News tagged with high frequency

Physicists mix two lasers to create light at many frequencies

A team of physicists at UC Santa Barbara has seen the light, and it comes in many different colors. By aiming high- and low-frequency laser beams at a semiconductor, the researchers caused electrons to be ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Mar 28, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (14) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

New generation of flexible graphene transistors

Making electronic components using graphene, a material composed of a single layer of carbon atoms, is one of today's major technological challenges. Researchers hope to harness the outstanding electron mobility ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Mar 15, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Navy launches new communications satellite

(AP) -- The Navy has launched a new communications satellite after two weather-related scrubs last week.

Technology / Telecom

created Feb 24, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

UN sets stage for blazing fast new mobile devices

(AP) -- A United Nations telecom meeting has approved the next generation of mobile technology, which experts say will make devices 500 times faster than 3G smartphones and eliminate the wait time between the tap of a finger ...

Technology / Telecom

created Jan 19, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Planck instrument loses its cool

(PhysOrg.com) -- After an impressive two and a half years of operation, Planck's High Frequency Instrument has finally exhausted its onboard coolant gases and reached the end of its very successful mission. ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 17, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (11) | comments 18 | with audio podcast

Graphene mixer can speed up future electronics

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden) have for the first time demonstrated a novel subharmonic graphene FET mixer at microwave frequencies. The mixer provides new opportunities in future ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jan 03, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Research focuses on implementing radio frequency MEMS resonators on a silicon chip

Semiconductor Research Corporation and Cornell University researchers are working to advance on-chip silicon development to enable new generations of smaller and more sophisticated mobile electronic devices.

Technology / Semiconductors

created Dec 06, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Monitoring food with millimeter waves

Has the packet been properly filled? Are there impurities in the chocolate? Have the plastic seams been welded correctly? Is there a knife hidden in the parcel? Answers to all these questions are provided ...

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 02, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Scientists hope to create robot strawberry pickers

Scientists at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL), the UK's Measurement Institute, have developed an imaging technology which can identify the ripeness of strawberries before they are picked. The developers ...

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 19, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

High temperature, high speed metal fatigue test device with 1000C heat resistance

A research group led by Dr. Yoshiyuki Furuya, a Senior Researcher of the Materials Reliability Unit, National Institute for Materials Science, succeeded in the development of a high temperature ultrasonic ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Sep 21, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Scientists discover new water waves

(PhysOrg.com) -- By precisely shaking a container of shallow water, researchers have observed wave behavior that has never been seen before. In a new study, Jean Rajchenbach, Alphonse Leroux, and Didier Clamond ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 19, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (20) | comments 26 | with audio podcast feature

DNA scan yields insights into Germany's E. coli bug

A strain of E. coli bacteria blamed for killing dozens of people in Germany is a genetic mix whose ability to stick to intestinal walls may have made it so lethal, a study in The Lancet said on Wednesday.

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Jun 23, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Dolphins use double sonar

Dolphins and porpoises use echolocation for hunting and orientation. By sending out high-frequency sound, known as ultrasound, dolphins can use the echoes to determine what type of object the sound beam has ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jun 07, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 11

NXP brings GaN technology mainstream

At IMS2011 this week, NXP Semiconductors N.V. is showcasing a live demo of its next-generation products based on Gallium Nitride (GaN) technology.

Technology / Semiconductors

created Jun 07, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

High-speed response hysteretic control DC-DC converter LSI series developed by Panasonic

Panasonic Corporation has successfully developed a new high-speed response hysteretic control DC-DC converter LSI series. The new LSI chips are well suited for applications which require fast load transient ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Dec 24, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1