News tagged with chemical vapour deposition

Shear stiffness and friction mechanics of single-layer graphene measured for the first time

Researchers from the University of Bristol have measured and identified for the first time the stress and strain shear modulus and internal friction of graphene sheets. Graphene is a material that has many ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Feb 14, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Singapore researchers invent broadband graphene polarizer

Researchers at the National University of Singapore have invented a graphene-based polarizer that can broaden the bandwidth of prevailing optical fiber-based telecommunication systems.

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Jun 06, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Light-activated antibacterial coating is new weapon in fight against hospital-acquired infections

A new hard coating with antibacterial properties that has been tested by researchers at the UCL Eastman Dental Institute has been shown to kill 99.9% of Escherichia coli bacteria when a white hospital light was shone on its ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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Instant nanodots grow on silicon to form sensing array

Scientists have shown that it is now possible to simultaneously create highly reproductive three-dimensional silicon oxide nanodots on micrometric scale silicon films in only a few seconds. Xavier Landreau and his colleagues ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Dec 02, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Golden touch makes low-temperature graphene production a reality

(PhysOrg.com) -- A method which more than halves the temperature at which high-quality graphene can be produced has been pioneered by researchers.

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Oct 12, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (30) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

It's a wrap! Nanowire opens gate to new devices

(PhysOrg.com) -- In an interesting feat of nanoscale engineering, researchers at Lund University in Sweden and the University of New South Wales have made the first nanowire transistor featuring a concentric ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Apr 07, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (10) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

New technique enables much faster production of inexpensive solar cells

Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands has demonstrated that the speed at which inexpensive solar cells are produced can be increased by a factor of ten – and that this can be achieved without any detriment ...

Technology / Engineering

created Mar 17, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Made to order diamonds hold key to stunning laser discoveries

(PhysOrg.com) -- Diamond is best known for being a prized gem and the hardest cutting element available, but now thanks to research being carried out at Macquarie University it is also proving to be a super ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Apr 22, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (26) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Scientists develop world's smallest diamond transistor

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the University of Glasgow have developed the world’s smallest diamond transistor.

Technology / Semiconductors

created Apr 14, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (12) | comments 3

Bit of bling adds new dimension to laser beam technology

(PhysOrg.com) -- No longer just an expensive ornament, diamonds are now of a sufficient size and quality to attract the eye of a team of physicists at Macquarie University, who are using them to develop a ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Dec 11, 2008 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (21) | comments 11

Birth of a new ocean

(PhysOrg.com) -- In a remote part of northern Ethiopia, the Earth’s crust is being stretched to breaking point, providing geologists with a unique opportunity to watch the birth of what may eventually become ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 31, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (69) | comments 5

Nanotube production leaps from sooty mess in test tube to ready formed chemical microsensors

Carbon nanotubes’ potential as a super material is blighted by the fact that when first made they often take the form of an unprepossessing pile of sooty black mess in the bottom of a test tube. Now researchers ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created May 06, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (24) | comments 0

Britain’s biggest meteorite impact found

Evidence of the biggest meteorite ever to hit the British Isles has been found by scientists from the University of Aberdeen and the University of Oxford.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Mar 26, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (13) | comments 0


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