News tagged with ultraviolet emission

Light-emitting nanocrystal diodes go ultraviolet: Biomedical device potential for robust, implantable product

(PhysOrg.com) -- A multinational team of scientists has developed a process for creating glass-based, inorganic light-emitting diodes (LEDs) that produce light in the ultraviolet range. The work, reported ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Feb 24, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Transforming galaxies

(PhysOrg.com) -- Many of the Universe's galaxies are like our own, displaying beautiful spiral arms wrapping around a bright nucleus. Examples in this stunning image, taken with the Wide Field Camera 3 on ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Feb 13, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

New semiconductor nanowire laser technology could kill viruses, improve DVDs

A team led by a professor at the University of California, Riverside Bourns College of Engineering has made a discovery in semiconductor nanowire laser technology that could potentially do everything from kill viruses to ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jul 05, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

X-Ray Emission from Young Stars

(PhysOrg.com) -- The star TW Hydrae is located about 150 light-years from earth in the direction of the constellation of Hydrae, the Water Snake. This star is relatively young -- at about 10 million years ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Feb 05, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Rosetta 'Alice' spectrometer reveals Earth's ultraviolet fingerprint in Earth flyby

On Nov. 13, the European Space Agency's comet orbiter spacecraft, Rosetta, swooped by Earth for its third and final gravity assist on the way to humankind's first rendezvous to orbit and study a comet in more ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 14, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter's LAMP shedding light on permanently shadowed regions of the moon

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), launched on June 18 of this year, has begun its extensive exploration of the lunar environment and will return more data about the Moon than any previous mission. ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Sep 17, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0