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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 (16) | 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 ...


Spin polarization achieved in room temperature silicon

Spin polarization achieved in room temperature silicon

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 27, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (18) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A group in The Netherlands has achieved a first: injection of spin-polarized electrons in silicon at room temperature. This has previously been observed only at extremely low temperatures, ...





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No Wheel Stall in Diagnostic Drive

Spirit Mars Rover: No Wheel Stall in Diagnostic Drive

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- On Sol 2095 (Tuesday, Nov. 24), Spirit performed a set of diagnostic actions related to a stall of the right-rear wheel on the previous drive, three days earlier.


Spinons -- confined like quarks

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 29, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (15) | comments 2

The concept of confinement is one of the central ideas in modern physics. The most famous example is that of quarks which bind together to form protons and neutrons. Now Prof. Bella Lake from Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (Germany) ...


Another Stall of Right-Rear Wheel Ends Drive

Rover Spirit: Another Stall of Right-Rear Wheel Ends Drive

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created 18 hours ago | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Spirit's right-rear wheel stalled again on Sol 2099 (Nov. 28, 2009) during the first step of a two-step extrication maneuver.


NASA Assessing New Roles for Ailing QuikScat Satellite

NASA Assessing New Roles for Ailing QuikScat Satellite

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA mission managers are assessing options for future operations of the venerable QuikScat satellite following the age-related failure of a mechanism that spins the scatterometer antenna. ...


Subaru Telescope Spots Strange Spin

Discovery of a Retrograde or Highly Tilted Extrasolar Planet

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 1

Astronomers have found that the extrasolar planet HAT-P-7b has a retrograde or highly tilted orbit. Studying such planets is important in understanding the diversity of planetary systems and assessing current ...


Rice ties in race for atomic-scale breakthrough

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Everybody loves a race to the wire, even when the result is a tie. The great irony is the ultraprecise clocks that could result from this competition could probably break any tie.


Researchers put a new spin on atomic musical chairs

Researchers put a new spin on atomic musical chairs

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created 21 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the Naval Research Laboratory have developed a new way to introduce magnetic impurities in a semiconductor crystal by prodding it with ...


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Nothing But Net: The Physics of Free-Throw Shooting

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Pay attention, Shaq: Two North Carolina State University engineers have figured out the best way to shoot a free throw - a frequently underappreciated skill that gets more important as the ...


NASA Uses Twin Processes to Develop New Tank Dome Technology

NASA Uses Twin Processes to Develop New Tank Dome Technology

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created 17 hours ago | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA has partnered with Lockheed Martin Space Systems in Denver, Colo., and MT Aerospace in Augsburg, Germany, to successfully manufacture the first full-scale friction stir welded and spun ...


Free Spirit: Third Extrication Drive Ends With Wheel Stall

Free Spirit: Third Extrication Drive Ends With Wheel Stall

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Spirit experienced a wheel stall with the right-rear wheel during the second step of a two-step drive on Sol 2092 (Saturday, Nov. 21). This is not the same wheel that stalled on Sol 1899 (May ...



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