News tagged with surface wave

Trapping a rainbow: Researchers slow broadband light waves with nanoplasmonic structures

A team of electrical engineers and chemists at Lehigh University have experimentally verified the "rainbow" trapping effect, demonstrating that plasmonic structures can slow down light waves over a broad range of wavelengths.

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Mar 14, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Scientists find increase in microearthquakes after Chilean quake

By studying seismographs from the earthquake that hit Chile last February, earth scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology have found a statistically significant increase of microearthquakes in central ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Feb 25, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Wave-generated 'white hole' boosts Hawking radiation theory: research

A team of UBC physicists and engineers have designed a experiment featuring a trough of flowing water to help bolster a 35-year-old theory proposed by eminent physicist Stephen Hawking.

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 18, 2011 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (17) | comments 13 | with audio podcast

Making better biosensors with electron density waves

An emerging field with the tongue-twisting name of "optofluidic plasmonics" promises a new way to detect and analyze biological molecules for drug discovery, medical diagnostics, and the detection of biochemical weapons. ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Oct 22, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers create 3-D invisibility cloak: study

European researchers have taken the world a step closer to fictional wizard Harry Potter's invisibility cape after they made an object disappear using a three-dimensional "cloak", a study published Thursday in the US-based ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 18, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (16) | comments 6

Sculptured materials allow multiple channel plasmonic sensors

(PhysOrg.com) -- Sensors, communications devices and imaging equipment that use a prism and a special form of light -- a surface plasmon-polariton -- may incorporate multiple channels or redundant applications if manufacturers ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

New Digital 'Electronics' Concept May Continue Moore's Law

(PhysOrg.com) -- Computers of the future could be operating not on electrons, but on tiny waves traveling through an electron "fluid," if a new proposal is successful. The new circuit design, recently introduced ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (78) | comments 12 feature

Floundering El Ninos Make for Fickle Forecasts

(PhysOrg.com) -- Since May 2009, the tropical Pacific Ocean has switched from a cool pattern of ocean circulation known as La Niņa to her warmer sibling, El Niņo. This cyclical warming of the ocean waters ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 29, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 0

World's smallest semiconductor laser heralds new era in optical science

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have reached a new milestone in laser physics by creating the world's smallest semiconductor laser, capable of generating visible light ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Aug 30, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (25) | comments 1

Listening to rocks helps researchers better understand earthquakes

(PhysOrg.com) -- When Apollo punished King Midas by giving him donkey ears, only the king and his barber knew. Unable to keep a secret, the barber dug a hole, whispered into it, "King Midas has donkey ears," ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Aug 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 0

'Invisibility cloak' could protect against earthquakes

(PhysOrg.com) -- Research at the University of Liverpool has shown it is possible to develop an 'invisibility cloak' to protect buildings from earthquakes.

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 20, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (24) | comments 7

Mathematicians provide new insight into tsunamis

A new mathematical formula that could be used to give advance warning of where a tsunami is likely to hit and how destructive it will be has been worked out by scientists at Newcastle University.

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Apr 01, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Single-Molecule Magnets Open New Door for Information Technology

(PhysOrg.com) -- Recent research by scientists in Italy and France shows that that single molecules have the ability to store information via their magnetic state. Their work is a first step toward a new generation ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Mar 09, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (24) | comments 2 feature

Plasmonic whispering gallery microcavity paves the way to future nanolasers

The principle behind whispering galleries - where words spoken softly beneath a domed ceiling or in a vault can be clearly heard on the opposite side of the chamber - has been used to achieve what could prove ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 24, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 2


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