News tagged with electron stimulated luminescence

Company Claims ESLs to be the Future of Light Bulbs (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- While compact fluorescent lights (CFLs) are currently the primary alternative to incandescent light bulbs, a company from Seattle predicts that its own novel light bulbs will eventually replace ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

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Sandia paper on flat-panel displays is one of Applied Physics Letters' 50 greatest hits

A paper by Sandia National Laboratories researchers with implications for early flat panel televisions is one of the 50 most cited papers from the prestigious journal Applied Physics Letters in the last 50 years, ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 07, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Physicists control light scattering in graphene

Scientists at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California, Berkeley have learned to control the quantum pathways determining how light scatters in graphene. Controlled ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Mar 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

How 'random' lasers work

When University of Utah scientists discovered a new kind of laser that was generated by an electrically conducting plastic or polymer, no one could explain how it worked and some doubted it was real. Now, ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 24, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (11) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Trading carats for nanometers - and defective diamonds for crystal clear microscopy

(PhysOrg.com) -- Large, perfect diamonds are precious to almost all of us but to some scientists, it is the defects that really matter. This is because defects can form nanoscopic color centers, which play ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Mar 02, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

‘High Q’ Nanowires May be Practical Oscillators

Nanowires grown at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have a mechanical “quality factor” at least 10 times higher than reported values for other nanoscale devices such as carbon nanotubes, ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Nov 27, 2007 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (22) | comments 0

Connect the Quantum Dots

A new study, published today in the current issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has significant implications for the design of disease markers and the development of chemoreceptors used in human biomedical ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jul 18, 2006 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (14) | comments 0

Gold 'glitters' in new ways at the nanoscale

May lead to new computer chips, network switches Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have found that gold "shines" in a different way at the nanoscale, and the insights may lead to ...

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created Jan 04, 2006 | popularity 4 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Ice Age clues unearthed from construction hole

Long before the finishing touches are made to UW-Madison's Microbial Sciences Building, a small but significant bit of science has emerged from the hole where the $120 million, 330,000 square-foot structure is emerging.

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created Jan 04, 2006 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (14) | comments 0

Quantum dots that produce white light could be the light bulb's successor

Take an LED that produces intense, blue light. Coat it with a thin layer of special microscopic beads called quantum dots. And you have what could become the successor to the venerable light bulb. The res ...

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created Oct 20, 2005 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (37) | comments 0


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