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NIST light source illuminates fusion power diagnostics
10-11-2007 · EurekAlert!Using a device that can turn a tiny piece of laboratory space into an ion cloud as hot as those found in a nuclear fusion reactor, physicists at NIST are helping to develop one of the most exotic 'yardsticks' on earth, an instrument to monitor conditions in the plasma of an experimental reactor.
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- Cluster – new insights into the electric circuits of polar lights
02-09-2007 · European Space Agency (ESA)
Giant electrical circuits power the magical open-air light show of the auroras, forming arcs in high-latitude regions like Scandinavia. New results obtained thanks to ESA's Cluster satellites provide a new insight into the source of the difference between the two types of electrical circuits currently known to be associated to the auroral arcs.
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- Cluster -- new insights into the electric circuits of polar lights
02-09-2007 · EurekAlert!
Giant electrical circuits power the magical open-air light show of the auroras, forming arcs in high-latitude regions like Scandinavia. New results obtained thanks to ESA's Cluster satellites provide a new insight into the source of the difference between the two types of electrical circuits currently known to be associated to the auroral arcs.
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- A Boost For Solar Cells With Photon Fusion
10-13-2006 · ScienceDaily
Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz have developed a process with which longwave light from a normal light source can be converted to shortwave light.
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- A boost for solar cells with photon fusion
10-13-2006 · EurekAlert!
Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz have developed a process with which longwave light from a normal light source can be converted to shortwave light.
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- UCF researchers' breakthrough may help industry create more powerful computer chips
10-11-2006 · EurekAlert!
The successful use of EUV light by optics professor Martin Richardson marks a milestone in an industry-wide effort to create the most efficient and cost-effective power source for the next generation of chip production.
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- MIT sculpts 3-D particles with light
12-03-2007 · EurekAlert!
MIT engineers have used ultraviolet light to sculpt three-dimensional microparticles that could have many applications in medical diagnostics and tissue engineering. For example, they could be designed to act as probes to detect certain molecules, such as DNA, or to release drugs or nutrients.
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- Molecules of positronium observed in the laboratory for the first time
09-12-2007 · EurekAlert!
Physicists at UC-Riverside have created molecular positronium, an entirely new object in the laboratory. Briefly stable, each molecule is made up of a pair of electrons and a pair of positrons. David Cassidy and Allen Mills made the molecules by firing positrons into a film of porous silica. The research paves the way for studying multi-positronium interactions and could one day help develop fusion power generation and directed energy weapons such as gamma-ray lasers.
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- Variable light illuminates the distribution of picophytoplankton
12-18-2007 · EurekAlert!
Tiny photosynthetic plankton less than a millionth of a millimeter in diameter numerically dominate marine phytoplankton. Their photosynthesis uses light to drive carbon dioxide uptake, fueling the marine food web over vast areas of the oceans. A new study published in this week's PLoS ONE by postdoctoral researcher Dr. Christophe Six and a team of scientists from MountAllison University, Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada, illuminates how the environment regulates the distributions of these ecologically important species.
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- Strontium atomic clock demonstrates super-fine 'ticks'
11-30-2006 · EurekAlert!
Using an ultra-stable laser to manipulate strontium atoms trapped in a "lattice" made of light, scientists at JILA (a joint institute of NIST and the University of Colorado at Boulder) have demonstrated the capability to produce the most precise "ticks" ever recorded in an optical atomic clock—techniques that may be useful in time keeping, precision measurements of high frequencies, and quantum computers using neutral atoms as bits of information.
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- NIST's stretching exercises shed new light on nanotubes
04-12-2007 · EurekAlert!
Stretching a carbon nanotube composite like taffy, researchers at NIST and the Rochester Institute of Technology have made some of the first measurements of how single-walled carbon nanotubes both scatter and absorb polarized light, a key optical and electronic property.
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