News tagged with diffraction pattern

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

First-ever images of atoms moving in a molecule captured

Using a new ultrafast camera, researchers have recorded the first real-time image of two atoms vibrating in a molecule.

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 07, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (22) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Fastest X-ray images of tiny biological crystals

(PhysOrg.com) -- An international research team headed by DESY scientists from the Center for Free-Electron Laser Science (CFEL) in Hamburg, Germany, has recorded the shortest X-ray exposure of a protein crystal ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 05, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 5

Diamonds and dust for better cement

(PhysOrg.com) -- It's no surprise that humans the world over use more water, by volume, than any other material. But in second place, at over 17 billion tons consumed each year, comes concrete made with Portland ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Dec 12, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Launch of fourth LCLS instrument reveals crisp, fine molecular detail

The first set of user experiments with the Linac Coherent Light Source's newest instrument is under way, and about 40 researchers are working very long hours this week to decipher the structures of proteins ...

Physics / General Physics

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

Experiment reaches biology milestone with hard X-ray laser

Unraveling the molecular basis of life is an age-old quest of humanity. A breakthrough towards this goal was reported in a pair of studies published Feb. 3 in the scientific journal Nature, detailing a new ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Feb 02, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Nobel prize winner unveils the World's largest diffraction pattern

During a visit to Diamond Light Source, the UK’s national synchrotron science facility, on Friday 9th July, Prof. Venki Ramakrishnan, winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, unveiled the World’s largest ...

Chemistry / Other

created Jul 13, 2010 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Squeezing Information from Materials under Extreme Pressure

(PhysOrg.com) -- By compressing tiny amounts of material between two diamond anvils, scientists have for more than three decades been able to achieve pressures of over 1 million atmospheres. The physical changes ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created May 31, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (9) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

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

Introducing the Light Touch interactive projector (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- UK-based company Light Blue Optics has introduced an extremely compact projector that converts any flat surface into an interactive touch video screen.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Jan 11, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (23) | comments 2 | with audio podcast report

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