A breakthrough for terahertz semiconductor lasers
(PhysOrg.com) -- Potential applications, says an engineering professor, include disease diagnosis and detection of concealed explosives.
General Physics
Jan 13, 2011
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News tagged with visible spectrum
Dual-color lasers could lead to cheap and efficient LED lighting
(Phys.org) —A new semiconductor device capable of emitting two distinct colours has been created by a group of researchers in the US, potentially opening up the possibility of using light emitting diodes (LEDs) universally ...
Electronics & Semiconductors
May 3, 2013
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New photonic liquid crystals could lead to next-generation displays
A new technique to change the structure of liquid crystals could lead to the development of fast-responding liquid crystals suitable for next generation displays—3-D, augmented and virtual reality—and advanced photonic ...
Materials Science
Nov 8, 2019
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Engineers' new metamaterial doubles up on invisibility (w/ Video)
(Phys.org) —The new material's artificial "atoms" are designed to work with a broad range of light frequencies. With adjustments, the researchers believe it could lead to perfect microscope lenses or invisibility cloaks.
Optics & Photonics
May 7, 2013
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Wildfires, volcanoes and climate change—how satellites tell the story of our changing world
The Environment Agency recently announced that the average rainfall for the first two weeks of July in England was 6mm, while only 15mm fell throughout all of June. To give some idea of how low this is, the definition of ...
Environment
Jul 26, 2018
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Uranus aurora discovery offers clues to habitable icy worlds
The presence of an infrared aurora on the cold, outer planet of Uranus has been confirmed for the first time by University of Leicester astronomers.
Astronomy
Oct 26, 2023
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Continuous infrared winds discovered during the eruption of a stellar mass black hole
A team of researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has, for the first time, detected constant infrared emission from winds produced during the eruption of a black hole in an X-ray binary.
Astronomy
Aug 27, 2020
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Nanocubes simplify printing and imaging in color and infrared
Duke University researchers believe they have overcome a longstanding hurdle to producing cheaper, more robust ways to print and image across a range of colors extending into the infrared.
Nanophysics
Dec 14, 2016
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Radio interference from satellites is threatening astronomy—zone proposed for testing new technologies
Visible light is just one part of the electromagnetic spectrum that astronomers use to study the universe. The James Webb Space Telescope was built to see infrared light, other space telescopes capture X-ray images, and observatories ...
Astronomy
Mar 3, 2023
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Looking at Jupiter's radio frequencies
In the visible spectrum, Jupiter is a bright, star-like point in the night sky. Viewing it with the naked eye, it would be easy to confuse it with a star except for the fact that it doesn't twinkle. At radio frequencies ...
Space Exploration
Sep 10, 2014
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