News tagged with electrical dipole

Physicists find charge separation in a molecule consisting of two identical atoms

Physicists from the University of Stuttgart show the first experimental proof of a molecule consisting of two identical atoms that exhibits a permanent electric dipole moment. This observation contradicts ...

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 25, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (22) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Beam line 13 fuels discovery fever for fundamental physicists

(PhysOrg.com) -- The simplest, most sensible "Big Bang" universe, theoretical physicists believe, would be one in which equal numbers of particles and antiparticles are formed in pairs. As the universe cools, ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jun 24, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Data storage takes an electric turn

(PhysOrg.com) -- German scientists from the Forschungszentrum Julich and the Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics in Halle have discovered the basis for the next generation of memory devices. In ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 29, 2011 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (7) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

New family of liquid crystals created

(PhysOrg.com) -- Chemists at Vanderbilt University have created a new class of liquid crystals with unique electrical properties that could improve the performance of digital displays used on everything from ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Oct 05, 2010 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers seeking the fourth property of electrons

Do electrons have a fourth property in addition to mass, charge and spin, as popular physics theories such as supersymmetry predict? Researchers from Germany, the Czech Republic and the USA want to find the ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 20, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (38) | comments 28 | with audio podcast

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 ...

Physics / General Physics

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