News tagged with transmission

Introducing Stringbike: the bike with no chain (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Hungarian bicycle designers have unveiled their new Stringbike in Padova, Italy. The design replaces the traditional chain with a symmetrical rope and pulley system, which they say is more ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Sep 22, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (43) | comments 24 | with audio podcast report

Japan collab transmits record data speeds on terahertz waves

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from Japan-based semiconductor manufacturer Rohm, together with a team from Osaka University, have come up with a chip that, in experiments, has achieved a wireless data transmission ...

Technology / Telecom

created Nov 25, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (24) | comments 20 | with audio podcast weblog

'Electron vortices' have the potential to increase conventional microscopes' capabilities

(PhysOrg.com) -- Electron microscopes are among the most widely used scientific and medical tools for studying and understanding a wide range of materials, from biological tissue to miniature magnetic devices, ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (21) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Blocked holes can enhance rather than stop light going through

Conventional wisdom would say that blocking a hole would prevent light from going through it, but Princeton University engineers have discovered the opposite to be true. A research team has found that placing ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Nov 22, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (22) | comments 25 | with audio podcast

First direct observation of unusual magnetic structure could lead to novel electronic, magnetic memory devices

In conventional ferromagnets, the individual magnetic moments of the atoms that together comprise the magnetism of the material are all aligned parallel, pointing in a common direction. In ...

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 30, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (19) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Physicists build first single-photon router

(PhysOrg.com) -- By demonstrating that an artificial atom embedded in a transmission line can route a single photon from an input port to one of two output ports, physicists have built the first router working ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Aug 22, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (18) | comments 1 | with audio podcast feature

Researchers revolutionize electron microscope

Researchers at the University of Sheffield have revolutionised the electron microscope by developing a new method which could create the highest resolution images ever seen.

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 05, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (19) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

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

26 terabits per second: World record in ultra-rapid data transmission

German scientists of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology have succeeded in encoding data at a rate of 26 terabits per second on a single laser beam, transmitting them over a distance of 50 km, and decoding them ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created May 23, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (15) | comments 11 | with audio podcast

Removing 'black sheep' could make Internet run more efficiently

(PhysOrg.com) -- Whether dealing with Internet traffic or vehicle traffic, congestion can slow everything down. One team of researchers working on improving network transmission efficiency has developed a ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Feb 28, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (14) | comments 16 | with audio podcast report

Research team casts light on asteroid deflection

So you think global warming is a big problem? What could happen if a 25-million-ton chunk of rock slammed into Earth? When something similar happened 65 million years ago, the dinosaurs and other forms of life were wiped ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 28, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (14) | comments 58 | with audio podcast

New error-correcting codes guarantee the fastest possible rate of data transmission

Error-correcting codes are one of the triumphs of the digital age. They’re a way of encoding information so that it can be transmitted across a communication channel — such as an optical fiber o ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Feb 10, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (12) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

Microscopy reveals 'atomic antenna' behavior in graphene

Atomic-level defects in graphene could be a path forward to smaller and faster electronic devices, according to a study led by researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jan 31, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Nokia Siemens Networks achieves world record copper DSL speeds

Nokia Siemens Networks has successfully tested a technology that could drastically increase the data carrying capacity of standard copper wires. The company achieved data transmission speeds of 825 megabits per second (Mbps) ...

Technology / Telecom

created Oct 31, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (11) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Using nanophotonics to reshape on-chip computer data transmission

A team at Stanford's School of Engineering has demonstrated an ultrafast nanoscale light emitting diode (LED) that is orders of magnitude lower in power consumption than today's laser-based systems and able ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Nov 15, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (11) | comments 1 | with audio podcast