News articles tagged with 'detector'
Tiny 'on-chip detectors' count individual photons
— 17 Mar 2011 20:54 | TechnologyA team of researchers has integrated tiny detectors capable of counting individual photons on computer chips. These detectors, called 'single-photon avalanche diodes (SPAD),' act like…
New MIT developments in quantum computing
— 3 Mar 2011 14:08 | TechnologyQuantum computers are computers that exploit the weird properties of matter at extremely small scales. Many experts believe that a full-blown quantum computer could perform calculations…
Hunt for dark matter closes in at Large Hadron Collider
— 1 Feb 2011 21:39 | PhysicsThe scientists have now carried out the first full run of experiments that smash protons together at almost the speed of light. When these sub-atomic particles collide at the heart…
NIST advances single photon management for quantum computers
— 21 Jan 2011 19:59 | TechnologyThe quantum computers of tomorrow might use photons, or particles of light, to move around the data they need to make calculations, but photons are tricky to work with. Two new papers…
Better than the human eye
— 18 Jan 2011 16:23 | TechnologyResearchers from Northwestern University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are the first to develop a curvilinear camera, much like the human eye, with the significant…
New technology to speed cleanup of nuclear contaminated sites
— 4 Jan 2011 21:35 | EnvironmentMembers of the engineering faculty at Oregon State University have invented a new type of radiation detection and measurement device that will be particularly useful for cleanup of…
New ground broken on aggression research
— 8 Dec 2010 18:32 | HealthQuestionnaire results and DNA samples volunteered by a group of University of Alberta students has broken new ground in the study of aggression. U of A Psychology researcher Peter Hurd…
Antihydrogen trapped for first time
— 18 Nov 2010 10:36 | PhysicsPhysicists working at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva, Switzerland, have succeeded in trapping antihydrogen - the antimatter equivalent of the hydrogen…
Nuclear materials detector shows exact location of radiation sources
— 5 Nov 2010 13:09 | TechnologyA table-top gamma-ray detector created at the University of Michigan can not only identify the presence of dangerous nuclear materials, but can pinpoint and show their exact location…
NPL builds long range alpha detector
— 2 Nov 2010 14:00 | TechnologyThe UK's National Physical Laboratory (NPL) has developed a new portable radiation detector that can assess the safety of potentially contaminated areas far quicker than current methods.…