Posts Tagged «electrons»
ExtremeTech explains: How do solar cells work? July 20, 2015 at 11:15 am
Find out how solar cells power a good portion of homes today — and how they might power virtually everything in the future.
ExtremeTech explains: What is superconductivity, and when will we all get maglev trains and unlimited electrical power? June 23, 2015 at 10:09 am
Superconductivity has the potential to change the human relationship with electricity. But how? And what might that mean for the future?
6 things you may not know about holography May 23, 2015 at 9:00 am
Even though it was invented over 70 years ago, holography remains the best candidate for achieving true 3D displays. Here we present six things you may not know about the strange and wonderful world of holography.
Quantum signatures of electronic transport in graphene discovered May 21, 2015 at 12:23 pm
Researchers at MIT and elsewhere have recently figured out not only how to build precisely defined bandgaps into composites of graphene and boron nitride, they uncovered the deeper electronic structure of the material and found that it contains some of the most fascinating physics known.
Researchers enhance spintronics using graphene April 10, 2015 at 3:00 pm
New research suggests that graphene could overcome some of the problems with building spintronic devices, opening the doors to vastly faster processors and better power consumption in the long term.
Scientists are about to use supernova cosmic rays to peer inside the most dangerous room in the world: Fukushima July 28, 2014 at 11:52 am
Scientists at the Los Alamos National Laboratory will be using one of the universe’s most energetic fundamental particles to image the destruction inside Fukushima’s reactor core.
Einsteinian error: The 25-year-old supernova that could change the speed of light forever June 24, 2014 at 12:02 pm
A new analysis of 25-year-old evidence may show that we’ve been wrong about the speed of light in a vacuum – and if true, that’s big news for astronomers.
Scientists work out how create matter from light, to finally prove Einstein’s E=mc2 May 20, 2014 at 1:38 pm
Physicists in England claim they have discovered how to create matter from light, by smashing together individual massless photons — a feat that was first theorized back in 1934, and has been considered practically impossible until now. If this new discovery pans out, the final piece of the physics jigsaw puzzle that describes how light and matter interact would be complete. No one’s quite sure of the repercussions if matter can indeed be produced from photon-photon collision, but I’m sure something awesomely scientific will emerge before long.
Newly discovered element 117 is a step toward useful super-heavy elements May 5, 2014 at 4:50 pm
The newest, heaviest element has been confirmed under laboratory conditions, and its synthesis could help produce even heavier cousins with all-new useful properties.
Graphene ‘spaser’ brings optical computing to the nano-scale April 18, 2014 at 11:31 am
A graphene-based “spaser” could allow extreme miniaturization of computing, and bring lasers to a scale never seen before.