News tagged with resolutions

Integral 3D TV system projects a promising future (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Critics of 3D viewing may call the technology a passing fad, but if engineers can overcome some of the challenges of today's 3D systems, 3D TV could work its way into becoming a common household ...

Technology / Engineering

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Scientists find metallic magnet with largest yet atomic displacement during thermal expansion

(PhysOrg.com) -- Although most materials change shape in the presence of a magnetic field, the change is usually very small. In a new study, scientists have found that a certain magnet containing manganese experiences a change ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Jul 30, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (16) | comments 5 | with audio podcast feature

NLT announces naked-eye display with better 3-D view

(Phys.org) -- NLT Technologies has announced its development of an autostereoscopic multiview display based on the success of its HxDP technology. HxDP stands for Horizontally x times Density Pixels. The company ...

Electronics / Hardware

created May 18, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 4 | with audio podcast report

Researchers find new form of Mars lava flow

High-resolution photos of lava flows on Mars reveal coiling spiral patterns that resemble snail or nautilus shells. Such patterns have been found in a few locations on Earth, but never before on Mars. The ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Apr 26, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Computing the best high-resolution 3-D tissue images

Real-time, 3-D microscopic tissue imaging could be a revolution for medical fields such as cancer diagnosis, minimally invasive surgery and ophthalmology. University of Illinois researchers have developed ...

Physics / General Physics

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A breakthrough in superlens development: Cheap, simple lens to let us see a single virus

A superlens would let you see a virus in a drop of blood and open the door to better and cheaper electronics. It might, says Durdu Guney, make ultra-high-resolution microscopes as commonplace as cameras in ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Jan 09, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (29) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

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

Meteorite shockwaves trigger dust avalanches on Mars

(PhysOrg.com) -- Dust avalanches around impact craters on Mars appear to be the result of the shock wave preceding the actual impact, according to a study led by an undergraduate student at the UA.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 14 | with audio podcast

Research team develops method to produce large sheets of metamaterials

(PhysOrg.com) -- In an announcement many have been waiting for, a research team from the University of Illinois, has succeeded in figuring out how to produce metamaterials in a size big enough to be useful. ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jun 15, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 2 | with audio podcast report

New lens doubles the resolution of conventional microscopes

(PhysOrg.com) -- Conventional lenses can resolve structures around 200 nanometers (nm) in size, but scientists in Europe have for the first time developed a lens capable of achieving optical resolution of ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Mar 25, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (23) | comments 3 | with audio podcast report

3-D printing method advances electrically small antenna design

Omnidirectional printing of metallic nanoparticle inks offers an attractive alternative for meeting the demanding form factors of 3-D electrically small antennas. This is the first demonstration of 3-D printed ...

Technology / Engineering

created Mar 16, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Winds of change strike Mars, too

Mysterious dark sand dunes around Mars' northern polar cap are shifting with the seasons, as carbon dioxide gas changes form and sparks landscape-altering avalanches, said a study published Thursday.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Feb 03, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (14) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Method prints nanostructures using hard, sharp 'pen' tips floating on soft polymer springs

(PhysOrg.com) -- Northwestern University researchers have developed a new technique for rapidly prototyping nanoscale devices and structures that is so inexpensive the "print head" can be thrown away when ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jan 26, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Graphene grains make atom-thick patchwork 'quilts'

(PhysOrg.com) -- A quick look at new Cornell research hints at colorful patchwork quilts, but they are actually pictures of graphene -- one atom-thick sheets of carbon stitched together at tilted interfaces. ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jan 05, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Researchers image atomic structural changes that control properties of sapphires

Materials scientists from Case Western Reserve University and the Institute of Solid State Research in Julich, Germany have produced particularly clear changes in the atomic structure of sapphire following deformation at ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Nov 25, 2010 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast