Solar energy system pricing is at an all-time low, according to the latest editions of two recurring "state of the market" reports released today by the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley ...
Energy & Green Tech
Aug 24, 2016
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Quantum computers promise speedy solutions to some difficult problems, but building large-scale, general-purpose quantum devices is a problem fraught with technical challenges.
Quantum Physics
Aug 3, 2016
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Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have found a way to give photons, or light packets, their marching orders.
Optics & Photonics
Jun 17, 2016
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University of Iowa researchers are working with a California-based startup company to make clean energy from sunlight and any source of water.
Materials Science
Jun 16, 2016
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Scientists at UC San Diego, MIT and Harvard University have engineered "topological plexcitons," energy-carrying particles that could help make possible the design of new kinds of solar cells and miniaturized optical circuitry.
Nanophysics
Jun 9, 2016
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An HZB team has combined two different analytical methods at the BESSY II synchrotron source in order to extract more information about the chemistry of transition-metal compounds in solution. These kinds of compounds can ...
Materials Science
May 11, 2016
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Tunnelling ionization studies by researchers in Japan and Russia show changes in electron distributions between ground- and excited-state in laser tunnelling ionization of molecules.
General Physics
May 10, 2016
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Photoexcitation is an important process in chemistry. It's what happens when a chemical compound absorbs light and enters an "excited" state in which the material has a higher electronic energy.
Materials Science
Mar 31, 2016
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A team of quantum physicists at Aalto University led by Dr. Sorin Paraoanu managed to tame a so-called "dark state" created in a superconducting qubit. A superconducting qubit is an artificial atom fabricated on a silicon ...
Quantum Physics
Feb 25, 2016
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Siemens is working with customers in the United States to move generation closer to load sources, increasing distributed energy sources on the grid. Many large energy users – military bases, universities, commercial campuses, ...
Energy & Green Tech
Feb 8, 2016
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