News tagged with opaque scattering
Physicists Transmit Light through Opaque Materials
Aug 18, 2008 |
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No matter how thick an opaque "scattering material" is, physicists have shown how to weave light through tiny open channels in the material, so that the light passes through on the other side.
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New Technique Makes Tissues Transparent
Jan 29, 2008 |
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If humans had see-through skin like a jellyfish, spotting disease like cancer would be a snap: Just look, and see a tumor form or grow.
Is random lasing possible with a cold atom cloud?
May 18, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Random lasing, Robin Kaiser tells PhysOrg.com, is like standard lasing, with a little bit of a twist: “You don’t know the direction the photons will go, as you do with a more standard laser. This is becaus ...
Scientists prove unconventional superconductivity in new iron arsenide compounds
Jan 09, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory used inelastic neutron scattering to show that superconductivity in a new family of iron arsenide superconductors cannot ...
Researchers fine-tune diffuse optical tomography for breast cancer screening
Oct 06, 2009 |
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Clemson University researchers in collaboration with researchers at the University of Bremen, Germany, are working to make the physical pain and discomfort of mammograms a thing of the past, while allowing for diagnostic ...
Atmospheric engineering scheme to combat global warming could diminish solar power
Apr 20, 2009 |
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A widely discussed "atmospheric engineering" scheme intended to combat global warming could have unanticipated consequences in reducing the effectiveness of certain kinds of solar power around the Earth, a new study has concluded. ...
New method could lead to narrower chip patterns
Apr 10, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at MIT have found a novel method for etching extremely narrow lines on a microchip, using a material that can be switched from transparent to opaque, and vice versa, just by exposing it to certain ...
New Japanese glasses bring tears to the eyes
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Oct 27, 2009 |
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The Japanese eyewear company behind Sarah Palin's designer glasses has come up with a high-tech solution for obsessive video-gamers and bookworms whose eyes dry out from lack of blinking.
Reverse Chemical Switching of a Ferroelectric Film
Feb 25, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Ferroelectric materials display a spontaneous electric polarization below the Curie temperature that can be reoriented, typically by applying an electric field. In this study, researchers ...
Spallation Neutron Source first of its kind to reach megawatt power (w/ Podcast)
Sep 28, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The Department of Energy's Spallation Neutron Source (SNS), already the world's most powerful facility for pulsed neutron scattering science, is now the first pulsed spallation neutron source ...
Making Hair Realistic in Computer Animation
Jul 19, 2006 |
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Poets and novelists often describe hair as "shining" or "shimmering." Dark hair has a "sheen"; blond hair "glows." All this comes about because of the complex scattering of incident light off of individual ...
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