News tagged with tungsten particles

Trouble with sputter? Blame giant nanoparticles

When you tear open a bag of potato chips or pop in a DVD, you're probably putting your hand on sputter deposition. No, don't run for the soap.

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Aug 25, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 2 | with audio podcast




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New inexpensive, environmentally friendly solar cell shines with potential

(Phys.org) -- The limitations of conventional and current solar cells include high production cost, low operating efficiency and durability, and many cells rely on toxic and scarce materials. Northwestern University researchers ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created May 23, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (13) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

NuSTAR's mirrors baked in Zhang's glass kitchen

(PhysOrg.com) -- It pays to persevere. No one knows this better than Will Zhang.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Feb 24, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 2

Physicists develop nano-level sound detector

(PhysOrg.com) -- For a couple of decades now, physicists have known that if a very small laser beam is pointed at a microscopic particle, it could be held in place due to the very small electrical field that ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 12, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2 | with audio podcast report

A tool to touch the sun

A scientist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) is leading an effort to design an instrument that would be the first to come directly into contact with the sun’s fiery atmosphere ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 25, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 6

Scientists take up golf to prove long-standing theory of cell stickiness

State-of-the-art, highly-sensitive golf clubs, developed by scientists, regularly catch the eye of golf's elite; however before the likes of Rory McIlroy get excited this time, this new golf putter is being ...

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 05, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Understanding tungsten migration blazes trail for nano electronic device development

Trios of tungsten atoms are greatly influenced in their migration across the wilds of a tiny particle by the shape of the particle, according to a team of experts, including Pacific Northwest National Laboratory's Dr. Fei ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Sep 15, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

CRESST team finds new 'evidence' of dark matter

(PhysOrg.com) -- In the never ending search for proof that dark matter really exists, new findings have emerged from a team working under a big mountain in Italy. The group, from the Max Planck Institute in ...

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 08, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (20) | comments 92 | with audio podcast report

Berkeley lab scientists unveil an X-ray technique called HARPES

The expression “beauty’s only skin-deep” has often been applied to the chemistry of materials because so much action takes place at the surface. However, for many of the materials in today’s ...

Physics / General Physics

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

Particle collider's Russian supplier bankrupt: report

A Russian factory producing the crystals used in the world's biggest particle collider is bankrupt, a report said Wednesday, questioning why the government would not bail out the unique facility.

Technology / Business

created Aug 03, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Discovery of a new magnetic order

Physicists at Forschungszentrum Jülich and the universities of Kiel and Hamburg are the first to discover a regular lattice of stable magnetic skyrmions – radial spiral structures made up of atomic-scale ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 31, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (17) | comments 6 | with audio podcast


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