News tagged with wavelength bands

Light-controlling artificial diamond structures could lead to optical computers

(PhysOrg.com) -- In an effort to make computer chips even faster than those of today, many researchers have recently been investigating the possibility of optical computing. In an optical computer, information ...

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 17, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (10) | comments 3 | with audio podcast report

Using CNTs as infrared sensors

(PhysOrg.com) -- Semiconductors provide the bases for many different avenues of device research. Indeed, many of the technological devices that are commonplace in our society are reliant on semiconductors. However, as we ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jan 04, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (15) | comments 0 | with audio podcast feature

First germanium laser brings us closer to 'optical computers'

(PhysOrg.com) -- MIT researchers have demonstrated the first laser built from germanium that can produce wavelengths of light useful for optical communication. It’s also the first germanium laser to operate ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Feb 04, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (27) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

Millisecond pulsar in spin mode

Astronomers have tracked down the first gamma-ray pulsar in a globular cluster of stars. It is around 27,000 light years away and thus also holds the distance record in this class of objects. Moreover, its ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Nov 03, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

9 new gamma pulsars

Pulsars are the lighthouses of the universe. These compact and fast-rotating neutron stars flash many times per second in the radio or gamma-ray band. Pure gamma-ray pulsars are extremely difficult to find ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Nov 03, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Mysterious stellar absorption lines could illuminate 90-year puzzle

The discovery of 13 diffuse interstellar bands with the longest wavelengths to date could someday solve a 90-year-old mystery.

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Nov 02, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

NASA's SkyView Delivers the Multiwavelength Cosmos

(PhysOrg.com) -- Some three million times a year, researchers, educators, and amateur astronomers all over the world ask NASA's SkyView virtual observatory to serve up images of some interesting corner of ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Feb 04, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

NASA Landsat's thermal infrared sensor arrives at Orbital

A new NASA satellite instrument that makes a quantum leap forward in detector technology has arrived at Orbital Sciences Corp. in Gilbert, Ariz. There it will be integrated into the next Landsat satellite, ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Feb 14, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

In Search of Dark Asteroids (and Other Sneaky Things)

Ninjas knew how to be stealthy: Be dark. Emit very little light. Move in the shadows between bright places.

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Sep 16, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (6) | comments 1