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LG Display will release HD panel for smartphones

(Phys.org) -- LG Display is getting ready to showcase a five-inch smartphone display that turns out to be a full HD LCD panel supporting up to 1080p video, something like having a high-quality TV in your hand. ...

Electronics / Hardware

created May 29, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 10 | with audio podcast report

Researchers develop technique to keep cool high-power semiconductor devices used in wireless applications, electric cars

A group of researchers at the University of California, Riverside Bourns College of Engineering have developed a technique to keep cool a semiconductor material used in everything from traffic lights to electric cars.

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 08, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists predict an out-of-this-world kind of ice

(PhysOrg.com) -- Cornell scientists are boldly going where no water molecule has gone before -- that is, when it comes to pressures found nowhere on Earth.

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Jan 17, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (19) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

EU to build most powerful laser ever in Prague

(PhysOrg.com) -- As part of the European Union's commitment to remaining at the forefront of technology, the European Commission (the governing body of the European Union) has laid out plans for three initial ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Apr 28, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 13 | with audio podcast report

Putting the squeeze on planets outside our solar system

(PhysOrg.com) -- Using high-powered lasers, scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and collaborators discovered that molten magnesium silicate undergoes a phase change in the liquid state, abruptly ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Feb 10, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (9) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Laser Phosphor Display (LPD) television - it's all done with mirrors

(PhysOrg.com) -- Californian company Prysm has unveiled a high definition television with a "laser phosphor display" based on their patented method of using lasers reflected off a bank of mirrors to excite pixels on the television screen in a similar way to cathode ray tubes. ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Jun 24, 2010 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (14) | comments 11 | with audio podcast report

Researchers at NIF moving closer to fusion ignition point

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the U.S. National Ignition Facility (NIF) report that they are growing ever closer to reaching the ignition point with their laser generated nuclear fusion project. The facility, ...

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 13, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (29) | comments 88 | with audio podcast weblog

Wind turbines that learn like humans

Depending on the weather, wind turbines can face whispering breezes or gale-force gusts. Such variable conditions make extracting the maximum power from the turbines a tricky control problem, but a collaboration of Chinese ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Mar 27, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 16 | with audio podcast

Researcher Uses Graphene Quilts to Keep Things Cool

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of California, Riverside Professor of Electrical Engineering and Chair of Materials Science and Engineering Alexander Balandin is leading several projects to explore ways to use ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Dec 21, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (22) | comments 1

Japanese Team Tokai wins the 3,021 km 2011 Veolia World Solar Challenge

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Japanese Tokai University Solar Car Team has won the Veolia World Solar Challenge, a 3,021 kilometer race between tiny cars relying on mostly solar power. Running between Darwin, a remote ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Oct 21, 2011 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 32 | with audio podcast report

Fukushima lesson: Prepare for unanticipated nuclear accidents

A year after the crisis at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, scientists and engineers remain largely in the dark when it comes to fundamental knowledge about how nuclear fuels behave under extreme conditions, ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

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300-dpi: Epson, E-ink give ePaper a resolution boost

(PhysOrg.com) -- For the most part when we think about E-Ink technology high resolution are not the words that come to mind. We all love our e-readers, such as the Nook and the Kindle, because they give us ...

Electronics / Hardware

created May 18, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast weblog

Magnesium: Alternative Power Source

(PhysOrg.com) -- There is enough magnesium to meet the world's energy needs for the next 300,000 years, says Dr. Takashi Yabe of the Tokyo Institute of Technology.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Apr 23, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (40) | comments 29 | with audio podcast weblog

New technique boosts high-power potential for gallium nitride electronics

Gallium nitride (GaN) material holds promise for emerging high-power devices that are more energy efficient than existing technologies – but these GaN devices traditionally break down when exposed to ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Feb 02, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New superconductor research may solve key problem in physics

Binghamton University physicist Michael Lawler and his colleagues have made a breakthrough that could lead to advances in superconductors. Their findings will be published this week in the prestigious British journal Nature.

Physics / Superconductivity

created Jul 14, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (21) | comments 0 | with audio podcast