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New plasma transistor could create sharper displays

New plasma transistor could create sharper displays

Physics / Plasma Physics

created Feb 04, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (9) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- By integrating a solid-state electron emitter and a microcavity plasma device, researchers at the University of Illinois have created a plasma transistor that could be used to make lighter, ...


K-State physics lab becoming a frontrunner in ultrafast laser research

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 28, 2008 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0

For decades, the J.R. Macdonald Laboratory at Kansas State University has been known worldwide as a center for atomic collision physics using particle accelerators. Now, researchers at the lab are working toward making it ...





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Making monster waves

Making monster waves

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Rogue waves -- giant waves that spring up suddenly and tower over the seas around them—have inspired physicists to look for an analogue in light. These high-intensity pulses can cross large distances without ...


Time Lens

Time Lens Speeds Up Optical Data Transmission

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Sep 28, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (15) | comments 7

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Cornell University have developed a device called a "time lens" which is a silicon device for speeding up optical data. The basic components of this device are an optical-fiber ...


Nanophotonic devices could revolutionize the telecommunications industry

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Sep 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

This year's Julius Springer Prize for Applied Physics will be awarded to Professor Motoichi Ohtsu for his pioneering and seminal work on nanophotonics and near field optics as well as for the development of innovative nanophotonic ...


Research looks at how light and matter behave around black holes, other celestial objects

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 22, 2009 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (5) | comments 5

Dr. Dentcho Genov, an assistant professor of physics and electrical engineering at Louisiana Tech University and a Louisiana Optical Network Initiative (LONI) Institute fellow, is featured in the most recent issue of Nature Ph ...


Nanotechnology gets a new light touch

Nanotechnology gets a new light touch

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 02, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Building the super-fast computers of the future has just become much easier thanks to an advance by Australian researchers that lets them grab hold of tiny electronics components and probe ...


Green light from Silicon

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Apr 15, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (15) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of St Andrews have made a surprise discovery that the material at the heart of the microelectronics industry can emit green light.


Louisiana Tech professor's 'metamaterials' research lands cover of international journal

'Metamaterials' used to look at effects of black holes, other celestial objects

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Sep 10, 2009 | popularity 3.1 / 5 (9) | comments 11

(PhysOrg.com) -- Dr. Dentcho Genov, an assistant professor of physics and electrical engineering at Louisiana Tech University and a Louisiana Optical Network Initiative (LONI) Institute fellow, is featured ...


Physicists Propose New Ultracold Scheme for Scalable Quantum Information Processing

Physicists Propose New Ultracold Scheme for Scalable Quantum Information Processing

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Jun 03, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (14) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Since 1994, when Peter Shor famously showed that a quantum computer could factor large numbers exponentially faster than any current classical algorithm, physicists have been investigating ...


Light at the speed of a bicycle and much more

Light at the speed of a bicycle and much more

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Sep 09, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (11) | comments 6

The speed of light, 300 million metres per second, was long thought an immutable constant and has defined our understanding of matter and energy but recent research in the area of optics and photonics is proving ...


Quantum gas microscope offers glimpse of quirky ultracold atoms

Quantum gas microscope offers glimpse of quirky ultracold atoms

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (19) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists at Harvard University have created a quantum gas microscope that can be used to observe single atoms at temperatures so low the particles follow the rules of quantum mechanics, ...



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