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New Detector Module Further Enhances the Efficiency of Using Beam Time

Beam time at a neutron instrument is considered to be important – generally, users have just a few days for their measurements. For an experiment, scientists frequently travel from other countries or even continents. They naturally want to make the most use of these days for their research.

4 Dec 2017

New Laser Techniques Could Help Revolutionize Understanding of Neurodegenerative Diseases

Boulder researchers are undertaking a new project to examine the progression of neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's by employing a new laser method to measure neurons firing deep inside animal brains.

4 Dec 2017

Innovative Laser Technology for Melting Ice on Roads

Researchers have projected a unique new solution to deal with unsafe icy roads in winter, putting forward an enhanced, safer method in a paper featured in the 30th Nov, 2017, issue of Applied Spectroscopy Reviews.

1 Dec 2017

New System for Changing the Reactions of a Powerful Chemical Coupling Agent

It is possible for the manufacture of the integrated circuits and chips, used for daily electronic devices, to be made simpler, cheaper and safer by just being able to switch colored light on and off?

1 Dec 2017

Physicists Build Space-Time Sensor to Observe Light-Matter Interactions

An attosecond electron microscope has been developed by physicists from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich, which allows them to visualize the dispersion of light in time and space, and witness the motions of electrons in atoms.

1 Dec 2017

Researchers Bring Optical Computing a Step Closer Reality

Researchers have paved the way for computers that run on light rather than electronics by forcing light to pass through a smaller gap than ever before.

1 Dec 2017

New Microscope Optimized to Perform Studies Using Optogenetic Methods

A new microscope provides researchers with a significantly enhanced tool to explore how neurological disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease and epilepsy affect neuron communication.

30 Nov 2017

Researchers Incorporate Boron into InGaN Layers to Increase LED Efficiency

The problem faced by high-power white light-emitting diodes (LEDs) is the same as that faced by Michigan Stadium on game day, that is, huge numbers of people in a restricted space.

29 Nov 2017

New Microscope Allows the Creation of Wetting Maps for Hydrophobic Surface Characterization

Wetting is considered to be an everyday phenomenon that depoicts how well liquid spreads on a surface. When water comes into contact with an extremely ‘superhydrophobic’ or water-repellent surface, droplets bead up and then roll off effortlessly.

28 Nov 2017

New Approach to Producing More Accurate Images More Quickly Could Aid Diagnostic Medicine

Deep learning, a form of machine learning, is considered to be one of the main technologies behind latest advances in applications such as automated image and video labeling and also real-time speech recognition.

22 Nov 2017

Researchers One Step Closer to Solving the Problems in Designing Organic Diode Lasers

From the year 1962, the time when semiconductor diode lasers were invented, they have dramatically transformed communications and enabled storage and retrieval of information in DVDs, CDs, and Blu-ray disks.

21 Nov 2017

Teledyne DALSA’s Innovative and High Performance CMOS X-Ray Detectors Highlighted at RSNA 2017

Teledyne DALSA, a Teledyne Technologies company and global leader in digital X-Ray image sensing, will display its entire Xineos family of dynamic CMOS flat X-Ray detectors at RSNA 2017, November 26 to December 1, at McC...

From Teledyne DALSA 21 Nov 2017

Harris Team Successfully Completes Cryogenic Testing for NASA's James Webb Space Telescope

The vault-like, 40-foot diameter, 40-ton door of Chamber A at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston was unsealed on November 18, signaling the end of cryogenic testing for NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope.

21 Nov 2017

Scientists Move One Step Closer to Developing Innovative LED Light Source

Since anxiety about changing over to green energy by adapting to renewables and electric vehicles is mounting globally, the energy that we expend, or rather that we do not expend, is as significant as the produced renewable energy.

20 Nov 2017

Diagnosing Tumors and Other Pathologies by Adopting Microspectroscopy

Very similar to the way chemical compositions and mechanical characteristics are basically significant in buildings, the cells constituting living organisms have various disparate characteristics and shapes based their state and function.

17 Nov 2017