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Digital quantum batteries inspired by plasma TVs

(PhysOrg.com) -- Plasma TVs are notorious for their excessive use of electricity, but the same principle used to produce high definition pictures in the TVs could result in the development of a new type of ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jan 28, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (16) | comments 3 | with audio podcast report

Digital Quantum Battery Could Boost Energy Density Tenfold

(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists theorize that quantum phenomena could provide a major boost to batteries, with the potential to increase energy density up to 10 times that of lithium ion batteries. According to ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (55) | comments 17 weblog




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Stanford experts say Silicon Valley is poised to play a key role as Japan restructures its power industry

As cities and towns rebuild after last year's devastating tsunami and earthquake in northeastern Japan, there is a potentially huge demand for the green technology and new information technology now being ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Mar 08, 2012 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Engineers create cell phone-based sensor for detection of E. coli

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science have developed a new cell phone–based fluorescent imaging and sensing platform that can detect the presence ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Feb 23, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Small things, big thinking

Finely tuned for touch and smell, the fly foot has sensors that can detect both chemical and mechanical changes in the environment.  The outcome of more than three billion years of evolution, these sensors are far smaller ...

Chemistry / Other

created Jan 20, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

Seeing quantum mechanics with the naked eye

(PhysOrg.com) -- A Cambridge team have built a semiconductor chip that converts electrons into a quantum state that emits light but is large enough to see by eye. Because their quantum superfluid is simply ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Jan 09, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (44) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Trillion-frame-per-second video

By using optical equipment in a totally unexpected way, MIT researchers have created an imaging system that makes light look slow.

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 13, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (41) | comments 30 | with audio podcast

Quantum tunneling results in record transistor performance

(PhysOrg.com) -- Controlling power consumption in mobile devices and large scale data centers is a pressing concern for the computer chip industry. Researchers from Penn State and epitaxial wafer maker IQE ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Dec 12, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Review: AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II

Android is on fire, and Samsung is stoking the flames with the Galaxy S II. It's the fastest selling Android device with 10 million units sold worldwide. Is the Galaxy S II the best current Android phone? ...

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Oct 27, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (6) | comments 2

Advance offers new opportunities in chemistry education, research

Researchers at Oregon State University have created a new, unifying method to describe a basic chemical concept called "electronegativity," first described almost 80 years ago by OSU alumnus Linus Pauling ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Oct 04, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

A manganite changes its stripes

If there were a Hall of Fame for materials, manganites would be among its members. Some manganites, compounds of manganese oxides, are renowned for colossal magnetoresistance – the ability to suddenly ...

Physics / Superconductivity

created Jul 15, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 14 | with audio podcast

Miracle material: Graphene

(PhysOrg.com) -- In the 19th century novel, Flatland, by Edward A. Abbott, residents of that fictional country exist in only two dimensions. Women are born as line segments, while men come in a range of geometric ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created May 19, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 12 | with audio podcast


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