News tagged with nanometre
The world's smallest magnetic data storage unit
Scientists from IBM and the German Center for Free-Electron Laser Science (CFEL) have built the world's smallest magnetic data storage unit. It uses just twelve atoms per bit, the basic unit of information, ...
Jan 12, 2012 |
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Electromechanics also operates at the nanoscale
What limits the behaviour of a carbon nanotube? This is a question that many scientists are trying to answer. Physicists at University of Gothenburg, Sweden, have now shown that electromechanical principles ...
May 09, 2011 |
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Researchers discover new fluorescent silicon nanoparticles
Researchers in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Leicester have developed a new synthesis method, which has led them to the discovery of fluorescent silicon nanoparticles and may ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jun 30, 2009 |
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US firm investing billions in crisis-hit chip industry
Despite the economic slump that has battered the semiconductor business, a new player from the United States' Silicon Valley technology belt is investing billions of dollars in a bid to catch the next wave ...
Apr 09, 2009 |
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Transparent iron? For the first time, an experiment shows that atomic nuclei can become transparent
At the high-brilliance synchrotron light source PETRA III, a team of DESY scientists headed by Dr. Ralf Röhlsberger has succeeded in making atomic nuclei transparent with the help of X-ray light. At the ...
Feb 08, 2012 |
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Diamond light, brighter than the sun
It’s the size of five football pitches and generates light 10 billion times brighter than the sun. As the Diamond Light Source celebrates its tenth anniversary this year, Penny Bailey visits one of the ...
Feb 07, 2012 |
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Researchers move graphene electronics into 3D
In a paper published this week in Science, a Manchester team lead by Nobel laureates Professor Andre Geim and Professor Konstantin Novoselov has literally opened a third dimension in graphene research. Their ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Feb 02, 2012 |
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Weaving electronics into the fabric of our physical world
(PhysOrg.com) -- The integration of electronics with materials opens up a world of possibilities, the surface of which is just being scratched. Professor Arokia Nathan has joined the University to take up ...
Jan 24, 2012 |
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T-rays technology could help develop star trek-style hand-held medical scanners
Scientists have developed a new way to create electromagnetic Terahertz (THz) waves or T-rays - the technology behind full-body security scanners. The researchers behind the study, published recently in the journal Nature Ph ...
Jan 20, 2012 |
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Researchers light up Europe with LEDs
Novel light-source technology just got a big boost in Europe thanks to the OLED100.eu ('Organic LED (light-emitting diode) lighting in European dimensions') project which tackled the challenge to develop the ...
Jan 17, 2012 |
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Hydrogen advances graphene use
Physicists at Linköping University have shown that a dose of hydrogen or helium can render the "super material" graphene even more useful.
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jan 12, 2012 |
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New material for thermonuclear fusion reactors
Scientists at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Oxford University and the University of Michigan have joined efforts to develop new materials for thermonuclear fusion reactors. Their research focuses on characterization ...
Jan 09, 2012 |
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New insights into nanoparticles and dividing cells
(PhysOrg.com) -- What happens when living cells take up nanoparticles, those tiny entities that could offer new ways of delivering drugs into the body? A new study from researchers at UCD has tracked the progress of nanoparticles ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Dec 19, 2011 |
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Glass that cleans itself
Eyeglasses need never again to be cleaned, and dirty windscreens are a thing of the past! Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz and the Technical University Darmstadt are now ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Dec 07, 2011 |
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