News articles tagged with 'electrons'
From graphene to graphane, now the possibilities are endless
— 1 Aug 2009 16:45 | TechnologyEver since graphene was discovered in 2004, this one-atom thick, super strong, carbon-based electrical conductor has been billed as a 'wonder material' that some physicists think could... — full story
NIST scientists study how to stack the deck for organic solar power
— 29 Jul 2009 19:23 | TechnologyA new class of economically viable solar power cells - cheap, flexible and easy to make - has come a step closer to reality as a result of recent work at the National Institute of Standards... — full story
New microbe strain makes more electricity, faster
— 29 Jul 2009 17:16 | BiologyIn their most recent experiments with Geobacter, the sediment-loving microbe whose hairlike filaments help it to produce electric current from mud and wastewater, Derek Lovley and colleagues... — full story
NRL's Large Area Telescope explores high-energy particles
— 28 Jul 2009 20:13 | AstronomyNASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is making some exciting discoveries about cosmic rays and the Large Area Telescope aboard Fermi is the tool in this investigation. Scientists... — full story
Nanopillars promise cheap, efficient, flexible solar cells
— 10 Jul 2009 15:43 | TechnologyResearchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California at Berkeley have demonstrated a way to fabricate efficient solar... — full story
Study gives clues to increasing X-rays' power
— 16 Jun 2009 12:22 | TechnologyThree-dimensional, real-time X-ray images of patients could be closer to reality because of research recently completed by scientists at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln and a pair... — full story
Caltech scientists use high-pressure 'alchemy' to create nonexpanding metals
— 16 Jun 2009 00:28 | TechnologyBy squeezing a typical metal alloy at pressures hundreds of thousands of times greater than normal atmospheric pressure, scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech)... — full story
Scientists break light modulation speed record - twice
— 15 Jun 2009 21:45 | TechnologyResearchers have constructed a light-emitting transistor that has set a new record with a signal-processing modulation speed of 4.3 gigahertz, breaking the previous record of 1.7 gigahertz... — full story
Thinnest superconducting metal created
— 9 Jun 2009 11:43 | TechnologyA superconducting sheet of lead only two atoms thick, the thinnest superconducting metal layer ever created, has been developed by physicists at The University of Texas at Austin... — full story
Evidence of macroscopic quantum tunnelling detected in nanowires
— 28 May 2009 14:12 | TechnologyA team of researchers at the University of Illinois has demonstrated that, counter to classical Newtonian mechanics, an entire collection of superconducting electrons in an ultrathin... — full story