News tagged with optical characterization

Scientists use laser imaging to assess safety of zinc oxide nanoparticles in sunscreen

Ultra-tiny zinc oxide (ZnO) particles with dimensions less than one-ten-millionth of a meter are among the ingredients list of some commercially available sunscreen products, raising concerns about whether ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Nov 30, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New nanolaser -- spaser -- key to future optical computers and technologies

(PhysOrg.com) -- Because the new device, called a "spaser," is the first of its kind to emit visible light, it represents a critical component for possible future technologies based on "nanophotonic" circuitry, ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Aug 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (23) | comments 2




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Unravelling the mystery of misfolding prions

(Phys.org) -- Researchers at the University of Alberta's physics department and the National Institute for Nanotechnology (NINT) are the first to map out the folding pathways of prions, malformed ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created May 30, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers find new properties of the carbon material graphene

Graphene has caused a lot of excitement among scientists since the extremely strong and thin carbon material was discovered in 2004. Just one atom thick, the honeycomb-shaped material has several remarkable ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created May 30, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (20) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Tiny planet-finding mirrors borrow from Webb Telescope playbook

NASA's next flagship mission — the James Webb Space Telescope — will carry the largest primary mirror ever deployed. This segmented behemoth will unfold to 21.3 feet in diameter once the observatory ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 24, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Novel probe for ultracold quantum matter developed

(Phys.org) -- In a paper published in the May 20, 2012 edition of the journal Nature Physics, a research group from the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Stony Brook University reports the development and de ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created May 23, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Desert dust intensifies summer rainfall in U.S. southwest

(Phys.org) -- Dust is more than something to be brushed off the furniture. Scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory found that dust kicked up from the desert floor acts like a heat pump in the atmosphere, ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 21, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

NRL RAIDS experiment advances ionospheric remote sensing

Naval Research Laboratory scientists have obtained a first-ever measured altitude profile of a dim extreme-ultraviolet terrestrial airglow emission that provides vital information needed to test and improve ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 18, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Inventor preps robot to cut through ice on Europa

(Phys.org) -- Robots are being developed all the time to do what we wish and to go where we can’t. This week, inventor Bill Stone told attendees at NASA’s Astrobiology Science Conference in Atlanta ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Apr 22, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (26) | comments 52 | with audio podcast weblog

Study finds evidence nanoparticles may increase plant DNA damage

(Phys.org) -- Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass) have provided the first evidence that engineered nanoparticles are ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Apr 18, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Swift satellite monitors departing Comet Garradd

(Phys.org) -- An outbound comet that provided a nice show for skywatchers late last year is the target of an ongoing investigation by NASA's Swift satellite. Formally designated C/2009 P1 (Garradd), the unusually ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Apr 13, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Energy dissipation from vibrating gold nanoparticle strongly influenced by surrounding environment

Metal nanoparticles could play a key role in next-generation light detectors, optical circuits, and cancer therapies. For these future technologies to be realized, it is important to understand what happens ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Apr 12, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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