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Lead-on-Silicon Growth Over Time

Nanoscale materials grow with the flow (Videos)

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Feb 12, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Imagine unloading a pile of bricks onto the ground and watching the bricks assemble themselves into a level, straight wall in only a few minutes. While merely a fantasy for builders in the everyday world, ...





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Researchers Design Triple Quantum Dot for Quantum Information Applications

Researchers Design Triple Quantum Dot for Quantum Information Applications

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (17) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- While quantum dots have existed since the 1980s, only in the past decade have physicists successfully created lateral few-electron single quantum dots. These quantum dots enable physicists ...


Single-atom transistor discovered

Scientists build 'single-atom transistor'

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created 15 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (22) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from Helsinki University of Technology (Finland), University of New South Wales (Australia), and University of Melbourne (Australia) have succeeded in building a working transistor, ...


Laser-cooling brings large object near absolute zero

Super-cool work could expose quantum behavior

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 05, 2007 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (29) | comments 0

Using a laser-cooling technique that could one day allow scientists to observe quantum behavior in large objects, MIT researchers have cooled a coin-sized object to within one degree of absolute zero.


Physicists Explain How Human Eyes Can Detect Quantum Effects

Physicists Explain How Human Eyes Can Detect Quantum Effects

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Sep 29, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (46) | comments 19

(PhysOrg.com) -- By greatly amplifying one photon from an entangled photon pair, physicists have theoretically shown that human eyes can be used as detectors to observe quantum effects. Usually, detecting ...


Effects of 'strong coupling' observed for the first time between light and a micromechanical object

Effects of 'strong coupling' observed for the first time between light and a micromechanical object

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Aug 06, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (17) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists at the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI) in Vienna and Innsbruck, Austria, have created an interaction between light and a micromechanical resonator that ...


Researchers identify pressure effects on nanomaterials

Researchers identify pressure effects on nanomaterials

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created May 08, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (12) | comments 1

Transistors, lasers and solar-energy conversion devices may be easier to manipulate because of recent research by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scientists. The researchers defined the role high pressure ...


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Proving an aspect of the AB effect: when Newton's Third Law doesn't work

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 04, 2007 | popularity 4 / 5 (96) | comments 13

An action doesn’t always result in a reaction.


Current theories can't explain observed spin segregation

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 16, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (79) | comments 10

(PhysOrg.com) -- Experiments with quantum systems sometimes yield surprising results. This is exactly what happened when John Thomas, a researcher at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina found out when he and his post ...


A New Hybrid Atom

Unknown molecule opens the door to quantum computing

Technology / Semiconductors

created Jun 27, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (83) | comments 15

The odd behavior of a molecule in an experimental silicon computer chip has led to a discovery that opens the door to quantum computing in semiconductors.


All-in-1 nanoparticle: A Swiss Army knife for nanomedicine

All-in-one nanoparticle: A Swiss Army knife for nanomedicine

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jul 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Nanoparticles are being developed to perform a wide range of medical uses - imaging tumors, carrying drugs, delivering pulses of heat. Rather than settling for just one of these, researchers at the University ...



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