Sentences with phrase «capture photons»

Using satelites that would capture photons that normally miss our planet, we could covert that energy to microwaves, beam them down to earth stations and convert directly to electricity.

A study in the journal Nature Materials details the creation of a nanowire - based technology that absorbs solar energy at comparable levels to currently available systems while using only 1 percent of the silicon material needed to capture photons.

His lab developed curved charge - coupled devices that capture photons and turn them into electrons for digital processing in the telescope.

«We need to capture photons and prevent heat transfer to make this technology as efficient as possible,» he says.

At the top of the image are the retina's photoreceptor cells (in gray)-- the familiar rods and cones — that capture photons of light and translates them into electrical currents.

Plants have the renewable energy storage problem pretty well figured out: Capture photons from the sun, use them to split water into hydrogen and oxygen to make sugars, then extract the energy from the sugars when it's needed.

Once the scan is finished, the algorithm untangles the paths of the captured photons and, like the mythical image enhancement technology of television crime shows, the blurry blob takes much sharper form.

When inspectors place a plastic bottle inside, a laser sends pulses into the container; a camera then captures those photons that managed to slip past the plastic, interact with the molecules in the liquid, and drift back out.

A specialized camera then captures the photons — the basic units of light — that bounce back.

c) Efficient hydrogen synthesis from sunlight: Captures photons and utilizes every quanta of their energy to separate hydrogen from water and other compounds.

Not exact matches

A bevy of cutting - edge telescopes is poised to capture the universe's photons using mirrors up to 10 million times as large as a person's pupil.

It pumps 20 liters (about 5.3 gallons) of seawater and plankton per second through a «light tight» collection chamber large enough to capture even fast swimmers and keep them inside long enough for the device's fiber - optic instruments to record and measure, in photons per liter, the size, duration, and number of an organism's flashes.

A chance encounter at that meeting with Andrey Yakovenko, a beamline scientist at the Advanced Photon Source, resulted in a collaborative project to capture neon — the 95th element to be observed in the CSD.

Similar to the way Harold Edgerton used high - speed strobe lights to capture some of the most iconic images of the 20th century, the device uses short pulses of light to image the photons in time.

The size of a telescope's aperture (or primary optical element) not only determines how many pesky little photons it can capture, but also the ultimate resolution of the image that can be formed.

The first layer is the retina that captures the rain of arriving photons.

She captures one photon from a pair born from Hawking radiation.

These probes will use metre - wide lightsails of reflective material to capture the momentum from colliding photons and propel themselves along.

But some plants can capture more photons because of energy - efficient genes, which has led scientists to seek ways of inserting those genes into food crops to increase crop yields exponentially.

OCO - 2 will also closely monitor the carbon uptake of plants by measuring the weak fluorescence that is produced during photosynthesis as plants» chlorophyll pigments absorb light to capture energy and subsequently re-emit photons at longer wavelengths.

More fluorescence usually means more photons are being emitted, making it easier to capture a clear image above background.

New synchrotron facilities, such as the Advanced Photon Source, offered bright, short X-ray pulses, which could capture the microseconds or less timescales of many excited states.

During a press event in Manhattan, Sprint and Motorola have jointly announced the Photon 4G smartphone with a dual - core 1 GHz Tegra 2 processor, 16 GB on board memory, support for 32 GB microSD cards, 1 GB of RAM, 4.3 - inch qHD display, kickstand, 8 megapixel camera main camera with HD video capture and front - facing camera for as well as the docking port for the lapdock as found on the AT&T ATRIX 4G, making this the CDMA version of the aforementioned phone.

These additional molecules capture additional photons in the atmosphere leading to the idea of an energy imbalance at TOA.

These real photons are captured and quantified by detectors as two fluxes OLR and DLR, not net radiation.

Atmospheric CO2 does not act like a selective capture machine, waiting for photons at the middle of an absorption band and rejecting others.

Is this, 64w / m ^ 2, perhaps a measure of that portion of the blackbody radiation energy emitted from the earth («earthshine») that is blocked by the saturated H2O absorption spectrum as opposed to the relative ability of any given parcel of air to capture or export heat via the H2O photon radiation path?

On the other hand, with the advent of molecular nanotechnology we may be able to develop micron sized factories with a uniform design, accurate down to the molecular level, capable to convert readily available raw materials to some high energy density, non-flammable, non-toxic chemical using short wave solar photons captured by molecular antennas, with no harmful emissions whatsoever.

Greenhouse gases don't block all outgoing radiant energy — it merely slows it down by capturing more infrared photons and re-emitting in all directions including down — increasing net energy retained at any instant in the atmosphere.

If we were to take a snapshot of a volume of space capturing the stream of photons from the sun hitting earth.

Each photon captured by an alga subtracts one from that total, and so on until all are consumed.

Of every 2500 molecules there is one CO2 and I have read that CO2 emitted photons travel no more that 10 meters before capture near the ground so water might travel something like 50 centimeters to just be mainly thermalized.

Nitrogen has 1950 of these 2500 and oxygen has 525 of them so water molecule emitted photons would travel even further before capture by another H2O molecule.

The only place this process falls apart is near the TOA and above as even LTE fails and the photons have little chance of ever being captured.

The reason behind this betterment is that the monochrome lens doesn't capture colors, as a result, it can absorb more light photon particles.

When there's less ambient light, the light - sensing pixels have fewer photons to work with, so a wider aperture helps remedy this by allowing more light to be captured at once.

A possible solution would be the use of additional camera sensors allowing for the gathering of more data (capturing of more photons)