Actually since this graphene hype started, being more or less a physics laic, I keep wondering how much of these promised miracles will in fact be delivered? Any chance for an expert's opinion?
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Any use for the smell project?
"We have demonstrated resoNant antenna-enhanced single-particle hydrogen sensing in the visible region and presented a fabrication approach to the positioning of a single palladium Nanoparticle in the Nanofocus of a gold Nanoantenna,"
I still believe that it is worth to check the thermal, mechanical and chemical properties of the developed metamaterials. For hyperbolic re-entries the radiation is still the dominating heat load source and a dominating bandwith may be indentified. A resistive metamaterial should be placed on the nose cap of the entry body in order to reduce local radiation heat load.
"Plasmon rulers can be used to determine nanoscale distances within chemical or biological species. They are based on the spectral shift of the scattering spectrum when two plasmonic nanoparticles approach one another.... We demonstrated a three-dimensional plasmon ruler that is based on coupled plasmonic oligomers in combination with high-resolution plasmon spectroscopy. This enables retrieval of the complete spatial configuration of complex macromolecular and biological processes as well as their dynamic evolution."
Interesting blog maintained by the people from D-Wave, who developed the first commercial quantum computer. The blog presents a python implementation to program the D-Wave and some examples.
yes it seems like. most of it seems however directed toward understanding this effect, and not toward applications. But i'm still convinced that we could find many very interesting applications !!!
a few references from ADS:
1 2011PhRvA..83f3807B
1.000 06/2011 A E X R C U
Brida, G.; Chekhova, M. V.; Fornaro, G. A.; Genovese, M.; Lopaeva, E. D.; Berchera, I. Ruo
Systematic analysis of signal-to-noise ratio in bipartite ghost imaging with classical and quantum light
2 2011PhRvA..83e3808L
1.000 05/2011 A E R U
Liu, Ying-Chuan; Kuang, Le-Man
Theoretical scheme of thermal-light many-ghost imaging by Nth-order intensity correlation
3 2011PhRvA..83e1803D
1.000 05/2011 A E R C U
Dixon, P. Ben; Howland, Gregory A.; Chan, Kam Wai Clifford; O'Sullivan-Hale, Colin; Rodenburg, Brandon; Hardy, Nicholas D.; Shapiro, Jeffrey H.; Simon, D. S.; Sergienko, A. V.; Boyd, R. W.; Howell, John C.
Quantum ghost imaging through turbulence
4 2011SPIE.7961E.160O
1.000 03/2011 A E T
Ohuchi, H.; Kondo, Y.
Complete erasing of ghost images caused by deeply trapped electrons on computed radiography plates
5 2011ApPhL..98k1115M
1.000 03/2011 A E R U
Meyers, Ronald E.; Deacon, Keith S.; Shih, Yanhua
Turbulence-free ghost imaging
6 2011ApPhL..98k1102G
1.000 03/2011 A E R C U
Gan, Shu; Zhang, Su-Heng; Zhao, Ting; Xiong, Jun; Zhang, Xiangdong; Wang, Kaige
Cloaking of a phase object in ghost imaging
7 2011RScI...82b3110Y
1.000 02/2011 A E R U
Yang, Hao; Zhao, Baosheng; Qiu
cool. It would be very to make a review of interesting photonic properties we could benefit from nature, and the possible use for space. It's nice to see that some structured can already be replicated...!
Is there a structure to give angulaer momentum to light ?
As a result of its high symmetry and conjugated bond structure, the electronic properties of C60 are very unusual, and there is a massive research effort toward integrating it into molecular scale electronic devices [4].
In this context, it is important to understand how the molecule forms bonds with a metal substrate, such as silver, which is commonly used as an electrode material.
The general trend in all of these cases shows that even molecules with relatively weak individual (atom-to-atom) surface bonds can induce substantial substrate reconstructions in order to create favorable adsorption sites [8]. Such “nanopatterning” of substrates is essential to the stability of ordered structures of these molecules and can critically influence their electronic structure, which is an important aspect in the design of molecular electronic devices.
Extending quantum communication to space environments would enable us to perform fundamental experiments on quantum physics as well as applications of quantum information at planetary and interplanetary scales. Here, we report on the first experimental study of the conditions for the implementation of the single-photon exchange between a satellite and an Earth-based station. We built an experiment that mimics a single photon source on a satellite, exploiting the telescope at the Matera Laser Ranging Observatory of the Italian Space Agency to detect the transmitted photons. Weak laser pulses, emitted by the ground-based station, are directed toward a satellite equipped with cube-corner retroreflectors. These reflect a small portion of the pulse, with an average of less-than-one photon per pulse directed to our receiver, as required for faint-pulse quantum communication. We were able to detect returns from satellite Ajisai, a low-Earth orbit geodetic satellite, whose orbit has a perigee height of 1485 km.
hello Jose!
Interesting it was proposed to do the same with the ISS as part of the ACES experiment. I don't remember the paper but i can look if you're interested