News articles tagged with 'electron'
Rejuvenating electron microscopy
— 6 Apr 2011 15:49 | BiologyModifying a protein from a plant much favoured by science, researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and colleagues have created a new type of genetic…
Heavy metals open path to high temperature nanomagnets
— 29 Mar 2011 15:43 | TechnologyHow would you like to store all the films ever made on a device the size of an I-phone? Magnets made of just a few metallic atoms could make it possible to build radically smaller storage…
Enhancing the magnetism
— 19 Mar 2011 14:49 | Physics'The nation that controls magnetism will control the universe,' famed fictional detective Dick Tracy predicted back in 1935. Probably an overstatement, but there's little doubt the…
Is space like a chessboard?
— 19 Mar 2011 14:14 | PhysicsPhysicists at UCLA set out to design a better transistor and ended up discovering a new way to think about the structure of space…
Berkeley Lab scientists control light scattering in graphene
— 17 Mar 2011 20:09 | TechnologyScientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California at Berkeley have learned to control the quantum pathways…
All wrapped up: K-State researcher's graphene cloak protects bacteria, leading to better images
— 15 Mar 2011 20:50 | TechnologyIt's a cloak that surpasses all others: a microscopic carbon cloak made of graphene that could change the way bacteria and other cells are imaged…
New microscope decodes complex eye circuitry
— 10 Mar 2011 18:11 | BiologyThe sensory cells in the retina of the mammalian eye convert light stimuli into electrical signals and transmit them via downstream interneurones to the retinal ganglion cells which,…
Ultra fast photodetectors out of carbon nanotubes
— 8 Mar 2011 14:56 | TechnologyCarbon nanotubes have a multitude of unusual properties which make them promising candidates for optoelectronic components. However, so far it has proven extremely difficult to analyse…
JQI physicists demonstrate coveted 'spin-orbit coupling' in atomic gases
— 3 Mar 2011 14:17 | PhysicsPhysicists at the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI), a collaboration of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Maryland-College Park, have for the…
Smallest magnetic field sensor in the world
— 22 Feb 2011 23:21 | TechnologyFurther development of modern information technology requires computer capacities of increased efficiency at reasonable costs. In the past, integration density of the relevant electronic…