News tagged with atomic electrons
Researchers image atomic structural changes that control properties of sapphires
Materials scientists from Case Western Reserve University and the Institute of Solid State Research in Julich, Germany have produced particularly clear changes in the atomic structure of sapphire following deformation at ...
Nov 25, 2010 |
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Damaging graphene to create a band gap
(PhysOrg.com) -- "Graphene offers a lot of interesting potential applications for nanoelectronics," Florian Banhart tells PhysOrg.com, "but there is no band gap. This is a well-known problem. Without the band gap, switch ...
Nov 22, 2010 |
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Bulky molecules trap boron compounds into a never-before-seen structural arrangement
When it comes to chemical bonding, boron has a reputation for being unconventional. While covalent bonds are usually formed by sharing two electrons between two atoms, some compounds—including diboranes ...
Nov 19, 2010 |
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Antihydrogen trapped for first time (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- In the movie Angels and Demons, scientists have solved one of the most perplexing scientific problems: the capture and storage of antimatter. In real life, trapping atomic antimatter has never ...
Nov 17, 2010 |
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Electrons get confused: Researchers may have observed the fastest melting of all time
Scientists from Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) observed exotic behaviour from beryllium oxide (BeO) when they bombarded it with high-speed heavy ions: After being shot in this way, the electrons in the BeO ...
Nov 03, 2010 |
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Scientists investigate atomic-scale mechanisms of nanowire growth process
(PhysOrg.com) -- Nanowires can be grown in many ways, but one of the lesser-understood growth processes is vapor-liquid-solid (VLS) growth. In VLS, a vapor adsorbs onto a liquid droplet, and the droplet transports ...
Nov 01, 2010 |
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Direct laser cooling of molecules
Cooling molecules with lasers is harder than cooling individual atoms with lasers. The very process of laser cooling, in which atoms are buffeted by thousands of photons, was thought by many to be impossible for molecules ...
Oct 21, 2010 |
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Physicists observe electron ejected from atom for first time
Physicists at the University of California, Berkeley in collaboration with researchers from the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics and the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, became the ...
Oct 12, 2010 |
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Researchers discover a new class of highly electronegative chemical species
(PhysOrg.com) -- An international team of researchers has discovered a new class of highly electronegative chemical species called hyperhalogens, which use superhalogens as building blocks around a metal atom. The new chemical ...
Oct 08, 2010 |
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One-dimensional window on superconductivity, magnetism: Atoms are proxies for electrons in ultracold optical emulator
A Rice University-led team of physicists is reporting the first success in a three-year effort to build a precision simulator for superconductors using a grid of intersecting laser beams and ultracold atomic ...
Sep 29, 2010 |
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Single electron reader opens path for quantum computing
Researchers from University of New South Wales (Australia), University of Melbourne (Australia), and Aalto University (Finland) have succeeded in demonstrating a high-fidelity detection scheme for the magnetic ...
Sep 27, 2010 |
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Engineer shrinks 'U' logo
In an example of how a technology wonk displays school spirit, an engineer has created a golden University of Utah logo that is smaller than the width of an average human hair.
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Sep 17, 2010 |
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A closer look at ring opening: Electron diffraction studies of photoswitchable molecules
(PhysOrg.com) -- We use a switch to turn lights off and on; however, light can also act as a switch itself, for example when molecules change their structure upon irradiation. Photoswitchable molecules are ...
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Sep 09, 2010 |
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The perfect nanocube: Precise control of size, shape and composition
(PhysOrg.com) -- With growing interest in using nanoparticles for everything from antibacterial socks to medical imaging to electronic devices, the need to understand the environmental, health and safety risks ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Sep 01, 2010 |
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Turning down the noise in graphene
(PhysOrg.com) -- Graphene is a two-dimensional crystalline sheet of carbon atoms - meaning it is only one atom thick - through which electrons can race at nearly the speed of light - 100 times faster than ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Aug 06, 2010 |
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