News tagged with vacuum tube
Researcher: Cell phones could double as night vision devices
(PhysOrg.com) -- Call it Nitelite: The newest app for cell phones might be night vision.
May 04, 2010 |
4.6 / 5 (14) |
10
|
Startup to develop new solid-state technology at UCLA for use in medical imaging
While today many medical-imaging needs are being met with traditional vacuum tube-based technology, large segments of the X-ray-imaging market are poorly served, and there is widespread demand for both performance improvements ...
Apr 02, 2010 |
5 / 5 (1) |
0
CT with Nanotubes for People and Baggage Scans
Researchers from Siemens are investigating the use of small, fast X-ray sources based on nanotubes.
Feb 02, 2010 |
not rated yet |
0
Collection Provides Supply for Taxonomical Rescues
(PhysOrg.com) -- The Agricultural Research Service maintains some of the world's largest publicly accessible collections of microbes that are used to benefit agricultural sciences. But some smaller ARS collections ...
Jan 25, 2010 |
not rated yet |
0
Accelerators and Light Sources of Tomorrow (Part 1: From Linacs to Lasers)
From their humble beginnings as offshoots of the ordinary electric light bulb, particle accelerators have evolved in surprising directions. Among the most productive and promising developments have been light ...
Dec 22, 2009 |
4.8 / 5 (8) |
2
Crashing the size barrier
Like surfers on monster waves, electrons can ride waves of plasma to very high energies in a very short distance. Scientists have proven that plasma acceleration works. Now they're developing it as a way to ...
Nov 18, 2009 |
4.5 / 5 (16) |
6
New AFOSR magnetron may help defeat enemy electronics
Researchers funded by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research at the University of Michigan invented a new type of magnetron that may be used to defeat enemy electronics. A magnetron is type of vacuum ...
Sep 16, 2009 |
5 / 5 (3) |
0
Using Nanotubes in Computer Chips
(PhysOrg.com) -- MIT materials scientists have developed a new technique for growing carbon nanotubes that could replace the vertical wires in chips, permitting denser packing of circuits.
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Sep 10, 2009 |
5 / 5 (3) |
3
The Ultimate Long Distance Communication
Anyone who's vacationed in the mountains or lived on a farm knows that it's hard to get good internet access or a strong cell phone signal in a remote area. Communicating across great distances has always ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 19, 2009 |
4.3 / 5 (21) |
11
Teeny-tiny X-ray vision
The tubes that power X-ray machines are shrinking, improving the clarity and detail of their Superman-like vision. A team of nanomaterial scientists, medical physicists, and cancer biologists at the University of North Carolina ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jul 28, 2009 |
5 / 5 (4) |
0
Physicist takes a quantum leap
(PhysOrg.com) -- A University of Queensland physicist is seeking answers to a persistent problem throughout human history: how do I compute things? None, however, have had the same impact as what we today know as simply the ...
Jul 06, 2009 |
4.3 / 5 (7) |
2
