Progress in nanoscience and nanotechnology depends not only on examining the surfaces of materials but on microscopically examining biological organisms and material structures to identify what they are made of and what electronic, magnetic, optical, and chemical processes may be in play.
Using concentrated solar energy to reverse combustion, a research team from Sandia National Laboratories has built a prototype device intended to chemically “reenergize” carbon dioxide into carbon monoxide using concentrated solar power.
In a precedent-shattering demonstration of the potential of laser-wakefield acceleration, scientists at the United States Department of Energy's (DOE’s) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, working with colleagues at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom, have accelerated electron beams to energies exceeding a billion electron volts (1 GeV) in a distance of just 3.3 centimeters.
Article updated on 03/03/20 by Ben Pilkington
Harnessing the work in gravitational microlensing, supercomputer modeling and adaptive optics pioneered at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) at the University of California, Berkeley (United States), scientists have discovered two new planets in a solar system very much like our own.
A collaboration led by researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has used molecular vibrations, triggered by ultrafast pulses of terahertz radiation, to change a manganite crystal from an electrical insulator into a conductor.
In recent years, researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have overcome a major difficulty for using refractive lenses to focus x-rays.
There are few laser-based light sources brighter than T-REX, a Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) project developed jointly by the NIF & Photon Science Principal Directorate and Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s (ORNL) Physical Sciences Directorate.
An engineering research team from the University of Utah (United States) has recently developed a new generation of camera lenses that are almost completely flat and offer the possibility for broadband long-wave infrared (LWIR) imaging.
By Ben Pilkington
3 Mar 2020
A bio-friendly nano-sized light source capable of emitting coherent light across the visible spectrum has been invented by a team of researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and the University of California at Berkeley.
Liquid crystal displays do not generate light. Think of them as an array of blinds that allow light through when open and not when closed.