Sentences with phrase «quantum mechanical processes»

«Solar energy: Prototype shows how tiny photodetectors can double their efficiency: New research invokes quantum mechanical processes that occur when two atomically thin materials are stacked together.»

Physicists at the University of California, Riverside have developed a photodetector — a device that senses light — by combining two distinct inorganic materials and producing quantum mechanical processes that could revolutionize the way solar energy is collected.

Isaacs and his collaborators turned to a mathematical framework called density functional theory (DFT) to describe the quantum mechanical processes unfolding in the materials.

A Columbia University team used supercomputers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory to simulate and probe quantum mechanical processes that would be extremely difficult to explore experimentally.

If black hole after all the scenario of quantum mechanical process have completed their interactions behave accordingly to Relativity equation to became eventually a tiny speck in space of high intensity mass with very strong gravitation wave could the telescope have picked up such polarization of light from some gravitated wave of dying star or black hole.

For the first time, engineers have developed a fast random number generator based on a quantum mechanical process that could deliver the world's most secure encryption keys in a package tiny enough to use in a mobile device.

Not exact matches

The feat opens up new possibilities in silicon carbide because its nanoscale defects are a leading platform for new technologies that seek to use quantum mechanical properties for quantum information processing, sensing magnetic and electric fields and temperature with nanoscale resolution, and secure communications using light.

This is because mechanical properties such as a material's springiness and hardness depend on how it is processed — something that quantum - mechanical codes by themselves can not describe.

In quantum - mechanical processes, outcomes can not be predicted perfectly but only with a certain probability.

Sophie Mader and Ville Kaila then used this information to carry out quantum mechanical simulations on its biochemical processes.

To study how and why DEB changes in volatility, the researchers measured properties such as vapor pressures and melting points, probed molecular structure, and ran quantum mechanical computer simulations to model the hydrogenation process.

To model the double process in question, the authors consider quantum mechanical dynamics in a background space consisting of a number of small crystal - like domains varying in size and composition, known as polycrystalline space.

They are also suitable for processing single photons and can furthermore be prepared in quantum mechanical superposition states.

An accurate computational description of electronic excitations and charge - transfer processes that underlie e.g. next - generation energy - conversion, energy - storage, and catalytic systems through time - dependent quantum - mechanical theory is one of the most desirable goals of computational science today!

He is a pioneer in the field of semiconductor spintronics, exploring the quantum mechanical behavior of charges and spins in nanostructures and the foundations of solid - state quantum information processing.

Of particular interest are those biological processes that trigger energy conversion into forms that are usable for chemical transformations and are quantum mechanical in nature.

Research focuses on quantum - mechanical processes in DNA sequence evolution.