When heating a platinum layer on nanometer scales, heat can be transferred by hot electrons through a copper layer into a nickel layer without significantly heating the copper in between. This unusual form of heat transport was discovered by a re...
Oct 1, 2020
D-Wave Systems has released a Quantum Annealer with over 5000 qubits. They have over 250 applications that can be run on the system. The chip uses over 1 million superconducting Josephson junctions. Venture Capitalist billionaire, Steve Jurvetson,...
Oct 1, 2020
Britain has sent two satellites into space that are smaller than a microwave, yet are the smartest ever produced by the UK. On September 28, 2020 at 12:20 pm BST, four Glasgow-built Spire nanosatellites lifted off atop a Russian Soyuz launcher, tw...
Oct 1, 2020
Nanoparticles are valuable and useful in many products, but according to a new study, they can also damage our cells. Researchers are concerned about the effect of lifelong exposure to the human organism.
Oct 1, 2020
Researchers developed a new class of broadband solid state light emitter in the short-wave infrared that could be miniaturized, integrated with CMOS technology and used for many applications including food inspection, health or safety.
Sep 30, 2020
Researchers have developed a graphene-based bolometer that can detect microwave photons at extremely high sensitivities and with fast time responses.
Sep 30, 2020
Totally safe, self-charging batteries that generate power for thousands of years ... It's an exciting thought, and when we wrote about California's NDB in August, the story generated all kinds of feedback. A lot of people felt some of ND...
Sep 30, 2020
Bolometers are devices that measure the power of incident electromagnetic radiation thru the heating of materials, which exhibit a temperature-electric resistance dependence. These instruments are among the most sensitive detectors so far used for...
Sep 30, 2020
Broadband light emission in the infrared has proven to be of paramount importance for a large range of applications that include food quality and product/process monitoring, recycling, environmental sensing and monitoring, multispectral imaging in...
Sep 30, 2020
A variety of nanoparticles are designed for targeted drug delivery, but unfortunately only a very small proportion of the injected nanoparticles reach the target site such as solid tumors. The reason behind the low targeting efficiency is often co...
Sep 30, 2020
