News tagged with diffraction imaging

3-D, after-the-fact focus image sensors invented

(PhysOrg.com) -- At the heart of digital photography is a chip called an image sensor that captures a map of the intensity of the light as it comes through the lens and converts it to an electronic signal.

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 03, 2012 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Physicists develop 3D metamaterial nanolens that achieves super-resolution imaging

(PhysOrg.com) -- A research team from Northeastern University has developed a new nanolens that can beat the diffraction limit to achieve so-called super-resolution imaging, better than can be achieved by current technology. ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 18, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (24) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Novel Superlens Offers a Simplified Subwavelength Imaging Technique

(PhysOrg.com) -- Since the first demonstrations of subwavelength imaging just a few years ago, scientists have been making great improvements, developing a variety of new methods for realizing high-resolution imaging. Recently, ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created May 11, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (16) | comments 1 weblog

New imaging technique reveals the atomic structure of nanocrystals

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new imaging technique developed by researchers at the University of Illinois overcomes the limit of diffraction and can reveal the atomic structure of a single nanocrystal with a resolution ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Feb 18, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (11) | comments 0




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Arctic bacteria help in the search to find life on moon Europa

In a fjord in Canada scientists have found a landscape similar to one of Jupiter's icy moons: Europa. It consists of a frozen and sulphurous environment, where sulphur associated with Arctic bacteria offer ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

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First direct observation of oriented attachment in nanocrystal growth

Berkeley Lab researchers have reported the first direct observation of nanoparticles undergoing oriented attachment, the critical step in biomineralization and the growth of nanocrystals. A better understanding ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 24, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

A magnetic approach to lattices

(Phys.org) -- JQI experimentalists under the direction of Ian Spielman are in the business of using lasers to create novel environments for neutral atoms. For instance, this research group previously enticed ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 22, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

How to make a splash

(Phys.org) -- A team of physicists has used the high-energy x-rays of the Advanced Photon Source (APS) at Argonne National Laboratory to penetrate the everyday mystery of a splash, revealing previously hidden ...

Physics / Soft Matter

created May 09, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New technique uses electrons to map nanoparticle atomic structures

With dimensions measuring billionths of a meter, nanoparticles are way too small to see with the naked eye. Yet it is becoming possible for today's scientists not only to see them, but also to look inside at how the atoms ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 04, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Defects make catalysts perfect

There is now one less mystery in chemical production plants. For many decades industry has been producing methanol on a large scale from a mixture of carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide, as well as hydrogen. ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Apr 26, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Beyond Tupac -- the future of hologram technology

Last week the world watched on as a supposed hologram of the late rapper Tupac Shakur performed at the Coachella music festival in California.

Technology / Other

created Apr 26, 2012 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Compressed sensing allows super-resolution microscopy imaging of live cell structures

(Phys.org) -- Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology and University of California San Francisco have advanced scientists’ ability to view a clear picture of a single cellular structure in ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Apr 23, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

UWM discovery advances graphene-based electronics

(Phys.org) -- Scientists and engineers at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) have discovered an entirely new carbon-based material that is synthesized from the “wonder kid” of the carbon ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Apr 16, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (9) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Single molecules in a quantum movie

The quantum physics of massive particles has intrigued physicists for more than 80 years, since it predicts that even complex particles can exhibit wave-like behaviour – in conflict with our everyday ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Mar 25, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (9) | comments 1 | with audio podcast


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