News tagged with neutral atoms

MHI develops 12-inch wafer bonding machine capable of producing 3-D integrated LSI circuits at room temperature

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd (MHI) has developed the world's first fully automated 12-inch (300 millimeters) wafer bonding machine, dubbed the "Bond Meister MWB-12-ST," capable of producing 3-dimensionally integrated LSI ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Jan 16, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Eye on ionization: Visualizing and controlling bound electron dynamics in strong laser fields

(PhysOrg.com) -- Subatomic events can be remarkably counterintuitive. Such is the case in theoretical physics when, under certain specific conditions, atoms exposed to intense infrared laser pulses remain ...

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 19, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 3 | with audio podcast feature

Recalculating the distance to interstellar space

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists analyzing recent data from NASA's Voyager and Cassini spacecraft have calculated that Voyager 1 could cross over into the frontier of interstellar space at any time and much earlier ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jun 15, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (11) | comments 13 | with audio podcast

Black holes from the dawn of the universe

The "Dark Ages" of the universe started about 400,000 years after the big bang, after matter cooled down enough for neutral atoms to form.

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created May 09, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (9) | comments 29 | with audio podcast

FASTSAT Mission Update

The FASTSat Mini-Me and PISA instruments are successfully performing science observations as the TTI instrument continues sensor optimization.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Mar 14, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers realize a toolbox for open-system quantum simulation

(PhysOrg.com) -- Experimental physicists have put a lot of effort in isolating sensitive measurements from the disruptive influences of the environment. In an international first, Austrian quantum physicists ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Feb 23, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (10) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Catching space weather in the act

Close to the globe, Earth's magnetic field wraps around the planet like a gigantic spherical web, curving in to touch Earth at the poles. But this isn't true as you get further from the planet. As you move ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Feb 17, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Exciting atoms on the move: Fine-tuned laser light activates oxygen atoms to escape the surface

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new way to accelerate and remove oxygen atoms from thin films of calcium oxide has been discovered by a team of scientists from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, University College ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

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

Quantum quirk: Scientists pack atoms together to prevent collisions in atomic clock

In a paradox typical of the quantum world, JILA scientists have eliminated collisions between atoms in an atomic clock by packing the atoms closer together. The surprising discovery, described in the Feb. ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Feb 03, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Long distance, top secret messages

When the military needs to send the key to encrypted data across the world, it can't necessarily rely on today's communication lines, where the message could be covertly intercepted. But physicists at the Georgia Institute ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Oct 19, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New beam source for Brookhaven accelerators

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new source of ions will soon be the starting point for the beams entering two major research facilities at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory - the Relativistic ...

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 15, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists isolate, hold, photograph individual Rubidium 85 atom

(PhysOrg.com) -- In a major physics breakthrough, University of Otago scientists have developed a technique to consistently isolate and capture a fast-moving neutral atom - and have also seen and photographed ...

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 01, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (44) | comments 26 | with audio podcast

Knot in the ribbon at the edge of the solar system 'unties' (Update)

(PhysOrg.com) -- The unusual "knot" in the bright, narrow ribbon of neutral atoms emanating in from the boundary between our solar system and interstellar space appears to have "untied," according to a paper ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Sep 30, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (10) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Studying Matter and Radiation from the Early Universe

(PhysOrg.com) --Almost 400,000 years after the universe was created in the big bang, matter cooled sufficiently for neutral atoms to form, thereby allowing the pervasive light to propagate almost completely ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Apr 12, 2010 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Basic quantum computing circuit built

(PhysOrg.com) -- Exerting delicate control over a pair of atoms within a mere seven-millionths-of-a-second window of opportunity, physicists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison created an atomic circuit that may help quantum ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Feb 25, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (21) | comments 2 | with audio podcast