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Toward cheaper imaging systems for identifying concealed weapons on the human body

Technology / Semiconductors

created Jun 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Electrical engineers from UC San Diego have created high-performance W-Band silicon-germanium (SiGe) radio frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) for passive millimeter-wave imaging. This advance could lead to significantly ...





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Company Introduces Novel Nanotechnology for Revolutionizing Imaging Using T-rays

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Yissum Research Development Company of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem today announced that Professor L.D. Shvartsman and Professor B. Laikhtman, from the Racah Institute of Physics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, ...


Terahertz imaging goes the distance

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 26, 2007 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (15) | comments 0

Terahertz (THz) radiation, or far-infrared light, is potentially very useful for security applications, as it can penetrate clothing and other materials to provide images of concealed weapons, drugs, or other objects. However, ...


New technology makes 3-D imaging quicker, easier

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 17, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (14) | comments 0

Technology invented by scientists from The Johns Hopkins University and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev can make three-dimensional imaging quicker, easier, less expensive and more accurate, the researchers said.


Small bit of a CMOS chip holds 2-D through-the-walls radar imager

Technology / Engineering

created Feb 04, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (15) | comments 0

Two researchers from the USC Viterbi School of Engineering have created a send/receive chip that functions as an active array, sending out a matrix of 49 simultaneous ultrawideband radar probe beams and picking up the returned ...


Liquids and Gels

Menace in a bottle: Detecting liquid explosives

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 02, 2007 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

After the plot to blow up trans-Atlantic airlines with liquid explosives was uncovered in London in August 2006, there has been pressure on the airline industry, and Homeland Security, to find new ways to ...


Single-pixel camera has multiple futures: Terahertz version adds new potential to unique invention

Single-pixel camera has multiple futures: Terahertz version adds new potential to unique invention

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 14, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (73) | comments 0

A terahertz version of the single-pixel camera developed by Rice University researchers could lead to breakthrough technologies in security, telecom, signal processing and medicine.


CSIRO designs world’s best mm-wave chips for communications and security

Technology / Semiconductors

created Apr 12, 2007 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Millimetre-wave chip design is a highly specialised area – and recent work at CSIRO has reinforced its world-leading position in a field where a few microns can mean the difference between success and failure.


Scientists develop world’s smallest diamond transistor

Scientists develop world's smallest diamond transistor

Technology / Semiconductors

created Apr 14, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (12) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the University of Glasgow have developed the world’s smallest diamond transistor.


Shoe scanner set to make travel safer

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 20, 2008 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- An engineer at the University of Manchester has developed a prototype scanner that could be used to detect explosives and weapons hidden in the shoes of travellers.


CT: The first-line imaging choice of physicians for the diagnosis of pulmonary embolism

Medicine & Health / Other

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Computed tomography (CT), a highly accurate, readily available medical imaging technique, is the overwhelmingly preferred technique of emergency physicians and radiologists for the diagnosis of pulmonary embolism (PE), according ...



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