The instruments, which
use electrical measurements to track ingestion and digestion of prey, can help researchers understand where, when and how much sharks and other predators are eating, and what they are feasting on.
The big bump up includes nearly $ 160 million in new funds for NIST's core laboratory budget, including support for programs in nanoscale manufacturing, advanced energy materials, and novel time and
electrical measurement capabilities.
In addition to the material growth and
electrical measurements performed by the Purdue researchers, the Princeton and UT Austin groups contributed to this study by performing advanced characterizations that further confirmed important properties of the material as a topological insulator.
Purdue University doctoral student Yang Xu, lead author of a new research paper on «topological insulators,» an emerging class of materials that could make possible «spintronic» devices and practical quantum computers far more powerful than today's technologies, is shown here inspecting devices made from topological insulators under a microscope
before electrical measurements.
Thanks to a measuring instrument developed at the University of Twente, it was also possible — by means
of electrical measurements — to measure the amount of sand in the water just a few millimetres above the bottom (a layer that plays a crucial part in the transport of sand).
Using electrical measurements he collected during the eel attacks, Catania came up with an equation to estimate the amount of electric current flowing from the eel into his arm.
The electrical measurements revealing the signature half - integer quantum Hall effect were performed at the National Science Foundation's National High Magnetic Field Laboratory.
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