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Researchers peer into nanowires to measure dopant properties

(PhysOrg.com) -- Semiconductor nanowires -- tiny wires with a diameter as small as a few billionths of a meter — hold promise for devices of the future, both in technology like light-emitting diodes and in ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Apr 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Scientists spy Galfenol's inner beauty mark

(PhysOrg.com) -- The sonar on submarines may get far more sensitive ears in the near future thanks to a mysterious compound developed by the military. Developed over a decade ago, it took a collaboration of ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Mar 25, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (10) | comments 0

State-of-the-art electron microscope promises to aid major research advances

Arizona State University will be home to one of the world's most advanced electron microscopes, one that will enable researchers to do work essential to making significant advances in nanoscale aspects of solid state science ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Major step toward less energy loss in new electromagnetic materials

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Uppsala University have managed for the first time to measure magnetic properties in new materials quantitatively with the help of electron microscopy - with unparalleled precision. ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Mar 03, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 2

Researchers heat up gold to surprising effect: It gets harder not softer

Common sense tells us that when you heat something up it gets softer, but a team of researchers, led by University of Toronto chemistry and physics professor R.J. Dwayne Miller, has demonstrated the exact ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Jan 22, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 2