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Beryllium Doping of Gallium Nitride Shown to Offer Promise for Higher Efficiency in Power Electronics
Nov 15, 2017Working with scientists in Texas and Warsaw, researchers at Finland’s Aalto University have made a breakthrough in revising methods largely discarded 15 years ago (‘Amphoteric Be in GaN: Experimental Evidence for Switching ...
Tags: GaN Power electronics
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Researchers Has Used World's Most Powerful X-Ray Laser to Take Snapshots of Free Molecules
Mar 6, 2014An international team of researchers has used the world's most powerful X-ray laser to take snapshots of free molecules. The research team headed by Prof. Jochen Küpper of the Hamburg Center for Free-Electron Laser Science (CFEL) ...
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The National Nanotechnology Initiative Defines Nanotechnology as The Understanding
Mar 6, 2014The National Nanotechnology Initiative defines nanotechnology as the understanding and control of matter at the nanoscale, at dimensions of approximately 1 and 100 nanometers, where unique phenomena enable novel applications. Nanotechnology ...
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Method Called Spectrum Imaging Can Be Used to Measure Atom Concentrations
Mar 6, 2014The ability to locate and count small numbers of impurity atoms could lead to advances in modern electronics and optical fiber communication networks. In research published today in Physical Review Letters, physicists from Monash ...
Tags: Spectrum Imaging, Measure Atom Concentrations, Atomic Resolution
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Combination Is Key to a Material's Ability to Efficiently Converting Heat to Electricity
Feb 27, 2014lllustration: University of Colorado Boulder Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder have developed a model of a thermoelectric material that can insulate itself from heat transfers while still allowing electricity to flow. Such ...
Tags: Nanopillars, Thermoelectric Material, conducting electricity, voltage
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New Research Has LED to The Discovery of a New Material
Feb 27, 2014New research led by University of Nebraska-Lincoln chemist Xiao Cheng Zeng has led to the discovery of a new material that could have significant implications for a variety of challenges, from carbon dioxide storage to planetary science and ...
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Topological Insulators Are The Key to Future Spintronics Technologies
Feb 26, 2014Topological insulators are the key to future spintronics technologies. EPFL scientists have unraveled how these strange materials work, overcoming one of the biggest obstacles on the way to next-generation applications. Spintronics is an ...
Tags: EPFL, Future Electronic, Material, Physical Review Letters
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Two Teams, Both in Singapore Have Created Two Different Types of Thermal Cloaking Devices
Feb 26, 2014Two teams, both in Singapore have created two different types of thermal cloaking devices. In their papers, both published in Physical Review Letters, the teams describe how they went about creating their devices and offer suggestions as to ...
Tags: Heat Cloaking Device, Physical Review Letter, heat diffusion
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Quantum Mechanics Offers The Potential for Creating Communication Technologies
Feb 18, 2014Quantum mechanics offers the potential for creating communication technologies with an inherently higher security level than today's classical technologies. Using quantum digital signatures (QDS), for example, messages can be sent to ...
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Physicists Challenges The Limits by Measuring Quantum Particles
Feb 14, 2014A team of physicists is challenging the very limits of Heisenberg's famous uncertainty principle by measuring quantum particles with unprecedented accuracy. Physicists from The University of Queensland have performed joint measurements on ...
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Remarkable Defect in Synthetic Diamond Produced Allows Researchers to Measure
Feb 14, 2014New research shows that a remarkable defect in synthetic diamond produced by chemical vapor deposition allows researchers to measure, witness, and potentially manipulate electrons in a manner that could lead to new "quantum technology" for ...
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Researchers Have Made The World's Tiniest Light-Emitting Diode
Feb 13, 2014By coaxing light out of a single polymer molecule, researchers have made the world's tiniest light-emitting diode. This work is part of an interdisciplinary effort to make molecular scale electronic devices, which hold the potential for ...
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory Provids Insight That Could Lead to Better Superconductors
Feb 8, 2014Nearly 30 years after the discovery of high-temperature superconductivity, many questions remain, but an Oak Ridge National Laboratory team is providing insight that could lead to better superconductors. Their work, published in Physical ...
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Nanotechnology Is a Thriving Science
Feb 8, 2014Nanotechnology is a thriving science. Parts for computers for example are becoming smaller and more precise by the minute. One of the most efficient computers would be the so-called quantum computer. Up to now, its existence has been merely ...
Tags: LED, LCD-display, STM, ZnO
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Unwanted Side Effect of The Lasers They Use-The Photo Bleaching Advantage
Jan 15, 2014Biomedical engineer Lihong Wang, PhD, and researchers in his lab work with lasers used in photoacoustic imaging for early-cancer detection and a close look at biological tissue. But sometimes there are limitations to what they can do, and ...
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