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Saturday, January 21, 2012

ScienceDaily: Top Technology News

ScienceDaily: Top Technology News


In solar cells, tweaking the tiniest of parts yields big jump in efficiency

Posted: 20 Jan 2012 03:45 PM PST

By tweaking the smallest of parts, engineers are hoping to dramatically increase the amount of sunlight that solar cells convert into electricity.

T-rays technology could help develop Star Trek-style hand-held medical scanners

Posted: 20 Jan 2012 03:30 PM PST

Scientists have developed a new way to create Terahertz waves (T-rays) that may one day lead to biomedical detective devices similar to the 'tricorder' scanner used in Star Trek.

Bucky balls for next-generation spintronics devices

Posted: 20 Jan 2012 03:29 PM PST

The beauty of an electron's spin is that it responds very rapidly to small magnetic fields. Such external magnetic fields can be used to reverse the direction of spin. In this way, information can be carried by a flow of electrons.

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