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Creating light sources for nanochips

(PhysOrg.com) -- "One of the most important goals in the optics community is to create and manipulate light on chip," Yinan Zhang tells PhysOrg.com. "This is especially important when it comes to improving the performance of sem ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Aug 25, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (9) | comments 0 | with audio podcast feature

Scientists break light modulation speed record -- twice

Researchers have constructed a light-emitting transistor that has set a new record with a signal-processing modulation speed of 4.3 gigahertz, breaking the previous record of 1.7 gigahertz held by a light-emitting diode.

Physics / General Physics

created Jun 15, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (9) | comments 0




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Optics get magnetic powers

For decades, scientists have studied a class of materials called ‘multiferroics’ in which static electric and magnetic structures are coupled to each other. This allows capabilities such as controlling ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 03, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Making nature's best better to produce biofuels

If a tree falls in the forest and there are no enzymes to digest it, does it break down?

Biology / Biotechnology

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Sun delivered curveball of powerful radiation at Earth

A potent follow-up solar flare, which occurred Friday (Jan. 17, 2012), just days after the Sun launched the biggest coronal mass ejection (CME) seen in nearly a decade, delivered a powerful radiation punch ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Heart failure is associated with loss of brain cells and a decline in mental processes

Australian researchers have found evidence that heart failure is associated with a decline in people's mental processes and a loss of grey matter in the brain. These changes can make it more difficult for ...

Medicine & Health / Cardiology

created Jan 31, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Project to improve radiotherapy planning

A collaborative project between physicists, oncologists and computer scientists at Oxford and Cambridge Universities, launched last month, will develop improved tools for the planning of high precision radiotherapy. ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

High-power, 532 nm-wavelength compact green laser module with high efficiency, high-speed modulation capability

QD Laser, Inc., the Institute for Nano Quantum Information Electronics, the University of Tokyo, and Fujitsu Laboratories Limited today announced the successful development of a high-power 532 nm-wavelength ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jan 19, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Mysterious flotsam in Gulf of Mexico came from Deepwater Horizon rig, study finds

Shortly after the Deepwater Horizon disaster, mysterious honeycomb material was found floating in the Gulf of Mexico and along coastal beaches. Using state-of-the-art chemical forensics and a bit of old-fashioned detective ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jan 19, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Zebrafish may help speed drug discovery

Tiny zebrafish just may give scientists one solution to information overload in the search for new drugs therapies.

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jan 17, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

NASA Goddard spacecraft cleanroom goes green

When it launches in 2014, NASA's new Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission will give scientists unprecedented insights into a little-understood physical process at the heart all space weather. This process, ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 14, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Austin lab team rolls out Kinect-controlled skateboard

(PhysOrg.com) -- An Austin, Texas, team has developed an electric skateboard that makes use of Microsoft’s Kinect and a Samsung tablet running Windows 8 to go places on a piece of transport dubbed The ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Jan 10, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 5 | with audio podcast report


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