News tagged with strontium ions

Scientists Show Strontium's Swimming Skills

(PhysOrg.com) -- Recently, a trio from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Louisiana Tech University showed that strontium ions congregate on water's surface. Their computer simulation and careful calculations ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1




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An electrical switch for magnetic current

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new mechanism will make it possible to switch data storage in the future. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics in Halle use a short electric pulse to change ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Mar 01, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

LAMIS -- a green chemistry alternative for laser spectroscopy

At some point this year, after NASA's rover Curiosity has landed on Mars, a laser will fire a beam of infrared light at a rock or soil sample. This will "ablate" or vaporize a microgram-sized piece of the ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Mar 01, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Reducing ion exchange particles to nano-size shows big potential

Sometimes bigger isn't better. Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Savannah River National Laboratory have successfully shown that they can replace useful little particles of monosodium titanate (MST) with even ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Researchers demonstrate rare combination of electric and magnetic properties in strontium barium manganite

An electric field can displace the cloud of electrons surrounding each atom of a solid. In an effect known as polarization, the cloud centers move away slightly from the positively charged nuclei, which radically ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Jan 27, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

An about-face on electrical conductivity at the interface

(PhysOrg.com) -- To improve the electronic devices that keep our modern, hyper-connected world organized, scientists are on the hunt for new semiconductor materials, which control the flow of electricity that ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Nov 15, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Complex oxide interfaces are more complex than previously thought

Using experimental resources at EMSL, scientists from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and University College London have shown that intermixing occurs at the interface of two perovskites – l ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Aug 18, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New calculations on blackbody energy set the stage for clocks with unprecedented accuracy

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of physicists from the United States and Russia announced today that it has developed a means for computing, with unprecedented accuracy, a tiny, temperature-dependent source of error in atomic clocks. ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created May 09, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

The importance of fundamental measurements

At the Radioactive Isotope Beam Facility (RIBF) of the RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerator Science in Wako, a research team has measured the time it takes for 38 extremely rare isotopes to decay by half. ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 04, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Technique reveals quantum phase transition; could lead to superconducting transistors

(PhysOrg.com) -- Like atomic-level bricklayers, researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory are using a precise atom-by-atom layering technique to fabricate an ultrathin ...

Physics / Superconductivity

created Apr 27, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (14) | comments 13 | with audio podcast

Engineering atomic interfaces for new electronics

(PhysOrg.com) -- Most people cross borders such as doorways or state lines without thinking much about it. Yet not all borders are places of limbo intended only for crossing. Some borders, like those between ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 17, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast


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