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A Better Device to Detect Ultraviolet Light

October 17, 2013

WASHINGTON, D.C. Sept. 20, 2013 — Researchers in Japan have developed a new photodiode that can detect in just milliseconds a certain type of high-energy ultraviolet light, […]

Ultraviolet Light to the Extreme

October 17, 2013

WASHINGTON, D.C. Oct. 4, 2013 — When you heat a tiny droplet of liquid tin with a laser, plasma forms on the surface of the droplet and […]

Quantum Conductors Benefit from Growth on Smooth Foundations

October 17, 2013

WASHINGTON D.C. Oct. 11, 2013 — Imagine if the “information superhighway” had HOV lanes so that data could be stored, processed and disseminated many times faster than […]

To Touch the Microcosmos

September 13, 2013

WASHINGTON, D.C. Sept. 13, 2013 — What if you could reach through a microscope to touch and feel the microscopic structures under the lens? In a breakthrough […]

The “50-50” Chip: Memory Device of the Future?

September 13, 2013

WASHINGTON, D.C. Sept. 13, 2013 — A new, environmentally-friendly electronic alloy consisting of 50 aluminum atoms bound to 50 atoms of antimony may be promising for building […]

Simulating Flow from Volcanoes and Oil Spills

September 11, 2013

WASHINGTON D.C. August 12, 2013 — Some time around 37,000 BCE a massive volcano erupted in the Campanian region of Italy, blanketing much of Europe with ash, […]

Indiana Jones Meets George Jetson

September 6, 2013

WASHINGTON, D.C. Sept. 6, 2013 — A team of researchers from Uppsala University in Sweden has designed a microplasma source capable of exciting matter in a controlled, […]

Growing Thin Films of Germanium

September 6, 2013

WASHINGTON, D.C. Sept. 6, 2013 — Researchers have developed a new technique to produce thin films of germanium crystals — key components for next-generation electronic devices such […]