News tagged with electron wave

New Digital 'Electronics' Concept May Continue Moore's Law

(PhysOrg.com) -- Computers of the future could be operating not on electrons, but on tiny waves traveling through an electron "fluid," if a new proposal is successful. The new circuit design, recently introduced ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (78) | comments 12 feature

Radio pulses from pulsar appear to move faster than light

(PhysOrg.com) -- Laboratory experiments in the last few decades have shown that some things can appear to move faster than light without contradicting Einstein's special theory of relativity, but now astrophysicists ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 14, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (56) | comments 76 | with audio podcast report

Article examines rare quantum physics effect

(PhysOrg.com) -- There's nothing University of Nebraska-Lincoln physicist Herman Batelaan likes more than a challenge. And there are few areas of science more challenging than working at the sub-atomic, or ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Sep 23, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (31) | comments 8

World's smallest semiconductor laser heralds new era in optical science

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have reached a new milestone in laser physics by creating the world's smallest semiconductor laser, capable of generating visible light ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Aug 30, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (25) | comments 1

A 50-year quest to isolate the thermoelectric effect is now over: Magnon drag unveiled

In a paper published in Nature Materials, a group of researchers at the Catalan Institute of Nanotechnology (ICN, Spain) led by Prof. Sergio O. Valenzuela reports the observation of the magnon drag. This w ...

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 18, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (24) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Nano-sized light mill drives micro-sized disk (w/ Video)

While those wonderful light sabers in the Star Wars films remain the figment of George Lucas' fertile imagination, light mills - rotary motors driven by light - that can power objects thousands of times greater ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 05, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (25) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

'Electron vortices' have the potential to increase conventional microscopes' capabilities

(PhysOrg.com) -- Electron microscopes are among the most widely used scientific and medical tools for studying and understanding a wide range of materials, from biological tissue to miniature magnetic devices, ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (21) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Shaking the Fundamentals of Physics: At the Limits of the Photoelectric Effect

With extremely short wavelengths and very high intensities, light-matter interaction seems to be different than previously accepted.

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 24, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (24) | comments 9

Plasmonic Promises: First Observation of Plasmarons in Graphene

(PhysOrg.com) -- The energy bands of complex particles known as plasmarons have been seen for the first time by scientists working with graphene at the Advanced Light Source. Their discovery may hasten the ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 20, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (21) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

NeuroSky lets gamers use their brains

NeuroSky wants gamers to start using their brains. The start-up that specializes in technology to measure brainwaves was at the Electronic Entertainment Expo here this week showing videogame titans how they ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Jun 19, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (20) | comments 7

Researchers revolutionize electron microscope

Researchers at the University of Sheffield have revolutionised the electron microscope by developing a new method which could create the highest resolution images ever seen.

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 05, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (19) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Researchers analyze the future of transistor-less magnonic logic circuits

(PhysOrg.com) -- As one of the newest research areas today, the field of magnonics is attracting researchers for many reasons, not the least being its possible role in the development of transistor-less logic ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jun 28, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (18) | comments 2 | with audio podcast feature

Physicists localize 3-D matter waves for first time (w/ video)

University of Illinois physicists have experimentally demonstrated for the first time how three-dimensional conduction is affected by the defects that plague materials. Understanding these effects is important ...

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 07, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (15) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Crashing the size barrier

Like surfers on monster waves, electrons can ride waves of plasma to very high energies in a very short distance. Scientists have proven that plasma acceleration works. Now they're developing it as a way to ...

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (16) | comments 6

Temporal coherence: Future laser technology reaches new era

Even as the Linac Coherent Light Source delivers X-rays with unprecedented power, marking a new era of X-ray science, a team of SLAC researchers is working to make such X-ray lasers even better. In a paper ...

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 13, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (16) | comments 0 | with audio podcast