JILA scientists have boosted the sensitivity of their decade-old frequency comb breathalyzer a thousandfold and can detect additional biomarkers of disease—four now, with the potential for six more. When validated and engineered ...
Analytical Chemistry
Oct 4, 2021
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JILA physicists and collaborators have demonstrated the first next-generation "time scale"—a system that incorporates data from multiple atomic clocks to produce a single highly accurate timekeeping signal for distribution. ...
Quantum Physics
Oct 21, 2019
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JILA physicists have extended the capability of their powerful laser "combing" technique to identify the structures of large, complex molecules of the sort found in explosives, pharmaceuticals, fuels and the gases around ...
Optics & Photonics
May 4, 2016
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JILA researchers have designed a microscope instrument so stable that it can accurately measure the 3D movement of individual molecules over many hours—hundreds of times longer than the current limit measured inseconds.
Optics & Photonics
Jul 1, 2015
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Crowding has notoriously negative effects at large size scales, blamed for everything from human disease and depression to community resource shortages. But relatively little is known about the influence of crowding at the ...
Cell & Microbiology
May 21, 2014
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(PhysOrg.com) -- JILA researchers have developed a laser-based source of terahertz radiation that is unusually efficient and less prone to damage than similar systems. The technology might be useful in applications such as ...
Optics & Photonics
Jan 19, 2011
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Scientists at JILA and collaborators have demonstrated an improved laser-based "molecular fingerprinting" technique that picks out traces of key hydrogen-containing and other molecules from a billion other particles in a ...
Optics & Photonics
Oct 14, 2010
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