Scientists record yoctonewton forces
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists in Australia and the US have discovered that trapped ions are "exquisitely sensitive" force detectors, and have used them to record the tiniest forces ever measured.
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Life after silicon: Using exotic materials to help microchips keep improving
(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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Electrostatic surface cleaning
It's often the little things that count in industrial manufacturing processes. Particles less than half the diameter of a hair in size can significantly impair quality in production. For example, there should be no particles ...
Engineering
Oct 7, 2009
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DNA gripped in nanopores
Molecular biologists, including the cool dudes from CSI, use gel electrophoresis to separate DNA fragments from each other in order to analyze the DNA. A team of researchers under the leadership of Vici winner Serge Lemay, ...
Bio & Medicine
May 14, 2009
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Making a Point: Picoscale Stability in a Room-Temperature AFM
(PhysOrg.com) -- Forget dancing angels, a research team from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Colorado (CU) has shown how to detect and monitor the tiny amount of light reflected ...
Nanophysics
Mar 25, 2009
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Nanoscopic static electricity generates chiral patterns
In the tiny world of amino acids and proteins and in the helical shape of DNA, a biological phenomenon abounds.
Bio & Medicine
Feb 2, 2009
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