News tagged with super atoms
Super atoms turn the periodic table upside down
Jul 01, 2008 |
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Researchers at Delft University of Technology in The Netherlands have developed a technique for generating atom clusters made from silver and other metals. Surprisingly enough, these so-called super atoms ...
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German scientists produce first Bose-Einstein condensate with calcium atoms
Sep 22, 2009 |
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Physicists at the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (Germany) have succeeded in producing a Bose-Einstein condensate from the alkaline earth element calcium. The use of alkaline earth atoms creates new ...
From graphene to graphane, now the possibilities are endless
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jul 31, 2009 |
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Ever since graphene was discovered in 2004, this one-atom thick, super strong, carbon-based electrical conductor has been billed as a "wonder material" that some physicists think could one day replace silicon ...
Physicists create first atomic-scale map of quantum dots
Sep 29, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Michigan physicists have created the first atomic-scale maps of quantum dots, a major step toward the goal of producing "designer dots" that can be tailored for specific applications.
Scientists design new super-hard material
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Apr 20, 2007 |
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Ultra-hard materials are used for everything from drills that bore for oil and build new roads to scratch-resistant coatings for precision instruments and the face of your watch.
If it wiggles, it must be jellyfish swimming -- or atoms moving in glass
Jul 03, 2007 |
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The scientist who first compared the movements of atoms in glass to the wiggling of jellyfish in water has won the top award in the field of glass science.
Current theories can't explain observed spin segregation
Oct 16, 2008 |
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(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 ...
Physicists slow and control supersonic helium beam
Mar 08, 2007 |
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The speed of a beam of helium atoms can be controlled and slowed using an "atomic paddle" much as a tennis player uses a racquet to control tennis balls, physicists at The University of Texas at Austin have discovered.
Physicists discover 'super crystals' in a semiconductor
Aug 16, 2007 |
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University of Arizona physicists have discovered that "super crystals" -- crystals which are hundreds to thousands times larger than conventional crystals -- exist in certain organic semiconducting solids.
Staggering atoms sober up in physics detox cell
May 04, 2006 |
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Using an entirely new technology, a research team from Umeå University in Sweden has succeeded in controlling and converting energy from the random movement of atoms. “You could say that we have found a detox cell where drunken ...
Physicists Turn to Radio Dial for Finer Atomic Matchmaking
Oct 20, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Investigating mysterious data in ultracold gases of rubidium atoms, scientists at the Joint Quantum Institute of the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University of Maryland ...
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