A cheap, compact technique for analyzing samples at infrared wavelengths using visible-wavelength components could revolutionize medical and material testing.
Optics & Photonics
Nov 1, 2018
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University of Michigan researchers have refined a gas-sniffing device so that it can detect poisonous gases and explosives in less than half a second.
Optics & Photonics
Oct 23, 2018
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The prevalence of electronic devices has transformed life in the 21st century. At the heart of these devices is the movement of electrons across materials. Scientists today continue to discover new ways to manipulate and ...
General Physics
Sep 26, 2018
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A new instrument lets researchers use multiple laser beams and a microscope to trap and move cells and then analyze them in real-time with a sensitive analysis technique known as Raman spectroscopy. The instrument could allow ...
Optics & Photonics
Sep 12, 2018
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How water solvates and transports protons is a fundamental question facing chemists and biologists alike and is vital to our understanding of processes such as photosynthesis and cellular respiration.
Materials Science
Aug 10, 2018
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Sizes and shapes of nuclei with more than 100 protons were so far experimentally inaccessible. Laser spectroscopy is an established technique in measuring fundamental properties of exotic atoms and their nuclei. For the first ...
General Physics
Jun 27, 2018
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The ability to harness light into an intense beam of monochromatic radiation in a laser has revolutionized the way we live and work for more than fifty years. Among its many applications are ultrafast and high-capacity data ...
Optics & Photonics
Apr 27, 2018
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Researchers from the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences have demonstrated, using a super-resolution microscopic technique, how to follow chemical reactions taking place in very small volumes. ...
Materials Science
Feb 12, 2018
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Today, it is standard practice to detect many diseases through MRIs, PETs, X-rays, or CAT scans. But all of these medical imaging methods include some risk of radiation and take hours - if not days - to get results. Most ...
Materials Science
Jan 24, 2018
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It was one of the breakthroughs of the year 2010: Laser spectroscopy of muonic hydrogen resulted in a value for the proton charge radius that was significantly smaller, by four standard deviations, than previous determinations ...
General Physics
Oct 6, 2017
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