Analyzing Resistance to Impacts and Improving Armor Plating
Madrid, Spain (SPX) Jun 03, 2014 -
New pneumatic launchers at the Impact on Aeronautical Structures Laboratory, located at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) Science Park, make it possible to carry out a wide range of studies on problems of impact that arise in the aeronautics industry and on optimum armor plating in other sectors.
At these specialized facilities, which are linked to the UC3M-Airbus Group Joint Cen ...
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Graphene's multi-colored butterflies
Manchester, UK (SPX) Jun 03, 2014 -
Writing in Nature Physics, a large international team led by Dr Artem Mishchenko and Sir Andre Geim from The University of Manchester shows that the electronic properties of graphene change dramatically if graphene is placed on top of boron nitride, also known as 'white graphite'.
One of the major challenges for using graphene in electronics applications is the absence of a band gap, which ...
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Suntech's Modules Receives Top Quality Ranking by VDE Institute
Wuxi, China (SPX) Jun 03, 2014 -
Wuxi Suntech has announced its modules have received the VDE Quality-Tested certification, attesting that the quality of Suntech modules exceed existing industry standards. Suntech is only the third brand globally to receive this quality ranking.
"We are honored to have our modules recognized by the VDE Institute, one of the world's leading testing and certification institutes," said Sunte ...
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Toronto physicists take quantum leap toward ultra-precise measurement
Toronto, Canada (SPX) Jun 03, 2014 -
For the first time, physicists at the University of Toronto (U of T) have overcome a major challenge in the science of measurement using quantum mechanics. Their work paves the way for great advances in using quantum states to enable the next generation of ultra-precise measurement technologies.
"We've been able to conduct measurements using photons - individual particles of light - at a r ...
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Here come the 'brobots'
Washington DC (SPX) Jun 03, 2014 -
A team of researchers at the University of Twente (Netherlands) and German University in Cairo (Egypt) has developed sp*rm-inspired microrobots, which can be controlled by oscillating weak magnetic fields.
Described in a cover article in the journal Applied Physics Letters, which is from AIP Publishing, the 322 micron-long robots consist solely of a head coated in a thick cobalt-nickel lay ...
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Nano world: Where towers construct themselves
Vienna, Austria (SPX) Jun 03, 2014 -
Imagine a tower builds itself into the desired structure only by choosing the appropriate bricks. Absurd - and however, in the nano world this is reality: There an unordered crowd of components can initiate the formation of an ordered structure - a process known as self-assembly.
The physicists Christos Likos (University of Vienna), Emanuela Bianchi and Gerhard Kahl (both Vienna University ...
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Controlling Complex Systems Comprising Many Quantum Particles
Vienna, Austria (SPX) Jun 05, 2014 -
At TU Vienna, a new method was developed to utilize quantum mechanical vibrations for high precision measurements. The well-known concept of the Ramsey interferometer is applied to a complex multi particle system consisting of hundreds of atoms. Sometimes quantum particles behave like waves. This phenomenon is often used for high precision measurements, for instance in atomic clocks.
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