Sentences with phrase «as light sources for»

«In addition to being used for solid state lighting and full color displays, such technology can also be used as light sources for fluorescence bio and chemical detection,» continued Professor Ning.

Battery - operated LEDs serve as a light source for the light - conducting threads.

Interestingly, the shower's translucence also means that it acts as a light source for the apartment.

Not exact matches

A key hurdle for any lengthy human mission on the surface of a planet or moon, as opposed to NASA's six short lunar surface visits from 1969 to 1972, is possessing a power source strong enough to meet the various energy needs to sustain a base but small and light enough to allow for transport through space.

The Philippine press is reporting that industry sources said that a consortium that is vying for the Light Railway Transit extension contract is on the verge of breaking up as two members (AMA Group Holdings and SNC Lavalin) are engaged in a dispute over who should supply the equipment and trains and how much funding the Philippine government should source.

[14:18] Rules of the game to succeed, but not for fulfillment [14:40] God loves diversity; same is true with people — different sources of fulfillment [14:55] Success without fulfillment is the ultimate failure [16:53] We all have something different as our inner desire, you need to find what fulfills you [17:05] A cautionary tale: Robin Williams, the loss of a national treasure [18:42] He lit everybody up, except himself [19:15] Most of us live a life where we succeed but we're not truly fulfilled [20:10] Richard: Tony, what is your method for happiness?

There's tons of great money - saving advice for travel that are well - known such as searching for the lowest airfare at various online sources or packing light to avoid extra baggage fees.

Nowadays, though no one doubts that the dramatic detail of the Flight of Helen, the Wrath of Achilles, and the rest, is imaginary, the poems are treated as valuable sources of evidence for the history of Greece and neighbouring lands shortly before 1000 BC Even our own Arthurian legends, I observe, are now treated seriously by quite serious historians, when they are seeking for light upon the dark age of Britain.

Yet as others point out here, the discovery of more ancient sources casts light on obscure usage in the originals thus providing for updated scholarship.

Notwithstanding all that archeology has done for us, and the careful reconsideration of accepted positions in study of the Pentateuch, it still remains that as historic source material the Pentateuch is at its best only hazy - and we have no other for the religion of Moses, except such light as subsequent events can reflect upon it.

The Twittersphere lit up this past week with the revelation that Mark Driscoll's new book includes passages that bear a striking resemblance (though not quite word - for - word equivalence) to material from the book that is cited as their source.

In light of the passages where the concept of a non-temporal God has been found, it would have been appropriate for Whitehead to declare that the non-temporal act of all - inclusive unfettered valuation is God, and to characterize it as the timeless source of all order, as he does in the text in sentences 1, 2 and 4.

as for infallible, so the moon is a light source?

Look for safe and affordable alternative energy sources for lighting and other needs (such as heat in cold weather)

Sources told Street Talk that redundancies were on Coca - Cola Amatil's agenda as the soft drink company went looking for ways to cut its cost base in light of a sluggish (or even non-existent) revenue growth outlook.

I have trouble photographing my cards using a natural light source, though, as the tone of the card can look very different depending on whether the weather changes during the shoot from overcast to sunny for example meaning that the same card could appear to look like two different products in different shades.

But, because we worry (and rightly so) about skin cancer, we shield our skin from the sun's ultraviolet light with clothing and sunscreen, which makes it impossible for our bodies to manufacture Vitamin D. Breast milk was never meant to be the source of vitamin D for our babies (as we are all intended to make our own vitamin D with exposure to sunlight), but as we continue to be cautious about exposure to sunlight, babies do not make enough Vitamin D, nor do they receive enough in breast milk.

He published a number of papers, but it wasn't until he came to Harvard in 1993 as an assistant professor that he settled on a principal theme for his work: the first sources of light.

Led by Young Duck Kim, a postdoctoral research scientist in James Hone's group at Columbia Engineering, a team of scientists from Columbia, Seoul National University (SNU), and Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS) reported today that they have demonstrated — for the first time — an on - chip visible light source using graphene, an atomically thin and perfectly crystalline form of carbon, as a filament.

As a single - unit light source, GFP could serve as a perfect molecular tag for tracking genes and proteins in an organisAs a single - unit light source, GFP could serve as a perfect molecular tag for tracking genes and proteins in an organisas a perfect molecular tag for tracking genes and proteins in an organism.

In addition to being light and flexible, it can extract electrical energy from human blood and sweat, making the device potentially usable as a power source for tiny medical devices inside the human body.

Iran has a vibrant physics community and is already home to facilities such as the Iranian Light Source Facility in Qazvin, northwest of Tehran, which provides intense beams of X-rays for research in many fields.

The prototype only works with coherent illumination sources such as lasers, but Ashok Veeraraghavan, a Rice assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, said it's a step toward a SAVI camera array for use in visible light.

As a result, light - emitting diodes (LEDs) have become the light source of choice for the foreseeable future.

To that end, researchers at Stanford University have created a novel quantum light source that might someday serve as the basis for quantum communication.

This type of manipulation requires a powerful light source such as an ultrafast laser and would last for only a femtosecond, or one quadrillionth of a second.

For humans, the most worrisome insights revealed by the atlas are the effects of an ongoing shift to light - emitting diodes — LEDs — as sources of outdoor light over older incandescent illumination.

Additionally, they had to devise new lighting sources and repurpose new materials so fragile scenes, such as snow - covered mountainsides, could retain their luster for decades to come.

The project, known as LCLS - II, will greatly increase the power and capacity of SLAC's Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) for experiments that sharpen our view of how nature works on the atomic level and on ultrafast timescales.

Repeating the feat for visible light was harder, as the new widget is too small to contain a light source.

The NSLS - II will be 10,000 times as bright as its predecessor, the National Synchrotron Light Source, which ran for more than 30 years.

Background Visible objects fall into two general categories: luminous objects (such as your computer monitor) that emit their own light and illuminated objects (your keyboard, for instance) that reflect light emitted by other sources.

Researchers under the direction of KIT have now demonstrated that carbon nanotubes are suited for use as on - chip light source for tomorrow's information technology, when nanostructured waveguides are applied to obtain the desired light properties.

One promising light source for optical chips is molybdenum disulfide (MoS2), which has excellent optical properties when deposited as a single, atom - thick layer.

For a photosynthetic organism — one that uses light as an energy source — such as the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, keeping in sync with day and night is a particularly important ability.

The groups used different statistical approaches to subtract out the gamma - ray emission from normal astrophysical sources such as pulsars and supernovae to hunt for a dark matter signal, and each arrived at the same conclusion — that any gamma - ray light coming from dark matter must be generated by a relatively heavy particle.

For this purpose, the Mainz physicists have been collaborating with scientists of the BESSY II synchrotron facility at the Helmholtz Center Berlin for Materials and Energy and the Advanced Light Source (ALS) at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, USA, as well as with the Technical University of Berlin and the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in StuttgaFor this purpose, the Mainz physicists have been collaborating with scientists of the BESSY II synchrotron facility at the Helmholtz Center Berlin for Materials and Energy and the Advanced Light Source (ALS) at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, USA, as well as with the Technical University of Berlin and the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgafor Materials and Energy and the Advanced Light Source (ALS) at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, USA, as well as with the Technical University of Berlin and the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgafor Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart.

British newspapers reported this weekend that Ian Wilmut, the University of Edinburgh biologist who led the team that in 1997 cloned Dolly the sheep, is getting out of the cloning business in light of the new findings, which seem to offer researchers a likely new source of stem cell lines for basic research that could one day lead to new treatments and perhaps cures for spinal injuries, diabetes and debilitating disorders such as multiple sclerosis and Parkinson's disease.

«A usual light source such as an LED emits photons randomly without any correlations,» explains Hayat, who is also a Global Scholar at the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research.

IN THE search for cheap, efficient sources of white light, LEDs have long been touted as offering the most potential.

Such structures are currently of interest because they may be suitable for electricity generation from waste heat or as novel light sources and catalysts.

A newcomer could dominate According to Philips» director of LED products, Todd Manegold, it wasn't until five or six years ago that the LED was looked at as a viable light source for everyday use.

The new laser will help relieve the overwhelming demand for time on the world's handful of FELs, which includes the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Menlo Park, California, as well as a FEL in Japan and facilities due to open over the coming year in South Korea and Switzerland.

The solitons form the extremely broadband laser light that is indispensable as a supercontinuum light source for applications in medical imaging, measurement technology, and spectroscopy.

In most cases, it is next to impossible for a U.S. citizen to work as a paid member of the scientific staff in a career position at either an academic institution or European laboratory such as a Max Plank institute or the European synchrotron light sources.

«The removal of phase matching in nonlinear optical metamaterials may lead to applications such as efficient multidirectional light emissions for novel light sources and the generation of entangled photons for quantum networking.»

Materials chemists have been trying for years to make a new type of battery that can store solar or other light - sourced energy in chemical bonds rather than electrons, one that will release the energy on demand as heat instead of electricity — addressing the need for long - term, stable, efficient storage of solar power.

After accounting for the deflection of the cosmic rays by the Milky Way's magnetic field, the team found that the particles are travelling about 326 million light years from a region of extragalactic space containing several potential sources, such as active galactic nuclei and starburst galaxies.

«By chemically modifying the nanotube surface to controllably introduce light - emitting defects, we have developed carbon nanotubes as a single photon source, working toward implementing defect - state quantum emitters operating at room temperature and demonstrating their function in technologically useful wavelengths,» said Stephen Doorn, leader of the project at Los Alamos and a member of the Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies (CINT).

These carbon nanotube quantum light emitters may be important for optically - based quantum information processing and information security, while also being of significant interest for ultrasensitive sensing, metrology and imaging needs and as photon sources for fundamental advances in quantum optics studies.