News tagged with cryogenic electron emission

Cryogenic electron emission phenomenon has no known physics explanation

(PhysOrg.com) -- At very cold temperatures, in the absence of light, a photomultiplier will spontaneously emit single electrons. The phenomenon, which is called "cryogenic electron emission," was first observed ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 10, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (38) | comments 56 | with audio podcast feature




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Researchers realize high-power, narrowband terahertz source at room temperature

Researchers at Northwestern University have developed a simpler way to generate single-chip terahertz radiation, a discovery that could soon allow for more rapid security screening, border protection, high sensitivity biological/chemical ...

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 30, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Scientists view a quantum jump in real time

(PhysOrg.com) -- For more than two decades, scientists have been "watching" electrons in atoms make the jump between energy levels in real time. "Atoms have energy levels, and when electrons 'jump' from one level to another, ...

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 11, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (29) | comments 3 | with audio podcast feature

Engineers take plasmon lasers out of deep freeze

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have developed a new technique that allows plasmon lasers to operate at room temperature, overcoming a major barrier to practical utilization ...

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 20, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (15) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

Engineers Demo Smallest Room Temperature Laser

(PhysOrg.com) -- Imagine packing 4 billion nanolasers on a three-inch semiconductor wafer. That is now nearer to reality, thanks to researchers at the University of California, San Diego’s Jacobs School of ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created May 03, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (18) | comments 0

Physicist finds colder isn't always slower as electron emissions increase at temps to -452 F

(PhysOrg.com) -- Science is detective work so it was not unexpected that new questions would follow old ones as Indiana University Bloomington nuclear physicist Hans-Otto Meyer's work progressed on testing ...

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created Apr 28, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (10) | comments 14 | with audio podcast

JQI researchers create entangled photons from quantum dots

To exploit the quantum world to the fullest, a key commodity is entanglement—the spooky, distance-defying link that can form between objects such as atoms even when they are completely shielded from one another. Now, physicists ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (8) | comments 1

Scientists make single-photon sources brighter

Scientists have achieved a major advance in developing a single-photon light source, bringing quantum applications such as quantum computing and quantum cryptography closer to reality.

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 12, 2007 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (72) | comments 5 feature

What light from yonder neutron breaks?

Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology and four universities have made the first experimental observation of rare particles of light emitted during the radioactive decay of the ...

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created Dec 20, 2006 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (26) | comments 0

Nanoscale electron island could lead to new efficient flat-panel displays

UW-Madison Electrical and Computer Engineering Associate Professor Robert Blick and colleagues in Germany have demonstrated a new nanoscale mechanism for field emission that could lead to a new type of energy ...

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created Jan 18, 2005 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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