Building mechanical memory boards using origami
The ancient Japanese art of paper folding, known as origami, can be used to create mechanical, binary switches.
General Physics
Aug 25, 2020
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Applied Physics Letters
A four-state magnetic tunnel junction for novel spintronics applications
A tunnel junction is a device consisting of two conducting layers separated by an insulating layer. Classically, the resistance for driving current across an insulating layer is infinite; however, when the insulating layer ...
Nanophysics
Aug 21, 2020
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9
Q&A: Harnessing sound to better monitor aging pipeline infrastructure
Underground pipelines, some as old as the cities they service, are often far past their intended lifespan and the need for replacing them looms as an expense most municipalities can't afford.
General Physics
Aug 7, 2020
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6
Faster LEDs for wireless communications from invisible light
Researchers have solved a major problem for optical wireless communications—the process by which light carries information between cell phones and other devices. Light-emitting diodes (LEDs) pulse their light in a coded ...
Optics & Photonics
Jul 30, 2020
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Physicists develop technology to transform information from microwaves to optical light
Physicists at the University of Alberta have developed technology that can translate data from microwaves to optical light—an advance that has promising applications in the next generation of super-fast quantum computers ...
Optics & Photonics
Jul 23, 2020
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209
Instantaneous color holography system for sensing fluorescence and white light achieved
The National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), Toin University of Yokohama, and Chiba University have succeeded in developing a color-multiplexed ...
Optics & Photonics
Jul 22, 2020
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98
Self-emitted surface corrugations in dynamic fracture of silicon single crystal
When a dynamic crack propagates through material heterogeneities (material differences), elastic waves are emitted to disturb the crack and change the morphology of the fracture surface. When a crack propagates along preferential ...
Magnetic memory states go exponential
In a new study, a group of researchers led by Prof. Lior Klein, from the physics department and the Institute of Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials at Bar-Ilan University, has shown that relatively simple structures can ...
Condensed Matter
Jul 10, 2020
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Cooling mechanism increases solar energy harvesting for self-powered outdoor sensors
Sensors placed in the environment spend long periods of time outdoors through all weather conditions, and they must continuously power themselves in order to collect data. Many, like photovoltaic cells, use the sun to produce ...
General Physics
Jul 7, 2020
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Red-light LEDs for next-generation displays
Novel red LEDs are more temperature stable than those made using the conventional semiconductor of choice.
Optics & Photonics
Jul 6, 2020
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