfaces. In a model for organic devices, it is this force alone that binds an organic film to a metallic ...
Quantum Criticality Found in a Simple Liquid
Sep 07, 2007 |
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A team from the Low Temperature Laboratory, Royal Holloway, University of London, has discovered a breakdown of the standard theoretical model of strongly interacting fermions in liquid 3He films.
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