News tagged with oscilloscope

Physicists develop unique new calibration tool for radio frequencies

A scientist from the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) has helped Fluke Precision Measurement to prove the effectiveness of a unique new tool for calibrating radio frequency (RF) devices.

Technology / Engineering

created Jun 22, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Picosecond Oscilloscope

An oscilloscope is a device for displaying signals that are too fast to be seen by the human eye. Typically the signal consists of a voltage level that changes quickly moment by moment (over millisecond to nanosecond timescales). ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created May 26, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0




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The perfect clone: Researchers hack RFID smartcards

Professional safecrackers use a stethoscope to find the correct combination by listening to the clicks of the lock. Researchers at the Ruhr-University Bochum have now demonstrated how to bypass the security mechanisms of ...

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 03, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Jump in communication skills led to species explosion in electric fishes

(PhysOrg.com) -- Bruce Carlson stands next to a fish tank in his lab, holding a putty colored Radio Shack amplifier connected to two wires whose insulation has been stripped. At the bottom of the tank a nondescript ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Apr 28, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Google replants its garage roots in tech workshops

Amid all the free food and other goodies that come with a job at Google Inc., there's one benefit a lot of employees don't even know about: a cluster of high-tech workshops that have become a tinkerer's paradise.

Technology / Other

created Apr 26, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 4

Physicists measure current-induced torque in nonvolatile magnetic memory devices

(PhysOrg.com) -- Tomorrow's nonvolatile memory devices – computer memory that can retain stored information even when not powered – will profoundly change electronics, and Cornell University researchers ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 09, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Computer memory takes a spin: Physicists read data after storing them in atomic nuclei for 112 seconds

University of Utah physicists stored information for 112 seconds in what may become the world's tiniest computer memory: magnetic "spins" in the centers or nuclei of atoms. Then the physicists retrieved and ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Dec 16, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (18) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

NPL recreates original fission experiment

National Physical Laboratory helped a BBC/Open University production crew recreate Otto Frisch's famous fission experiment from the 1930s.

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 12, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Engineering and Music: A Powerful Duet for Art and Science

An engineer with a love of music, and a musician who likes technology, Mark Bocko and Dave Headlam are both professors at the University of Rochester. For more than ten years their collaboration has been moving both fields ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Aug 16, 2010 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Nanoscale DNA sequencing could spur revolution in personal health care

In experiments with potentially broad health care implications, a research team led by a University of Washington physicist has devised a method that works at a very small scale to sequence DNA quickly and relatively inexpensively.

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Aug 16, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (14) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Graphene transistor could advance nanodevices

(PhysOrg.com) -- For years, scientists and researchers have been looking into the properties of carbon nanotubes and graphene for use in nanoelectronics. "There is no real mass application of devices based ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 11, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (21) | comments 5 | with audio podcast feature

Researchers Using Science To Decode the Secrets of Olympic Skeleton Sliding

(PhysOrg.com) -- Olympic skeleton athletes will hit the ice next month in Vancouver, where one-hundredths of a second can dictate the difference between victory and defeat.

Technology / Engineering

created Feb 03, 2010 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast


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