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Progress report: Plasmon spasers

News: Nanotechnology    January 14, 2011
It’s almost commonplace in technology that when there seem to be limits, somebody will figure out a way to exceed them. In a way, Moore’s Law about the seemingly never ending increase in the power of computer processors is built on constantly – somehow – extending the limits. That’s also, apparently, the situation for lasers. [...]
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Super-photon: A Bose-Einstein condensate with practical potential

News: Quantum Physics    November 29, 2010
Illustrated super-photon….Credit: Jan Klaers, University of Bonn Is it time to start investing in Bose-Einstein condensates? They’re not dew drops, of course. Anything with ‘Einstein’ in it has got to be physics. So what kind of condensate is this, and what makes it (potentially) useful? The concept of Bose-Einstein condensates, often abbreviated BEC, was theorized [...]
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Two Notable Space Successes

News: Space Exploration    July 15, 2010
Concerning space missions, there’s always something happening in space. Most of it is ‘routine’ in the sense that what happens was expected and a normal part of the mission. Re-supply of the International Space Station generally falls into that category (except a couple of weeks ago when the resupply vehicle missed the station on the [...]
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Using artificial photosynthesis (in a virus) to split water

Impact: Synthetic Biology    April 11, 2010
In general, SciTechStory doesn’t start tracking a technology that’s (a) incomplete in implementation and (b) many years from application (if ever). Maybe this one is an exception: Using a virus to support artificial photosynthesis that splits water into oxygen and hydrogen. It sounds pretty strange (not that this is a qualification for coverage herein), but [...]
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Graphene in a communications context

News: Communications    April 11, 2010
News stories about using graphene in computers appear all the time. Less often, there are stories about graphene used in communications. This will probably change. Graphene is carbon, a specific form of carbon related to graphite (as in the lead of pencils). Graphene is graphite in sheets, very thin sheets precisely one carbon atom thick. [...]
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