News tagged with free electron

Energy dissipation from vibrating gold nanoparticle strongly influenced by surrounding environment

Metal nanoparticles could play a key role in next-generation light detectors, optical circuits, and cancer therapies. For these future technologies to be realized, it is important to understand what happens ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Apr 12, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Research explores applications for new field of electronics

(PhysOrg.com) -- By looking at the way electrons are excited, researchers can gain a better understanding of the new field of transparent electronics.

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 07, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Biochip measures glucose in saliva, not blood

For the 26 million Americans with diabetes, drawing blood is the most prevalent way to check glucose levels. It is invasive and at least minimally painful. Researchers at Brown University are working on a ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jan 23, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers uncover transparency limits on transparent conducting oxides

Researchers in the Computational Materials Group at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) have uncovered the fundamental limits on optical transparency in the class of materials known as transparent ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Jan 18, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

World's best metronome enables slow-motion pictures of atoms and molecules

(PhysOrg.com) -- The world's most accurate metronome keeps stroke to an incredible 10 quintillionth of a second. The device enables slow-motion pictures from the world of molecules and atoms, scientists from the Center for ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Jan 17, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Ore. senator, others cited by digital-rights group

(AP) -- An Oregon senator who was behind a 1996 federal law that has made content-sharing services such as YouTube and Facebook possible is among three recipients of Pioneer Awards from a leading digital-rights group.

Technology / Other

created Nov 01, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Bright lights, small systems: Molecular differentiation using free-electron lasers

(PhysOrg.com) -- Double-core-hole (DCH) states – in which two electrons are ejected from their positions, creating vacancies – occurring at different atomic sites are very sensitive to the chemical ...

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 28, 2011 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast feature

Extremely strong coupling superconductivity of heavy-electrons in two-dimensions

The ultimately strong electron-electron interaction in metal is realized in the so-called heavy-fermion compound containing rare earth elements, in which the electron effective mass is enhanced by a few hundred ...

Physics / Superconductivity

created Oct 17, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 5

Nanobelts support manipulation of light

(PhysOrg.com) -- They look like 2-by-4s, but the materials being created in a Rice University lab are more suited to construction with light.

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 14, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

New laser could treat acne with telecom technology

(PhysOrg.com) -- A laser developed at the University of Michigan is designed to melt fat without burning surrounding tissue. It could potentially be used to treat acne, researchers say.

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Aug 31, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Coherent diffractive imaging in living color

(PhysOrg.com) -- Exactly 150 years after the first color photograph was produced, scientists have devised a way of employing the full spectrum of colors from synchrotron and free-electron laser x radiation ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Aug 11, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Vessel to contain cosmic force takes shape

At the heart of most celestial objects is a dynamo. The Earth's dynamo, spun to life in the molten metal core of our planet, generates a magnetic field that helps us find north and, perhaps more critically, ...

Physics / Plasma Physics

created Jul 21, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 4

First X-ray lasing of SACLA

RIKEN and the Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute (JASRI) have successfully produced a first beam of X-ray laser light with a wavelength of 1.2 Angstroms. This light was created using SACLA, a cutting-edge X-ray ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Jun 17, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

SACLA X-ray free electron laser sets new record

RIKEN and the Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute (JASRI) have successfully produced a beam of X-ray laser light with a wavelength of 1.2 Angstroms, the shortest ever measured. This record-breaking light was created ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Jun 13, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New research improves quality of free electron laser

The free electron laser is the next step in the development of equipment to help us see the structure of materials. Nino Čutić at MAX-lab in Lund, Sweden, has done a PhD in further improving the test free electron ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Jun 02, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0