“In many cases, it is much easier to redirect a laser beam at a target than to steer the laser itself. We intended to develop a way to do this efficiently and without moving anything,” says Dr. Michael Escuti, an associate professor of electrical engineering at NC State and co-author of a paper on the …
Graphene is the material from which graphite, the core of your No. 2 pencil, is made. It is also the latest “wonder material,” and may be the electronics industry’s next great hope for the creation of extremely fast electronic devices. Researchers at North Carolina State University have found one of the first roadblocks to utilizing …
In his CLEO: 2011 talk , Joachim Fischer, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany, will describe the first-ever demonstration of a three-dimensional invisibility cloak that works for visible light—red light at a wavelength of 700 nm—independent of its polarization (orientation). Previous cloaks required longer wavelength light, such as microwaves or infrared, or required the light …
CNN and other news sources report Osama bin Laden was killed by a “U.S. military asset,” according to a senior U.S. official. Earlier, a senior U.S. official says bin Laden was killed by U.S. forces in a mansion outside the Pakistani capital of Islamabad along with other family members. Members of Pakistan’s intelligence service – …
1. Idaho Samizdat – Initial look at lessons learned from Fukushima Below are the first 10 of 14 lessons learned listed at Idaho Samizdat. This paper outlines the initial list of lessons learned from the multiple sequence of events, some interpretations of the news releases and the aspects of safety culture that contrast Japan and …
AIS is Accelerated Improvement Scenario, CIS is Continued Improvement Scenario, IEA Equiv. refers to converting ERI’s numbers to IEA equivalent given that ERI follows the convention of using power generation equivalent, rather than IEA and LBNL’s use of calorific equivalent, to convert primary electricity. This results in a 3.01 lower gross energy content for renewables …
LG showed off a 31 inch OLED TV at IFA 2010 The iPhone 4 has 960-by-640-pixel resolution at 326 ppi for its 3.5 inch display The iPhone 4 is using In-plane switching is an LCD technology which aligns the liquid crystal cells in a horizontal direction. In this method, the electrical field is applied through …