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Light-emitting Diodes: Understanding Factors That Influence Efficiency Of Organic-based Devices
Organic-based devices, such as organic light-emitting diodes, require a transparent conductive layer with a high work function, meaning it promotes injection of electron holes into an organic layer to produce...
Nanoscale Lithographic Technology: Finer Lines For Microchips
Researchers have achieved a significant advance in nanoscale lithographic technology, used in the manufacture of computer chips and other electronic devices, to make finer patterns of lines over larger areas...
Pocket-sized Magnetic Resonance Imaging
The term MRI scan brings to mind the gigantic, expensive machines that are installed in hospitals. But research scientists have now developed small portable MRI scanners that perform their services...
New nanotech research to enhance future digital imaging
A team of researchers from Northeastern`s Electronic Materials Research Institute has published research that has resulted in a new breakthrough in the field of nanophotonics, the study of light at...
Large Solar Energy Array Set for G.M. in Spain
The solar electric system on the roof of a G.M. assembly plant in Spain will be the largest in the world, a thousand times larger than most projects.
New Insight To Demineralization: Amorphous Silica Dissolves By Pathway Similar To Crystals
Researchers explain the dissolution behavior of silica glasses manufactured by different processes, a natural biologically produced silica and a synthetic, dispersed or colloidal silica. Their findings present the basis for...
UW-Madison zero-gravity team finds spray cooling works in space
For the 10th consecutive year, University of Wisconsin-Madison students have found themselves floating upside down over the Gulf of Mexico.
Researchers Develop Breakthrough Antimicrobial Coatings
A team of researchers in Auburn University's Samuel Ginn College of Engineering has produced new antimicrobial coatings with potential to prevent diseases from spreading on contaminated surfaces - possibly solving...
FLASH Imaging Redux: Nano-Cinema is Born
Flash imaging of nanoscale objects undergoing ultrafast changes is now a technical possibility, according to a recent paper published in the June 22 edition of Nature Photonics. The results are...
Toshiba Introduces High Power, High Flux 90 Lumen White LED
Toshiba today announced TL12W02-D, a new high power, high brightness white LED for commercial, residential and industrial lighting applications that can provide a typical flux of 90 lumens (lm) when...
Improving computer memory, solar cells goal of UH chemist
A high-tech breakthrough in solar cells and flash drives may just come down to good old-fashioned pencil and paper calculations, says an award-winning young chemist at the University of Houston.
The Institute of Nuclear Materials Management Celebrates 50th Anniversary
The Institute of Nuclear Materials Management (INMM) will celebrate its 50th anniversary at the INMM 2008 Annual Meeting July 13-17, 2008, at the Nashville Convention Center and Renaissance Nashville Hotel,...
Powering up microwave amplifiers for a wireless world
Four years ago, Europe trailed the rest of the world in microwave amplifier research and development. Now, however, European-designed transistors and amplifiers equal or outperform the competition worldwide. Today`s information-rich,...
Pot Boiler: A New, Faster Way to Heat Water [News]
Many recipes and procedures call for bringing water to a roiling boil--from making the perfect cup of tea to generating electric power. But the bubbles that denote the rapid transformation...
Gold, DNA Mix Could Result in Biological Nano Spies
Gold is valuable to many in copious quantities, but for a team of Duke University scientists, a sub-cellular amount was all that was needed to create a nanostructure which could...
Professors Assist with Nuclear Dismantlement in Iraq
Two Texas Tech researchers involved in the nuclear dismantlement in Iraq speak at ceremony that marks beginning of the remediation process.
Carbon Nanotube Windmills Powered by 'Electron Wind'
Theoretical physicists from Lancaster University in the UK have designed a nanomotor that operates by a novel mechanism: an electron wind.
U.S. and Sweden sign hybrid vehicle pact
GOTLAND, Sweden, July 8 (UPI) -- The U.S. Department of Energy says it and the Swedish Energy Agency have signed an agreement to accelerate consumer acceptance of plug-in...
Mayor quashes £25 C-charge hike
London Mayor Boris Johnson quashes the proposed rise in congestion charge for vehicles deemed high polluters.
Mars Lander Works on New Dirt Sample
Phoenix put second sample in wet chemistry lab, will compare results to first test.
Whales And Dolphins Influence New Wind Turbine Design
By studying the flippers, fins and tails of whales and dolphins, scientists have discovered some features of their structure that contradict long-held engineering theories. These discoveries may have a strong...
Baseball Diamonds: The Lefthander's Best Friend
Baseball diamonds are a left-hander's best friend. That's because the game was designed to make a lefty the "Natural," according to a professor of engineering and uber baseball fan. The...
Study unveils surprise energy transfer
BRISTOL, England, July 8 (UPI) -- British and U.S. physicists say an unexpected form of energy transfer occurs in a two-atom molecule when an incoming atom strikes one...
Rare Microorganism That Produces Hydrogen May Be Key To Tomorrow's Hydrogen Economy
An ancient organism from the pit of a collapsed volcano may hold the key to tomorrow's hydrogen economy. Scientists from across the world have formed a team to unlock the...
SaskPower releases nuclear power studies
Fourteen studies into the viability of nuclear power in Saskatchewan commissioned by SaskPower over the past 36 years were made public by the utility Monday.
Herculean Device for Molecular Mysteries
A special-purpose supercomputer is intended to offer more than a thousandfold increase in performance for complex molecular simulations.
Vital Signs: Patterns: The Sound of Victory?
Does it matter which runner is closest to the starter’s pistol at the beginning of a race? It just might, a new study says.
Is Solar Power Really Practical?
Solar-thermal technology, while promising, is practical only in the sunny Southwest and requires all the expensive infrastructure and transmission lines of standard power plants. Bill Whitaker examines whether it's really...