News tagged with experimental device

Quantum mechanics enables perfectly secure cloud computing

Researchers have succeeded in combining the power of quantum computing with the security of quantum cryptography and have shown that perfectly secure cloud computing can be achieved using the principles of ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Jan 19, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (15) | comments 13 | with audio podcast

New biosensor is based on a nanowire crystal array

(PhysOrg.com) -- A quick, inexpensive and highly sensitive test that identifies disease markers or other molecules in low-concentration solutions could be the result of a Cornell-developed nanomechanical biosensor, ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Dec 09, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New metamaterial allows transmission gain while retaining negative refraction property

A new type of active metamaterial that incorporates semiconductor devices into conventional metamaterial structures is demonstrating an ability to have power gain while retaining its negative refraction property, a first ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Nov 09, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Lightwave electronics at sharp metal tips

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics control for the first time the emission of electrons from metal tips with femtosecond lasers alone.

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Jul 07, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Nanoscale waveguide for future photonics

The creation of a new quasiparticle called the "hybrid plasmon polariton" may throw open the doors to integrated photonic circuits and optical computing for the 21st century. Researchers with the U.S. Department ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created May 31, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Device connected to tongue designed to help blind perceive images

An experimental device that uses the tongue instead of the eyes to "see" could be on the market next year, and a blind Fresno, Calif., teen hopes to be among the first to take one home.

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 0