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Extreme ultraviolet movies reveal inside story of complex materials

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new X-ray movie technique using extreme ultraviolet (XUV) pulses from Artemis (link opens in a new window), one of the world's most advanced lasers, could help unravel the mysteries of phenomena ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Oct 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Nanoscale nonlinear light source created

Not long after the development of the first laser in 1960 scientists discovered that shining a beam through certain crystals produced light of a different color; more specifically, it produced light of exactly ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Sep 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Scientists find new set of multiferroic materials

(PhysOrg.com) -- The trail to a new multiferroic started with the theories of a U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory scientist and ended with a multidisciplinary collaboration that created ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (2) | comments 1




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Standing trees better than burning ones for carbon neutrality

The search for alternatives to fossil fuels has prompted growing interest in the use of wood, harvested directly from forests, as a carbon-neutral energy source.

Space & Earth / Environment

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Nanomedicines on their way through the body

(Phys.org) -- Which pathways do nanomedicines take after they have been swallowed? Scientists find a recirculation pathway of polymeric micelles using multimodal nonlinear optical microscopy.

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created May 29, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Physicists turn to Maxwell’s equations for self-bending light

(Phys.org) -- Can light self-bend into an arc? Can shape-preserving optical beams truly bend along a circular path? A confident answer emerged in this week’s Physical Review Letters. Researchers at Israel’s Techni ...

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 21, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (30) | comments 27 | with audio podcast weblog

Scientists reveal inner workings of magnets, a finding that could lead to faster computers

(PhysOrg.com) -- Using the world’s fastest light source -- specialized X-ray lasers -- scientists at the University of Colorado Boulder and the National Institute of Standards and Technology have revealed the secret ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 15, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New chips, faster networks to improve phone audio

Smartphone owners can surf the Web, pay bills, watch videos, enjoy music and send email. But while their gadgets have been designed to handle increasing amounts of data, experts say, less attention has been paid to their ...

Technology / Telecom

created Mar 02, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Electron-detection breakthrough could unleash next-generation technologies

(PhysOrg.com) -- Physics researchers at the University of Kansas have discovered a new method of detecting electric currents based on a process called “second-harmonic generation,” similar to a radar gun for electrons ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 29, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Researchers at SLAC test collider closer to creating fully coherent X-rays

(PhysOrg.com) -- Many advanced laser technologies, such as laser spectroscopy, that use precise wavelengths of infrared, visible or ultraviolet laser light could benefit from using X-ray light as well. But ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Physicists create first 'frequency comb' to probe ultraviolet wavelengths

Physicists at JILA have created the first "frequency comb" in the extreme ultraviolet band of the spectrum, high-energy light less than 100 nanometers (nm) in wavelength. Laser-generated frequency combs are the most accurate ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

The next big step toward atom-specific dynamical chemistry

(PhysOrg.com) -- For Ali Belkacem of Berkeley Lab’s Chemical Sciences Division, “What is chemistry?” is not a rhetorical question.

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Jan 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Proposed experiment offers new way to generate macroscopic entanglement

(PhysOrg.com) -- In the development of quantum information processing, one of the key requirements is achieving quantum entanglement. But recently, physicists have been investigating other forms of quantum correlations besides ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Jan 05, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (20) | comments 2 | with audio podcast report


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