News tagged with applied voltage

New 'soft' motor made from artificial muscles

The electrostatic motor, used more than 200 years ago by Benjamin Franklin to rotisserie a turkey, is making a comeback in a promising new design for motors that is light, soft, and operates without external electronic controllers.

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 15, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (9) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Light makes write for DNA information-storage device

Researchers have demonstrated a write-once-read-many-times information-storage device, made of DNA embedded with silver nanoparticles, that uses ultraviolet light to encode data.

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jan 05, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Certain doped-oxide ceramics resist Ohm's Law

For months, Anthony West could hardly believe what he and his colleagues were seeing in the lab -- or the only explanation for the unexpected phenomena that seemed to make sense.

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Sep 21, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (19) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Gallium nitride transistor could replace silicon

(PhysOrg.com) -- A Cornell researcher has created an extremely efficient transistor made from gallium nitride, which may soon replace silicon as king of semiconductors for power applications.

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (38) | comments 6

High-speed signal mixer demonstrates capabilities of transistor laser

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the University of Illinois have successfully demonstrated a microwave signal mixer made from a tunnel-junction transistor laser. Development of the device brings researchers ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The Future Is 3-D Liquid Crystals

(PhysOrg.com) -- Dr. Tim Wilkinson from the Department's Photonics Research Group, University of Cambridge, has made an exciting breakthrough, he has combined liquid crystals with vertically grown carbon nanotubes ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Jan 15, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (16) | comments 6