Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Air Force Office of Scientific Research-supported holographic, adaptive, optics research may help transform software into computer-free, electronics for unmanned aerial vehicles, high energy lasers and free-space optical communications that will enable each to run faster and more efficiently than before “The current system for UAV imagery, …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software On 23 March 2010, Forschungszentrum Jülich and IBM signed the contract for a joint “Exascale Innovation Center” (EIC). EIC will develop hardware and software for an exascale supercomputer by the end of 2019. According to the schedule, a prototype of the new exascale supercomputer is expected …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Arxiv – Is there a maximum magnetic field in QED? It was recently conjectured by Shabad and Usov that there exists in QED a maximum magnetic field of 10^42 Gauss, above which the magnetized vacuum becomes unstable. Using a nonperturbative analysis that consistently incorporates the effective …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software LaserMotive White Paper – Power Beaming for UAVs (9 page pdf) Laser Motive will be competing in the 2010 Powerbeaming (Space Elevator Games) competition. The last date given for the competition is May 10, 2010. However, this would seem likely to slip as their should be …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Carnival of Space 152 is up at Martian Chronicles. Nextbigfuture contributions the 152nd carnival: 1. Earth based and space based hypertelescope proposals are reviewed. Includes calculations of the optical baselines and light gathering specifications for heroic imaging of planets in other solar systems 2. Dyson Swarms …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Tel Aviv University develops fiber optics technology to replace semi-conductors. It’s a new nano-based technology that can make computers and the Internet hundreds of times faster — a communications technology “enabler” that may be in use only five or ten years in the future. Dr. Koby …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Here is a powerpoint presentation on the from 2009 on the work to create a Bose-Einstein condensate of Positronium (24 pages). This work recently made progress as researchers isolated a collection of “pure” or spin polarized positronium atoms for the first time. Positronium is a short-lived …
1. Fabrication and Characterization of CMOS-MEMS Thermoelectric Micro Generators (11 page pdf) This work presents a thermoelectric micro generator fabricated by the commercial 0.35 μm complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) process and the post-CMOS process. The micro generator is composed of 24 thermocouples in series. Each thermocouple is constructed by p-type and n-type polysilicon strips. …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Arxiv – The Physics and Applications of Superconducting Metamaterials We summarize progress in the development and application of metamaterial structures utilizing superconducting elements. After a brief review of the salient features of superconductivity, the advantages of superconducting metamaterials over their normal metal counterparts are discussed. We …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software One of the big secrets of World War 2 is why Nazi Germany succeeded in surprising Soviet Russia in June 1941. The usual reasons were that Stalin trusted a non-aggression pact with Hitler or Stalin was afraid of Nazi Germany. Viktor Sukorov analyzes some recently released …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Arxiv – Six degree of freedom atomic-scale manipulation using carbon nanotube bundles The designs can support the 9 tooltips designed by Freitas and Merkle. Journal of Nanotechnology – A six degree of freedom nanomanipulator design based on carbon nanotube bundles [updated copy of the paper. Aug …