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Novel technique shrinks size of nanotechnology circuitry

(PhysOrg.com) -- A University of Colorado at Boulder team has developed a new method of shrinking the size of circuitry used in nanotechnology devices like computer chips and solar cells by using two separate colors of light.

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Apr 16, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (12) | comments 1




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For diabetics, spectroscopy may replace painful pinpricks

Part of managing diabetes involves piercing a finger several times daily to monitor blood sugar levels. Raman spectroscopy could let diabetics monitor glucose without those daily pinpricks. In the past, this would have required ...

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 25, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Micro-explosion reveals new super-dense aluminium

(PhysOrg.com) -- Although materials scientists have theorized for years that a form of super-dense aluminum exists under the extreme pressures found inside a planet’s core, no one had ever actually seen ...

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 24, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (18) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

Stamping out low cost nanodevices

(PhysOrg.com) -- A simple technique for stamping patterns invisible to the human eye onto a special class of nanomaterials provides a new, cost-effective way to produce novel devices in areas ranging from ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 31, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Simulating tomorrow's accelerators at near the speed of light

(PhysOrg.com) -- As conventional accelerators like CERN's Large Hadron Collider grow ever more vast and expensive, the best hope for the high-energy machines of the future may lie in "tabletop" accelerators ...

Physics / Plasma Physics

created Mar 18, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (13) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Dutch researchers build affordable alternative to mega-laser X-FEL

Stanford University in the USA has an X-FEL (X-ray Free Electron Laser) with a pricetag of hundreds of millions. It provides images of 'molecules in action', using a kilometer-long electron accelerator. Dutch ...

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 22, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Study describes a tabletop source of bright, coherent X-rays

Producing tightly focused beams of high energy X-rays, to examine everything from molecular structures to the integrity of aircraft wings, could become simpler and cheaper according to new research.

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 24, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (14) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Physicists to discuss largest parity violation, other adventures in table-top physics

(PhysOrg.com) -- Exploring the fundamental laws of physics has often required huge accelerators and particles colliding at high energies. But table-top experiments, usually employing exquisitely tuned lasers and sensitive ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Oct 19, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Gravity up close: Looking for extra dimensions by measuring gravity at the microscopic level

Scientists know how gravity works at big distances -- the inter-planetary or inter-stellar range -- but does it work the same way at the inter-atomic range?

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 13, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (30) | comments 23 | with audio podcast

Google tests cars that can steer without drivers

Google Inc. is road-testing cars that steer, stop and start without a human driver, the company says.

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 10, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (23) | comments 25

Experiment tests underpinnings of quantum field theory, Bose-Einstein statistics of photons

(PhysOrg.com) -- Of all the assumptions underlying quantum mechanics and the theory that describes how particles interact at the most elementary level, perhaps the most basic is that particles are either ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Jun 25, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (25) | comments 45 | with audio podcast


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