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T-ray madness: Scientists score wireless data record

(Phys.org) -- Wednesday headlines trumpeted how "Japanese researchers smash Wi-Fi records" and "Scientists show off the future of Wi-Fi." The excitement is for good reason. A team of scientists have broken ...

Technology / Telecom

created May 16, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (16) | comments 9 | with audio podcast weblog

T-rays technology could help develop star trek-style hand-held medical scanners

Scientists have developed a new way to create electromagnetic Terahertz (THz) waves or T-rays - the technology behind full-body security scanners. The researchers behind the study, published recently in the journal Nature Ph ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Jan 20, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (15) | comments 14 | with audio podcast

Softening crystals without heat: Using terahertz pulses to manipulate molecular networks

As if borrowing from a scene in a science fiction movie, Japanese researchers at Kyoto University have successfully developed a kind of tractor beam that can be used to manipulate the network of the molecules. In a paper ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Nov 09, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers demonstrate highly directional Terahertz laser rays

A collaborative team of applied scientists from Harvard University and the University of Leeds have demonstrated a new terahertz (THz) semiconductor laser that emits beams with a much smaller divergence than ...

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 08, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (22) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Physicists see through the opaque with 'T-rays'

"T-rays" may make X-rays obsolete as a means of detecting bombs on terrorists or illegal drugs on traffickers, among other uses, contends a Texas A&M physicist who is helping lay the theoretical groundwork to make the concept ...

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 18, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (13) | comments 0

Turning metal black more than just a novelty

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Rochester optics professor Chunlei Guo made headlines in the past couple of years when he changed the color of everyday metals by scouring their surfaces with precise, high-intensity laser bursts.

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (20) | comments 5

Company Introduces Novel Nanotechnology for Revolutionizing Imaging Using T-rays

Yissum Research Development Company of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem today announced that Professor L.D. Shvartsman and Professor B. Laikhtman, from the Racah Institute of Physics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 0