News tagged with solid
Scientists investigate atomic-scale mechanisms of nanowire growth process
(PhysOrg.com) -- Nanowires can be grown in many ways, but one of the lesser-understood growth processes is vapor-liquid-solid (VLS) growth. In VLS, a vapor adsorbs onto a liquid droplet, and the droplet transports ...
Nov 01, 2010 |
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Probing the magnetic properties of solid oxygen
(PhysOrg.com) -- "Many scientists, like me, have an interest in the simplest molecules," Stefan Klotz tells PhysOrg.com. "These simple molecules, like water, nitrogen and oxygen, are in quite of the lot of ...
Mar 26, 2010 |
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Artificial magnetic fields for light could illuminate correlated quantum systems
(PhysOrg.com) -- In general, the field of many-body physics involves the interactions and collective behavior of large numbers of particles. Scientists have made significant progress in exploring this field, ...
Feb 03, 2010 |
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Infrared Nanotube Films Offer Advantages for Solar Cells and More
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have already known that carbon nanotube thin films have mechanical and conductive advantages that could make them useful as electrodes in solar cells, solid state lighting, and ...
Mar 11, 2009 |
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'Voltage Patterning' could be next step in nanostructure lithography
(PhysOrg.com) -- "What you want these days is to have precise control of nanostructures. Using masks and optical techniques, it is possible to control how nanostructures grow for use in practical applications," David Field ...
Mar 02, 2009 |
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New small solid oxide fuel cell reaches record efficiency
Individual homes and entire neighborhoods could be powered with a new, small-scale solid oxide fuel cell system that achieves up to 57 percent efficiency, significantly higher than the 30 to 50 percent efficiencies ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
May 31, 2012 |
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In metallic glasses, researchers find a few new atomic structures
Drawing on powerful computational tools and a state-of-the-art scanning transmission electron microscope, a team of University of Wisconsin-Madison and Iowa State University materials science and engineering researchers has ...
May 11, 2012 |
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Quantum control protocols could lead to more accurate, larger scale quantum computations
A protocol for controlling quantum information pioneered by researchers at UC Santa Barbara, the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience in Delft, the Netherlands, and the Ames Laboratory at Iowa State University could ...
Apr 04, 2012 |
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Solved: The mystery of the nanoscale crop circles
(PhysOrg.com) -- Almost three years ago a team of scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) was performing an experiment in which layers of gold mere ...
Mar 02, 2012 |
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Exotic new matter expected in ultracold atoms
(PhysOrg.com) -- Just as NASA engineers test new rocket designs in computer studies before committing themselves to full prototypes, so physicists will often model matter under various circumstances to see whether something ...
Feb 29, 2012 |
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Many bodies make one coherent burst of light: Researchers see superfluorescence from solid-state material
In a flash, the world changed for Tim Noe – and for physicists who study what they call many-body problems. The Rice University graduate student was the first to see, in the summer of 2010, proof of a ...
Jan 30, 2012 |
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Quick-cooking nanomaterials in microwave to make tomorrow's air conditioners
Engineering researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a new method for creating advanced nanomaterials that could lead to highly efficient refrigerators and cooling systems requiring no ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jan 10, 2012 |
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Scientists drag light by slowing it to speed of sound
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the University of Glasgow have, for the first time, been able to drag light by slowing it down to the speed of sound and sending it through a rotating crystal.
Jul 06, 2011 |
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Phase change memory-based 'moneta' system points to the future of computer storage
A University of California, San Diego faculty-student team is about to demonstrate a first-of-its kind, phase-change memory solid state storage device that provides performance thousands of times faster than ...
Jun 02, 2011 |
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Researchers take a step toward valleytronics
Valley-based electronics, also known as valleytronics, is one step closer to reality. Two researchers at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) have shown that the valley degree of freedom in graphene can be ...
Apr 27, 2011 |
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