Arxiv – Controlling the phase of a light beam with a single molecule (10 pages) We employ heterodyne interferometry to investigate the effect of a single organic molecule on the phase of a propagating laser beam. We report on the first phase-contrast images of individual molecules and demonstrate a single-molecule electro-optical phase switch by applying …
Nanoletters – Holographic Control of Motive Shape in Plasmonic Nanogap Arrays Here we demonstrate that 4-beam holographic lithography can be utilized to create plasmonic nanogaps that are 70 times smaller than the laser wavelength (488 nm). This was achieved by controlling phase, polarization, and laser beam intensity in order to tune the relative spacing of …
This video shows the evolution over time of Herbig-Haro object HH 47, a jet expelled from a newborn star in the southern constellation of Vela. The video was made by stitching together observations of HH 47 made in 1994, 1999 and 2008. credit: NASA, ESA, P. Hartigan (Rice University), G. Bacon (STScI) Given the vast …
Tufts researchers have built the smallest electric motor ever—it consists of just one molecule. Tufts research team has developed the world’s first single-molecule electric motor—which is a mere 1 nanometer across. They reported the results in a paper published in Nature Nanotechnology on Sept. 4. This development—made possible with a low-temperature scanning tunneling microscope at …
A University of Arkansas physicist and his colleagues have found that ultra-thin films of superconductors and related materials don’t lose their fundamental properties when built under strain when built as atomically thin layers, an important step towards achieving artificially designed room temperature superconductivity. This ability will allow researchers to create new types of materials and …
Ben Goertzel at HPlus Magazine talks about his idea for robots made of quarter centimeter to one centimeters pieces that he calls Inorganic Macrocell Robots or IMBots The idea seems very doable with the current millimeter scale claytronics which are themselves precursors to Micron based claytronics and precursors to utility fog. Utility fog needs early …
Jeff Bezos is CEO of Amazon and investor in Blue Origin Rocket and General Fusion. Blue Origin had a crash of a test rocket Three months ago, we successfully flew our second test vehicle in a short hop mission, and then last week we lost the vehicle during a developmental test at Mach 1.2 and …
Previously we had covered DC comics changing the look of superman and giving him pants. DC is also rebooting their comic book universe. Lawyer Jeff Trexler at Comicbeat explains how the the last few years at DC Comics changes to Superboy and Superman have been driven by the courtroom ebb and flow of lawsuits by …
Samsung showed its new Galaxy Note smartphone today at IFA. It is the rumored 5.3″ supersized smartphone. It has a stylus and 1280×800 high-resolution Super AMOLED screen. It is a thin Android phone additional functionality by way of both sketching and note-taking. It is powered by a 1.4 Ghz dual-core processor, 1GB RAM and more. …
A 2010 article looked Solyndras costs for solar panels against average solar panel costs. (ASP Average Sale price for the panels) Costs for solar panels fell 42% from that time. Solar panel costs are down about 20% in 2011. A key differentiating factor that Solyndra claimed was its lower BOS (Balance of System) costs given …
Julius Baer, the leading Swiss private banking group, today published its first ‛Julius Baer Wealth Report’, focusing on Asia. * The estimated 1.16 million HNWIs across Asia with wealth of USD 5.60 trillion in 2010 is forecast to more than double to 2.82 million with wealth to almost triple to USD 15.81 trillion by 2015. …