Friday 21 June 2013

The room temperature tunnelling behaviour of boron nitride (BN) nanotubes has ...

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Electrons flash across a series of gold quantum dots on boron nitride nanotubes. Michigan Tech scientists made the quantum-tunnelling device, which acts like a transistor at room temperature, without using semiconducting materials. (credit: Yoke Khin Yap)

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Single molecule transistor to usher new era of technology

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The molecular computer chip is a sandwich built with one layer of gold, one of molecular components and one of the extremely thin carbon material graphene. The molecular transistor in the sandwich is switched on and of using a light impulse so one of ...

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New Graphene sensor holds promise of better low light images and lower cost

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NTU said graphene, the world's hardest material (tougher than diamonds) is a million times smaller than the thickest human hair (only one-atom thick) and is made of pure carbon atoms arranged in a honeycomb structure. It is known to have a high ...

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NASA Announces Winners of 2012 George M. Low Award for Quality

Two companies that share a commitment to teamwork, technical and managerial excellence, safety, and customer service have been selected to receive NASA's premier honor for quality and performance, the George M. Low Award.

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Plants 'seen doing quantum physics'

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Until very recently, quantum mechanics - a frequently arcane branch of physics most often probed in laboratory settings at the coldest temperatures and lowest pressures - would not have been expected in biological settings. The fact that plants and ...

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Energy for sustainable science



CERN, the European Association of National Research Facilities (ERF), and the European Spallation Source (ESS), announce the second joint workshop on Energy for Sustainable Science at Research Infrastructures. The event will take place at CERN on 23-25 October 2013.


The first edition of the workshop was held in 2011 in Lund, Sweden, where the European Spallation Source is under construction. This event - the first fully dedicated to energy management in research centres - attracted more than 150 people interested in sharing energy-management policies in large-scale laboratories and organizations, in particular those policies relating to the design and operation of accelerators.


“Thanks to the experience gained two years ago, the programme of this edition has been enriched to cover more topics and to identify best practices,” says Frédérick Bordry, head of CERN’s Technology department. “In addition to the organizing research facilities, other worldwide leading laboratories, like KEK, Fermilab and Brookhaven National Laboratory will present their strategies for energy management, efficiency and sustainability.”


Around 300 experts are expected to come to CERN to exchange knowledge in the fields of energy efficiency in computing centres, procurement and financing of energy and development and management of sustainable campus. A session of the workshop will be dedicated to green technologies developed in large-scale research infrastructures.


Registration for the workshop is now open.





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BBC News Plantsseen doing quantum physics - BBC.com

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The idea that plants make use of quantum physics to harvest light more efficiently ... Until very recently quantum mechanics a frequently arcane branch of ...

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New step towards silicon-based quantum computer | KurzweilAI

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(Credit: University of New South Wales) Researchers at the University of New South Wales have proposed a new way to distinguish between quantum bits that.

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Ferroelectric-graphene-based system could lead to improved information ...

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The team's initial proof-of-concept device uses a small piece of graphene sandwiched between two layers of the ferroelectric material to make simple, switchable plasmonic waveguides. This work used lithium niobate, but many other such materials could ...

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