News tagged with infrared properties

Probing hydrogen under extreme conditions

(Phys.org) -- How hydrogen--the most abundant element in the cosmos--responds to extremes of pressure and temperature is one of the major challenges in modern physical science. Moreover, knowledge gleaned ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Apr 13, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

New WISE mission catalog of entire infrared sky released

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA unveiled a new atlas and catalog of the entire infrared sky today showing more than a half billion stars, galaxies and other objects captured by the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Mar 15, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Shaken, not heated: The ideal recipe for manipulating magnetism

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have found a way to distort the atomic arrangement and change the magnetic properties of an important class of electronic materials with ultra-short pulses of terahertz (mid-infrared) ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Breakthrough furnace can cut solar costs

(PhysOrg.com) -- Solar cells, the heart of the photovoltaic industry, must be tested for mechanical strength, oxidized, annealed, purified, diffused, etched, and layered.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Oct 25, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 11 | with audio podcast

Seeing below the surface: New way to inspect advanced materials used to build airplanes

In recent years, many airplane manufacturers have started building their planes from advanced composite materials, which consist of high-strength fibers, such as carbon or glass, embedded in a plastic or metal ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Mar 24, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Forcing mismatched elements together could yield better solar cells

(PhysOrg.com) -- In what could be a step toward higher efficiency solar cells, an international team including University of Michigan professors has invalidated the most commonly used model to explain the behavior of a unique ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Sep 08, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (12) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Biomedical Researchers Develop Device to Predict Wound Healing

(PhysOrg.com) -- The new device can change the current landscape of chronic wound management.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created May 25, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Infrared Nanotube Films Offer Advantages for Solar Cells and More

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have already known that carbon nanotube thin films have mechanical and conductive advantages that could make them useful as electrodes in solar cells, solid state lighting, and ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Mar 11, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 0 feature