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Surface science goes inorganic

A collaboration between researchers at Northwestern University's Center for Catalysis and scientists at Oxford University has produced a new approach for understanding surfaces, particularly metal oxide surfaces, widely used ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Feb 16, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Nano-ruler sets some very small marks

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has issued a new ruler, and even for an organization that routinely deals in superlatives, it sets some records. Designed to be the most accurate commercially available "meter ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Sep 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Capturing images in non-traditional way may benefit AF

New research in imaging may lead to advancements for the Air Force in data encryption and wide-area photography with high resolution.

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 14, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0




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LG Display will release HD panel for smartphones

(Phys.org) -- LG Display is getting ready to showcase a five-inch smartphone display that turns out to be a full HD LCD panel supporting up to 1080p video, something like having a high-quality TV in your hand. ...

Electronics / Hardware

created May 29, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 9 | with audio podcast report

An unlikely route to ferroelectricity

(Phys.org) -- Ferroelectricity, which was first observed in the 1940s, is an interesting phenomenon involving the spontaneous (non-induced) formation of charge polarization (separation of charge) in certain ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created May 18, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

The new world of gamma-ray optics

Scientists discover that certain materials like silicon or gold exhibit a surprisingly large refractive index for extremely high energetic gamma-rays.

Physics / Condensed Matter

created May 14, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Conquering LED efficiency droop

WASHINGTON, April 30--Like a coffee enthusiast who struggles to get a buzz from that third cup of morning joe, light-emitting diodes (LEDs) seem to reach a point where more electricity no longer imparts the ...

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 30, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (10) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Physicists benchmark quantum simulator with hundreds of qubits

Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have built a quantum simulator that can engineer interactions among hundreds of quantum bits (qubits) -- 10 times more than previous devices. ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Apr 25, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

First atomic-scale real-time movies of platinum nanocrystal growth in liquids

They won't be coming soon to a multiplex near you, but movies showing the growth of platinum nanocrystals at the atomic-scale in real-time have blockbuster potential. A team of scientists with the Lawrence ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Apr 19, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

CODITA: measuring the cosmic dust swept up by the Earth

Although we think of space as being empty, there is more out there than meets the eye – dust, for example, is everywhere. If all the material between the Sun and Jupiter were compressed together it would ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Mar 30, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 3

To boldly go where no glass has gone before

QUT's first foray into space is bound to be a giant step for mankind. Dr Martin Castillo from Queensland University of Technology's (QUT) Science and Engineering Faculty, and researcher for the university's ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Mar 30, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 0

'Quantum criticality': Ultracold experiments heat up quantum research

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Chicago physicists have experimentally demonstrated for the first time that atoms chilled to temperatures near absolute zero may behave like seemingly unrelated natural systems ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Mar 18, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (9) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Solved: The mystery of the nanoscale crop circles

(PhysOrg.com) -- Almost three years ago a team of scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) was performing an experiment in which layers of gold mere ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Mar 02, 2012 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (10) | comments 4 | with audio podcast


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