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Build Your Own Muon Detector
The pocket-sized device can be assembled with common electrical parts at a cost of about $100.
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New Ingestible Sensor Can Detect Movement in the GI Tract
Researchers from MIT and Brigham and Women’s Hospital have built a flexible sensor that can be rolled up and swallowed.
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PIN vs. APD: Different Sensitivity, Different Applications
The main advantage of the APD is that it has a greater level of sensitivity compared to PIN. The avalanche action increases the gain of the diode many times, providing much higher sensitivity.
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New Parts for Old: Cost-Competitive and Comparable to OEM Equipment
Radwell International offers another, more cost-effective option for manufacturers: Radwell verified substitutes. These high-quality new product replacements can be substituted for the original manufacturer’s item at a considerable savings.
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Physicists Discover Why Thin Carbon Nanotubes Have Metallic Conductivity
An international team of researchers has examined the optical and dielectric properties of thin, macroscopic films. These films are based on single-walled carbon nanotubes.
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How Your Computer Actually Creates Color
The key lies in millions of individual groupings of tiny red, green and blue subpixel elements of varying intensities arrayed across a monitor.
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New Supercapacitor Has 100 Times More Energy Storage
Mouser Electronics is now stocking the DMH Series supercapacitor from Murata.
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New Robot Measures Plant Growth at the Cellular Level
Plant scientists have developed a new tool called an automated confocal micro-extensometer (ACME). It allows scientists to measure spatial variation in the mechanical properties of plant cells with unprecedented accuracy.
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Researchers Test Artificial Photosynthesis to Use Renewable Energy to Convert Carbon Dioxide
A new catalyst created by U of T Engineering researchers brings them one step closer to artificial photosynthesis — a system that, just like plants, would use renewable energy to convert carbon dioxide (CO2) into stored chemical energy.
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New Method to Write Magnetic Info Could Lead to Hardware Neural Networks
Researchers have shown how to write a magnetic pattern onto nanowires, which could help computers mimic how the brain processes information.
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Researchers Discover Nanoparticles Could Allow for Faster and Better Medicine
Gold nanoparticles could make drugs act more quickly and effectively, according to new research conducted at the State University of New York at Binghamton.
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New Material Increases Electronics Efficiency
Electronic devices like computers generate heat that mostly goes to waste. Physicists at Bielefeld University have found a way to use this energy.
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Method for Recycling Waste Energy with 2D Electron Gas Developed
A new approach utilizes high-mobility, 2D electron gas to boost thermoelectric conversion efficiency. More than 60 percent of the energy produced by fossil fuels is lost as heat.
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Glass Microparticles Developed to Strengthen Solar Cell Efficiency
Scientists from ITMO University have suggested a new solar cell coating that combines features of an electrode and those of a light-trapping structure.
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New Imaging Technique Allows Scientists to View the Inside of Living Cells
Researchers have developed a novel, non-invasive imaging system that makes it possible to view the sub-cellular architecture of live cells at nanometer-scale resolution.
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Newly Developed Motion Sensors are a Huge Step Toward Cheap, Wearable Technology
Researchers from the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering have developed a class of breakthrough motion sensors that could herald a near future of ubiquitous, fully integrated and affordable wearable technology.
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Century-Old Theory Comes to Life with 3D Printers
Engineers from Rice University have used 3D printers to turn structure that only existed in theory into strong, light and durable materials with complex, repeating patterns.
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The 20th Anniversary of Copper Interconnects at the 11th IEEE Nanotechnology Symposium
The 11th IEEE Nanotechnology Symposium took place on November 15 at SUNY Polytechnic Institute's Albany, N.Y. campus.
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3D Nanomagnets are Key to Developing the Computer of Tomorrow
Researchers at the University of Cambridge have been able to break this barrier by creating a nanoscale magnetic circuit capable of moving information along the three dimensions of space.
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New Counterfeit Protection Security Features Developed
Researchers from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and the ZEISS Company have proposed to use 3D-printed microstructures instead of 2D structures, like holograms, to improve counterfeit protection.
