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Physicists investigate electron fractionalization into not two, but three components

One of the many intriguing puzzles in physics is the strange behavior of the electron as it fractionalizes into two separate quasiparticles. These quasiparticles, called spinons and chargons (or holons), carry the electron’s ...

Physics / General Physics

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IBM Scientists Create Ultra-Fast Device Which Uses Light for Communication between Computer Chips

(PhysOrg.com) -- IBM scientists today unveiled a significant step towards replacing electrical signals that communicate via copper wires between computer chips with tiny silicon circuits that communicate using ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Mar 03, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (45) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Discovery about behavior of building block of nature could lead to computer revolution

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of physicists from the Universities of Cambridge and Birmingham have shown that electrons in narrow wires can divide into two new particles called spinons and a holons.

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 30, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (40) | comments 7

High-voltage engineers create nearly 200-foot-long electrical arcs using less energy than before (Update)

Photos taken by the researchers show plasma arcs up to 60 meters long casting an eerie blue glow over buildings and trees at the High Voltage Laboratory at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand.

Physics / Plasma Physics

created Nov 08, 2011 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (43) | comments 17 | with audio podcast

Scientists discover world's smallest superconductor

Scientists have discovered the world's smallest superconductor, a sheet of four pairs of molecules less than one nanometer wide. The Ohio University-led study, published Sunday as an advance online publication ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Mar 29, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (36) | comments 14 | with audio podcast

Intel's Light Peak Will Replace Copper Wires

(PhysOrg.com) -- At the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco Wednesday, the company announced a new optical cable that will be able to transfer data, between electrical devices, starting at speeds of 10 ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Sep 24, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (34) | comments 17 weblog

Superconductor breakthrough could power new advances (w/ Video)

 (PhysOrg.com) -- The first batch of a new range of powerful superconductors which could revolutionise the production of machines like hospital MRI scanners and protect the national grid has been developed ...

Physics / Superconductivity

created Jul 09, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (31) | comments 26 | with audio podcast

Wizard at circuits, physics

(PhysOrg.com) -- Donhee Ham, Gordon McKay Professor of Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics, uses his personal energy and understanding of physics to design innovative integrated circuits.

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (24) | comments 0

Sony unveils 'Single Wire Interface Technology'

(PhysOrg.com) -- With Sony's newly-developed 'single wire interface technology' bi-directional transmission of multiple signals, including video, audio and control signals can propagate over a single copper ...

Technology / Engineering

created Aug 20, 2010 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (28) | comments 16 | with audio podcast weblog

Innovative superconductor fibers carry 40 times more electricity

Wiring systems powered by highly-efficient superconductors have long been a dream of science, but researchers have faced such practical challenges such as finding pliable and cost-effective materials. Now ...

Physics / Superconductivity

created Sep 07, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (23) | comments 23 | with audio podcast

Secrets behind high temperature superconductors revealed

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists from Queen Mary, University of London and the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) have found evidence that magnetism is involved in the mechanism behind high temperature superconductivity.

Physics / Superconductivity

created Feb 22, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (24) | comments 29

Researchers create highly absorbing, flexible solar cells with silicon wire arrays

Using arrays of long, thin silicon wires embedded in a polymer substrate, a team of scientists from the California Institute of Technology has created a new type of flexible solar cell that enhances the absorption ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Feb 16, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (18) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Tiny Music Player Made from Wire Bridge (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- In 2008, scientists built a loudspeaker made of carbon nanotubes that produced sound and music based on the thermoacoustic effect. Now, a different team of scientists has built a loudspeaker ...

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (18) | comments 1 feature

'Amplified' nanotubes may power the future

Rice University scientists have achieved a pivotal breakthrough in the development of a cable that will make an efficient electric grid of the future possible.

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jul 14, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (15) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

Scientists discover a surprising new way that protons can move among molecules

When a proton – the bare nucleus of a hydrogen atom – transfers from one molecule to another, or moves within a molecule, the result is a hydrogen bond, in which the proton and another atom like ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Mar 18, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (14) | comments 1 | with audio podcast