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Scientists Measure Photoelectric Effect in Graphene Using New Technology

Scientists at the Vienna University of Technology (TU Vienna) designed light-detectors from graphene and analyzed their special features. Scientists at the TU Vienna are closely studying graphene’s optical and electronic properties.

28 Jun 2011

Research Team Observes Spin Quantum-Jumps with Single Trapped Proton and Anti-Proton

A team of researchers from the Helmholtz Institute Mainz (HIM) and the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) along with their colleagues from Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg and GSI Helmholtz Center for Heavy Ion Research, Darmstadt, measured the magnetic properties of a single proton. For the first time, they observed spin quantum-jumps of a trapped proton.

27 Jun 2011

Stanford Researchers Develop Underwater Microphone Using Silicon Chip to Measure Oceanic Sounds

Stanford researchers have designed an underwater microphone with high-sensitivity that can capture a wide range of sounds in the ocean.

27 Jun 2011

Georgia Tech Engineers Design High-Resolution Microspectrometer

Georgia Institute of Technology engineers have designed a new microspectrometer with high resolution and wide bandwidth.

22 Jun 2011

Agilent Expands European Market with Sale of NMR/MRI Systems to Adam Mickiewicz University

The Adam Mickiewicz University in Poland has purchased magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) systems and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectrometers from the global measurement company, Agilent Technologies.

From Agilent Technologies Inc. 22 Jun 2011

University of Warsaw Installs Microscopic Semiconductor Structure Fabrication Equipment

University of Warsaw’s Faculty of Physics has installed focused ion beam (FIB) milling equipment that can produce micropillars, which are microscopic semiconductor structures from numerous cautiously selected layers having a nanoscale thickness.

22 Jun 2011

Taiwan Researchers Manufacture Nano-LEDs on Tips of SNOM Probes

Physicists from National Tsing-Hua University in Hsinchu,Taiwan have created light-emitting diodes (LEDs) at nanoscale dimensions that release light across the visible spectrum.

20 Jun 2011

Avto Metals Reveals Features of Patented Quantum Interference Transistor

Avto Metals has revealed important features of its novel patented Avto Quantum Transistor (AQT) which has the capability of modulating an electrical signal by utilizing the tunneling electron to destructively or constructively interrupt with the electron wave function in a gate material.

16 Jun 2011

Taiwan-Based LED Manufacturer Places Order for Veeco’s MOCVD System

Veeco Instruments has declared that Taiwan-based Formosa Epitaxy (FOREPI) and its Chinese affliate, Jiangsu Canyang, have placed a bulk order for Veeco’s MaxBright Multi-Reactor MOCVD System that produces high-brightness light-emitting diodes (HB LEDs).

From Veeco 15 Jun 2011

Quantum Dot Laser on Silicon Prevents Dislocation in Crystal Structure

Researchers in the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at UCL have collaborated with the London Centre for Nanotechnology to introduce silicon-based information technology solutions at high speeds.

14 Jun 2011