News tagged with electron orbit

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

Direct measurement of the formation length of photons

How long does it take an electron to form a photon? The answer would normally be: so short a time that it cannot be measured. However, the international CERN team responsible for experiment NA63 -- mainly staffed by physicists ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 28, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Dawn team members check out spacecraft

(PhysOrg.com) -- Mission managers for NASA's Dawn spacecraft are studying the spacecraft's ion propulsion system after Dawn experienced a loss of thrust on June 27. Dawn team members were able to trace the ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jul 08, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

NRL instrument provides key space weather data

Data products from the Special Sensor Ultraviolet Limb Imager (SSULI) developed by the NRL Spacecraft Engineering Department and Space Science Division were officially transitioned for use in operational systems ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jun 22, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Iron-pnictide electron orbital pairing promises higher-temperature superconductors

(PhysOrg.com) -- The quest to develop a so-called room-temperature superconductor – one that exhibits lossless electronic transmission – has long fueled both popular and scientific imagination. At ...

Physics / Superconductivity

created May 17, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 9 | with audio podcast feature

Manipulating molecules for a new breed of electronics

(PhysOrg.com) -- In research appearing in today’s issue of the journal Nature Nanotechnology, Nongjian “NJ” Tao, a researcher at the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University, has demons ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Feb 20, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (10) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

New structure could produce efficient semiconductor laser sources

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers have achieved a nanoscale laser structure they anticipate will produce semiconductor lasers in the next two years that are more than twice as efficient ...

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Scientists cool gas by laser bombardment

Three decades ago, American and Finnish scientists came up with a very powerful method for cooling gases by "laser bombardment." Only now were physicists at the University of Bonn able to demonstrate that it actually works. ...

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 6

Odyssey Flight Team to Check Status of Backup System

(PhysOrg.com) -- The team operating NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter plans a procedure next week to address a long-known, potential vulnerability of accumulated memory corruption.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Mar 04, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0