News tagged with photon sources

Graetzel cells are implanted in an iPad keyboard

Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSC) from EPFL enter the public market. Logitech chose this technology to power its new flagship product.

Technology / Engineering

created May 29, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

How to make a splash

(Phys.org) -- A team of physicists has used the high-energy x-rays of the Advanced Photon Source (APS) at Argonne National Laboratory to penetrate the everyday mystery of a splash, revealing previously hidden ...

Physics / Soft Matter

created May 09, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

How heroin works: Imaging opioid receptors in the brain

(Phys.org) -- Researchers and doctors have gleaned new clues to the molecular mechanisms behind some of the most addictive substances in the world, thanks to two new studies that uncovered the structures of ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Apr 25, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Fiber laser points to woven 3-D displays

Most light emitters, from candles to light bulbs to computer screens, look the same from any angle. But in a paper published this week on the Nature Photonics website, MIT researchers report the development of a n ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Mar 12, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (9) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Virtual ghost imaging: New technique enables imaging even through highly adverse conditions

Ghost imaging (GI), and its even more oddly named cousin virtual ghost imaging (VGI), seem to contradict conventional wisdom by being able to image an object by simply counting photons in a "light bucket." This non-intuitive ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 15, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Manipulating genes with hidden TALENs

(PhysOrg.com) -- A better understanding of gene function in model plant and animal systems could be used to develop useful traits in livestock and crop plants, and might someday lead to developments in stem ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Feb 13, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Disappearing gold a boon for nanolattices

(PhysOrg.com) -- When gold vanishes from a very important location, it usually means trouble. At the nanoscale, however, it could provide more knowledge about certain types of materials. A recent discovery ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Monitoring the transformation of silver nanowires into gold nanotubes with in situ transmission X-ray microscopy

(PhysOrg.com) -- A technique for real-time monitoring of the galvanic replacement reaction between silver nanowires and aqueous gold salt solutions using in situ flow-cell transmission X-ray microscopy (TXM) ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Dec 21, 2011 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The road to ultrahigh-resolution X-ray spectrometers

Two recent developments at the Advanced Photon Source explore paths to routine use of sub-meV x-rays to probe low-energy excitations in matter. The first is a remarkable experimental demonstration of an x-ray ...

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 29, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers unravel the mystery of quantum dot blinking

(PhysOrg.com) -- Research by Los Alamos scientists published today in the journal Nature documents significant progress in understanding the phenomenon of quantum-dot blinking. Their findings should enhanc ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Nov 09, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (12) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Small defects mean big problems for industrial solar cells

Nanoscale clustering of metal impurities at intragranular dislocations within industrial mc-Si solar cells have been observed by users from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology working with the Center ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Oct 13, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers find world's first x-ray laser produces most coherent x-ray radiation ever

(PhysOrg.com) -- The world's first x-ray laser, the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS), first unveiled in 2009 at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center in Palo Alto California, has been undergoing testing ...

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 03, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 8 | with audio podcast report

Fujitsu develops compact silicon photonics light source for high-bandwidth CPU interconnects

Fujitsu Laboratories announced the development of a compact silicon photonics light source for use in optical transceivers required for optical interconnects capable of carrying large volumes of data at high ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Sep 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Faster 3D nanoimaging a possibility with full colour synchrotron light

Researchers can now see objects more precisely and faster at the nanoscale due to utilising the full colour spectrum of synchrotron light, opening the way for faster 3D nanoimaging.

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Jul 01, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Squeezed light from single atoms

(PhysOrg.com) -- Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics scientists generate amplitude-squeezed light fields using single atoms trapped inside optical cavities.

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Jun 30, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast