Ads : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News   Computer Software Michael Pettis explains how a chinsese currency revaluation would play out. Michael Pettis is a professor at Peking University’s Guanghua School of Management, where he specializes in Chinese financial markets, and a Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. * A revaluation shifts wealth from …
Ads : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software These transmission electron microscope images show (a) the original nanorod array of cadmium sulfide and (b) a composite made from cadmium sulfide and the chalcogenide copper sulfide. In the composite, nanoparticle ordering is maintained but spacing between the particles decreases Composites are combinations of materials that produce …
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Ads : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Two experimental systems at the forefront of modern physics research — a single trapped ion and a quantum atomic gas — have been combined for the first time by researchers at Cambridge. The successful creation of this hybrid system opens the way to new types of experiment, …
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Ads : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software In a paper published online Feb. 22 in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, MIT Researchers (Wang and Prinn suggest) that using wind turbines to meet 10 percent of global energy demand in 2100 could cause temperatures to rise by one degree Celsius in the regions on land where …
Ads : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Two optical elements fully characterized by their transmission matrix, which relates the incident wave front to the transmitted one. In the case of a thin lens, the transformation of the wave front is described by a 2×2 matrix operating on a vector describing the wave front curvature. …
Christian Science Monitor reports that China’s official military budget grew by 7.5% to 532 billion yuan Wikipedia -the military budget of the united states Estimate of Defense Budgets for China and the USA in Billions Official Defense Budget Forecast Based on Fixed Percent of GDP GDP Forecasts in Trillions of US Dollars In the table …
Optical microscope photographic image of an array of nanophotonic avalanche photodetectors on a silicon chip On March 4, 2010 IBM scientists unveiled a significant step towards replacing electrical signals that communicate via copper wires between computer chips with tiny silicon circuits that communicate using pulses of light. As reported in the recent issue of the …
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E) invites you to the inaugural ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit in the Washington DC area from March 1-3. The summit brings together all the nation’s key players in energy innovation: scientific researchers, VC investors, technology entrepreneurs, large corporations, and government officials The Program of …
Nanoletters – New Nanostructured Li2S/Silicon Rechargeable Battery with High Specific Energy The Lithium Sulfide batteries theoretically can have four times the specific energy of lithium ion batteries and have been experimentally produced at 150% the specific energy of lithium ion. Rechargeable lithium ion batteries are important energy storage devices; however, the specific energy of existing …