News tagged with frequency range

Beyond the looking glass...

While the researchers can't promise delivery to a parallel universe or a school for wizards, books like Pullman's Dark Materials and JK Rowling's Harry Potter are steps closer to reality now that researchers ...

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 13, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (16) | comments 6

Key mechanism in the brain's computation of sound location identified

New York University researchers have identified a mechanism the brain uses to help process sound localization. Their findings, which appear in the latest edition of the journal PLoS Biology, focus on how the brain comput ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jun 29, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Breakthrough for photons in the microwave frequency range

Photons in the microwave frequency range are important in quantum research - for quantum information processors, for example. Now, for the first time, researchers have achieved the controlled production of ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Feb 22, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Measurement of 'hot' electrons could have solar energy payoff

(PhysOrg.com) -- Basic scientific curiosity paid off in unexpected ways when Rice University researchers investigating the fundamental physics of nanomaterials discovered a new technology that could dramatically ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 05, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers develop first silicon wafer-scale 110 GHz phased array transmitter

(PhysOrg.com) -- TowerJazz, the global specialty foundry leader, and The University of California, San Diego, provider of a leading program in microwave, millimeter-wave and mixed-signal RFICs, today announced ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Apr 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Using imprint processing to mass-produce tiny antennas could improve wireless electronics

(PhysOrg.com) -- Engineering researchers at the University of Michigan have found a way to mass-produce antennas so small that they approach the fundamental minimum size limit for their bandwidth, or data ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jul 06, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

ZigBee would allow remote use of home electronics

You probably have a mobile phone with a Bluetooth radio in it, and you may have a Wi-Fi network as well. Soon, you could be using a third wireless networking technology in your house.

Technology / Telecom

created Mar 31, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Two for one: Radio chip and sensor combine to measure weather

RFID technology is on the advance. But, up to now radio chips primarily supply data for the identification of products. Researchers have now developed a transponder which measures temperature, pressure and ...

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 01, 2010 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0