Monday, May 23, 2011

Novel Artificial Material Could Facilitate Wireless Power

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This advance is made possible by the recent ability to fabricate exotic composite materials known as metamaterials, which are not so much a ...
Sunday, May 22, 2011

Exploring the Superconducting Transition in Ultra Thin Films

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"Understanding exactly what happens when a normally insulating copper-oxide material transitions from the insulating to the superconduc...
Saturday, May 21, 2011

New Solar Cell Technology Greatly Boosts Efficiency

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The technology substantially overcomes the problem of poor transport of charges generated by solar photons. These charges -- negative electr...
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Friday, May 20, 2011

Toward Optical Computing in Handheld Electronics: Graphene Optical Modulators Could Lead to Ultrafast Communications

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The team of researchers, led by UC Berkeley engineering professor Xiang Zhang, built a tiny optical device that uses graphene, a one-atom-th...
Thursday, May 19, 2011

Scientists Achieve Guiding of Electrons by Purely Electric Fields

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The research is published online in Physical Review Letters . This new technique of electron guiding -- which resembles the guiding of light...
Wednesday, May 18, 2011

What Electric Car Convenience Is Worth

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Results of one study show the electric car attributes that are most important for consumers: driving range, fuel cost savings and charging t...
Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Pairing Quantum Dots With Fullerenes for Nanoscale Photovoltaics

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"This is the first demonstration of a hybrid inorganic/organic, dimeric (two-particle) material that acts as an electron donor-bridge-a...