News tagged with microwave antenna

Novel holographic antenna designs and uses

Holographic antennas first studied around 40 years ago are again a hot topic given the potential of holographic images for a variety of applications. EU researchers developed novel prototype devices based ...

Technology / Engineering

created May 30, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers develop first silicon wafer-scale 110 GHz phased array transmitter

(PhysOrg.com) -- TowerJazz, the global specialty foundry leader, and The University of California, San Diego, provider of a leading program in microwave, millimeter-wave and mixed-signal RFICs, today announced ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Apr 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

The Ultimate Long Distance Communication

Anyone who's vacationed in the mountains or lived on a farm knows that it's hard to get good internet access or a strong cell phone signal in a remote area. Communicating across great distances has always ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Aug 19, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (21) | comments 11

Putting the squeeze on an old material could lead to 'instant on' electronic memory

(PhysOrg.com) -- The technology of storing electronic information - from old cassette tapes to shiny laptop computers - has been a major force in the electronics industry for decades.

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 16, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (12) | comments 1




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Space probes will be more useful with new amplifiers

Researchers at Chalmers have developed a new generation of amplifiers, which the European Space Agency (ESA) will be using throughout the world to receive signals from its space probes and satellites. ESA ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Apr 26, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array: Famous radio telescope officially gets new name

Astronomers and officials from around the globe gathered on the high desert of New Mexico Saturday to officially bestow a new name on the world's most famous radio telescope and to mark its transformation ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Apr 03, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

New design for a metamaterial could be far more efficient at capturing sunlight than existing solar cells

Metamaterials are a new class of artificial substances with properties unlike anything found in the natural world. Some have been designed to act as invisibility cloaks; others as superlenses, antenna systems ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Mar 09, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (20) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Toward a global microwave standard

Much of what is known about decadal climate change – and much of what appears on the evening weather forecast as well – comes from satellite-based remote sensing of microwave radiation at different ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Iconic telescope renamed to honor founder of radio astronomy

(PhysOrg.com) -- The world's most famous radio telescope will become the "Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array" to honor the founder of radio astronomy, the study of the Universe via radio waves naturally emitted ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 11, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Study resolves century-long debate over how to describe electromagnetic momentum density in matter

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from the NIST Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology and the University of British Columbia have shown that the interaction between a light pulse and a light-absorbing object, including the ...

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 29, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (14) | comments 23 | with audio podcast

Bouncing signals off ceiling can rev up data centers

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have a startlingly upbeat idea for data center managers coping with packed rooms, Internet traffic bursts, and high costs looming in having to reconfigure data center designs. ...

Technology / Telecom

created Dec 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 14 | with audio podcast report

IAA says 'Yes We Can' to power plants in orbit

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists from around the world have completed a study that says harvesting the sun's energy in space can turn out to be a cost effective way of delivering the world’s needs for power ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Nov 15, 2011 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (28) | comments 93 | with audio podcast report

Terahertz boost detection

Swissto12 -- an EPFL spin-off -- could help boost the performance of detection systems and create new antennas for mobile telephony and on-board satellite systems thanks to an innovative transmission system ...

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 15, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New metamaterial allows transmission gain while retaining negative refraction property

A new type of active metamaterial that incorporates semiconductor devices into conventional metamaterial structures is demonstrating an ability to have power gain while retaining its negative refraction property, a first ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Nov 09, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast


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