Researchers at North Carolina State University have created a new compound that can be integrated into silicon chips and is a dilute magnetic semiconductor – meaning that it could be used to make "spintronic" devices, which ...
General Physics
Sep 10, 2013
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(Phys.org) —A high-power atomic force microscope that could revolutionize the study of materials at high temperatures and pressures is coming into focus in a Wright State University lab.
Nanophysics
Jul 1, 2013
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Scientists at Aalto University and Utrecht University have created single atom contacts between gold and graphene nanoribbons.
Nanomaterials
Jun 13, 2013
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(Phys.org)—Sightings of ball lightning have been made for centuries around the world – usually the size of a grapefruit and lasting up to twenty seconds – but no explanation of how it occurs has been universally accepted ...
General Physics
Oct 12, 2012
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Throughout the universe more than 99 percent of matter looks nothing like what's on Earth. Instead of materials we can touch and see, instead of motions we intuitively expect like a ball rolling down a hill, or a cup that ...
Plasma Physics
Jul 18, 2012
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(Phys.org) -- A team of scientists at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) and University of Cambridge has made a significant advance in using nano-devices to create accurate electrical currents. Electrical current is composed ...
Nanophysics
Jul 6, 2012
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Theoretical physicist Ali Naji from the IPM in Tehran and the University of Cambridge, UK, and his colleagues have shown how small random patches of disordered, frozen electric charges can make a difference when they are ...
General Physics
Apr 30, 2012
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The huge increases in the power and capacity of computers, cell phones and communications networks in the last 40 years have been the result of ever-shrinking silicon transistors. But silicon transistors ...
Electronics & Semiconductors
Dec 8, 2009
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Kansas State University engineers think the possibilities are deep for a very thin material.
Bio & Medicine
Apr 13, 2009
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Electrostatic actuators are simple and lightweight devices that emulate human muscles. However, their usage has primarily been restricted to moving small devices since they need high voltages to generate significant forces. ...
General Physics
Nov 17, 2022
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