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Relocating LEDs from Silicon to Copper Enhances Efficiency
June 14, 2012 Chinese researchers have succeeded in transferring gallium nitride (GaN) light-emitting diodes (LEDs) grown on a layer of silicon to a layer of copper. In comparison with LEDs on silicon substrates, ... > full story -
Got Mass? Scientists Observe Electrons Become Both Heavy and Speedy
June 13, 2012 Scientists have shown how electrons moving in certain solids can behave as though they are a thousand times more massive than free electrons, yet at the same time act as speedy ... > full story -
Nanoparticles Found in Moon Glass Bubbles Explain Weird Lunar Soil Behavior
June 13, 2012 Using synchrotron-based nano tomography, scientists have found a highly porous network of alien-looking glassy particles inside unbroken bubbles of glass in a sample of lunar ... > full story -
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Quantum Computers Could Help Search Engines Keep Up With the Internet's Growth
June 12, 2012 With the web constantly expanding, researchers have proposed – and demonstrated the feasibility – of using quantum computers to run Google's page ranking algorithm ... > full story -
Helices of Light: Dark Helices With a Bright Future
June 11, 2012 Laser beams can be made to form dark as well as bright intensity helices, or corkscrews of light. Scientists have now shown that forming dark helices can have considerable advantages over ... > full story -
Quantum Computers Move Closer to Reality, Thanks to Highly Enriched and Highly Purified Silicon
June 7, 2012 Scientists have made the next step towards making quantum computing a reality -- through the unique properties of highly enriched and highly purified ... > full story -
Breaking the Limits of Classical Physics: Light's Quantum Mechanical Properties Demonstrated
June 7, 2012 With simple arguments, researchers show that nature is complicated! Researchers have made a simple experiment that demonstrates that nature violates common sense. The experiment illustrates that ... > full story -
Precise Measurement of Radiation Damage on Materials
June 5, 2012 Researchers have for the first time simulated and quantified the early stages of radiation damage that will occur in a given ... > full story -
Splitting the Unsplittable: Physicists Split an Atom Using Quantum Mechanics Precision
June 5, 2012 Researchers have just shown how a single atom can be split into its two halves, pulled apart and put back together again. While the word "atom" literally means "indivisible," the laws of quantum ... > full story -
Quantum Computers Will Be Able to Simulate Particle Collisions
June 1, 2012 Quantum computers are still years away, but a trio of theoretical physicists can already make the claim "there's an app for that." The theorists have developed a mathematical algorithm that will be ... > full story
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