Yongfa Fan, a doctoral student in RIT’s microsystems engineering Ph.D. program, accomplished imaging rendered to 26 nanometers a size previously possible only via extreme ultraviolet wavelength, Smith says. By capturing images that are beyond the limits of classical physics, the breakthrough has allowed resolution to smaller than one-twentieth the wavelength of visible light, he adds. …
Georgia Tech researchers have created a highly sensitive atomic forcemicroscopy (AFM) technology capable of high-speed imaging 100 timesfaster than current AFM. This technology could prove invaluable formany types of nano-research, in particular for measuringmicroelectronic devices and observing fast biological interactions onthe molecular scale, even translating into movies of molecularinteractions in real time. It can scan …
Advanced Nanotechnology and conventional future space technologies will be providing vast new capabilities in space over the coming decades. I think a not too high threshhold of space capability is needed to maintain MAD (mutually assured destruction) level deterrence. You send out some 100-1000 ton launcher vehicles. They go and hide on the non-earth facing …
Using near future space based systems like magbeam and eventually nanotechnology (2G acceleration ion solar electric. 3,000t of current batteries or 150t of fuel could accelerate 10t payload to 20 km/s(72000 km/hr). This is the kinetic energy of 10tons at 20km/s is 4 terajoules.(1000tons of TNT equivalent) One megaton is equivalent to 4.18 x 10**15 …
Ray Kurzweil is famous predictor of technology and a millionaire inventor of the music synthesizer and other investions. In the interview he gives some of his rules of thumb on predicting the future of technology. We will increase the price-performance of computing, which is alreadyformidable and deeply influential, by a factor of a billion in …
A press release about the study next gen bioweapons (including nanotech/nanobiotech) is here The newscientist magazine discusses the report as well The online report about about the study next gen bioweapons is here the reports Advanced tech discussion starts here Recommendations are summarized at this link The key recommendation is: the entire scientific community should …
Scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory, in collaboration with researchers from the University of Nevada, Reno, Ludwig-Maximilian-University in Germany, and the Max-Planck-Institute for Quantum Optics in Germany, have developed a new method for using a laser beam to accelerate ions. The novel method may enable important advances in compact ion accelerators, medical physics and inertial …
Optical communication in space at 8X ethernet speeds and longer distance quantum encrypted communication could result from a better photon trap A photon trap. The heart of the detector, which has been around for a couple of years, is a wire 100 nanometers wide that meanders like coils on a refrigerator to increase the area …
Giant wire spheres may one day float near Earth, scooping up bits of antimatter for humans to use as space fuel. This is one of 12 recently selected to each receive up to $75,000 from the NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts. A plan is for antimatter to be collected using three concentric wire spheres. The …
Italy’s has made the world’s fastest nanomotor – a molecular engine designed to carry drugs into cells. Vincenzo Balzani of Bologna University is the new engines designer. The engine, called Sunny because it runs on solar power, is a million times faster than the only other eco-friendly nanomotor, recently built in the Netherlands. The Netherlands …
In the Jan. 20, 2006, issue of Science, Columbia scientists explain how they have developed a unique way to connect the ends of carbon nanotubes by forming robust molecular bridges between them. The Columbia team was able to combine the best qualities of carbon nanotubes and organic molecules in a single electronic switch, the journal …