News tagged with diffuse light
X-ray discovery points to location of missing matter
Using observations with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA's XMM-Newton, astronomers have announced a robust detection of a vast reservoir of intergalactic gas about 400 million light years from Earth. ...
May 11, 2010 |
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Astrophysicists discover new heating source in cosmological structure formation
(Phys.org) -- So far, astrophysicists thought that super-massive black holes can only influence their immediate surroundings. A collaboration of scientists at the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies ...
May 15, 2012 |
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Solar concentrator increases collection with less loss
(PhysOrg.com) -- Converting sunlight into electricity is not economically attractive because of the high cost of solar cells, but a recent, purely optical approach to improving luminescent solar concentrators ...
Nov 02, 2011 |
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Diffused light control can project in fully lit room
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the Uchida Research Laboratory at Tohoku University, have created a high visibility projector screen that works on the principle of Diffused Light Control (DLC). The long and ...
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
Apr 20, 2011 |
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Blue light specials: New materials boost efficiency of blue OLEDs by 25 percent
Lighting consumes one-fifth of the electricity generated in the United States. Solid-state lighting offers tremendous potential to improve the situation - once major research challenges are overcome.
Mar 22, 2009 |
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Pollution dims skies as well as befouling the air
A University of Maryland-led team has compiled the first decades-long database of aerosol measurements over land, making possible new research into how air pollution changes affect climate change.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 12, 2009 |
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