Sentences with phrase «used by the atom»

While a Windows tablet will let you run some of your regular software, the integrated graphics solution used by the Atom Z3735G isn't good for much more than basic video and Web games.

The integrated graphics solution used by the Atom Z3745 has its own limitations, though it will do fine for basic video and Web games.

Not exact matches

Scientists buoy our longing for clarity by enumerating laws and speaking of atoms and electrons, but, laments Camus even they are reduced to using the «poetry» of planetary systems, i.e., they Can not rationally seize the reality they study.

To use an example of Waddington (1961, p. 20), sodium chloride molecules exhibit properties which we can not observe by studying sodium and chlorine atoms in isolation.

Industry analysts predict that nanotechnology will most likely to be used to transform food by shaping molecules and atoms.

But, they add, the isotopes created by these storms likely constitute a small portion of all such atoms — so the new findings are unlikely to change the way other scientists use them for dating and geotracing.

In principle, the wave function, denoted by Greek letter psi, can be used to reveal these energy levels for any given atom or molecule, although in practice this has only been done for the very simplest — the hydrogen atom and molecule (made of two hydrogen atoms bonded together).

These effects are used to execute basic mathematical operations (quantum gates) between the two atoms, as is demonstrated by the Garching team with two characteristic gate operations.

The condensate, which is made from around 4000 cooled rubidium atoms, is trapped inside the beams by the same forces used to create optical tweezers, which can manipulate particles on a small scale.

Now a team led by physicist Andre Clairon of the Paris Observatory in France has stretched out the interaction time drastically by using a trick with two laser beams to launch a single «ball» of 600,000 cesium atoms into a vacuum.

This interference reveals how fast the atom moved when hit by the laser, which scientists then used to calculate the fine - structure constant.

The ANU team not only succeeded in building the experiment, which seemed nearly impossible when it was proposed in 1978, but reversed Wheeler's original concept of light beams being bounced by mirrors, and instead used atoms scattered by laser light.

After fixing the molecular engine to the car's chassis and shining a light on it, Tour's team confirmed that the engine was running by using nuclear magnetic resonance to monitor the position of the hydrogen atoms within it.

Until now, to overcome the experimental difficulties behind «photographing «proteins, scientists used theoretical models to simulate protein movements, atom by atom.

The team succeeded by using deuteration, or the substitution of deuterium atoms for hydrogen atoms, to study how hydroxyl is produced.

Using a molecular dynamics code called NAMD, the team ran simulations of the wild lignin and the genetically modified lignin in a water cube, modeling the presence of the aldehydes by altering the partial charges of the oxygen and hydrogen atoms on the modified lignin's allylic site.

In fact, only by using a combination of in situ X-ray powder diffraction measurements, low temperature and high pressure have we been able to conclusively identify the neon atom positions beyond reasonable doubt.»

If it can be implemented, the work could find use in preparing qubits, which are often single atoms, for use in quantum - information systems by initializing them to a known state.

For now, the researchers are planning to test the 51 - atom system as a quantum simulator, specifically on path - planning optimization problems that can be solved using adiabatic quantum computing — a form of quantum computing first proposed by Edward Farhi, the Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics at MIT.

Nevertheless, the researchers headed by Mariya Ivanova have made some significant progress: by inserting foreign atoms into the crystal lattice, their membrane is more stable and can be used at lower temperatures.

Unlike the sun, which generates energy by fusing hydrogen atoms into helium, RR Lyrae stars have already used up all the hydrogen in their core and are fusing helium into carbon instead.

«This is similar to x-ray diffraction, but by using electrons we get a much larger signal, and the high energy of the probe electrons gives us better access to measuring the precise motion of atoms,» Zhu said.

They proposed a new way to study a cuprate, one that no other group had tried: a powerful imaging technique developed by Davis, called sublattice imaging - which is performed using a specialized scanning tunneling microscope (STM) capable of determining the electronic structure in different subsets of the atoms in the crystal, the so - called sublattices.

Created by essentially strapping a hacked Kinect to an iRobot Create (a sort of blank Roomba platform used by robotics developers) along with a gutted Intel Atom computer, the KinectBot uses the Kinect bar's 3D sensors in ways that'd make an ordinary Roomba hopelessly jealous.

For these studies, NIST developed a direct - current (DC) magnetometer in which polarized light is used as a detector to measure the «spin» of rubidium atoms induced by magnetic fields.

The researchers at first fabricated high - quality, atomically thin FeSe films, with thickness of between one monolayer (which corresponds to three - atoms thickness) and twenty monolayers (sixty - atoms thickness), by using the molecular - beam - epitaxy (MBE) method * 3.

(Isotopes, forms of an atom that differ only by weight, are often used to «fingerprint» the source of various samples.)

Already now, we are able to control the behavior of individual atoms by situating them within special semiconductor structures - this is the method used to form quantum dots that contain single magnetic ions.

This atom can be heated with the help of electrically - generated noise and cooled by using a laser beam.

A team of researchers led by Professor Kilian Singer, head of the project at Mainz University and now Professor at the University of Kassel, used a Paul trap to capture a single electrically charged calcium atom.

«By reversing the cycle, we could even use the device as a single atom refrigerator and employ it to cool nano systems coupled to it,» explained Johannes Roßnagel, first author of the study.

Another far more arduous and painstaking technique involves dragging and placing atoms one by one using an atomic force microscope or a scanning tunnelling microscope (STM), both of which are sensitive enough to move single atoms around on a surface with a fine tip.

Meyer, a chemist at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and director of its Energy Frontier Research Center in Solar Fuels, noticed that two separate groups of researchers working on two separate parts of the photosynthetic reaction happened to be using the same class of catalyst — ones with an atom of the metal ruthenium surrounded by organic molecules.

In related work, a second team of researchers led by the same Penn State group used doping engineering that substitutes foreign atoms into the crystal lattice of the film in order to change or improve the properties of the material.

After removing one of the atom's electrons, researchers trapped the atom using electric fields and cooled it to less than a thousandth of a degree above absolute zero -LRB--- 273.15 ° Celsius) by hitting it with laser light.

But the graphene samples used in past experiments were replete with imperfections and impurities — places where a carbon atom was missing or had been replaced by something different.

A number of research groups have also investigated the use of chemicals to alter the configuration of atoms in semiconductor materials, but that process is still difficult to control and has not been widely adopted by industry.

Here, by contrast, atoms on individual molecules were physically manipulated using a microscope.

The flat, triangular fragment of a mesh of carbon atoms, called triangulene1, is too unstable to be made by conventional chemical synthesis, and could find use in electronics.

Phillips and his colleagues discovered that under certain conditions, optical molasses could be used to cool atoms to temperatures far below the lower limit predicted by the existing theory.

Researchers at IBM have created an elusive molecule by knocking around atoms using a needle - like microscope tip.

The authors use the opportunities provided by nano - engineered dielectrics, the so - called Photonic Crystals, to study both how to trap the atoms closer to each other and make them interact through the guided modes in the structure.

By keeping them in a magnetic trap on an atom chip, this atom cloud can be used as a «quantum simulator,» which yields information about a variety of different physical systems and new insights into some of the most fundamental questions of physics.

Heinrich did it by painstakingly using a microscope fitted with a tool to move the atoms into a formation.

Approximately 1.1 x 10 to the power of 13 moles of iron atoms — that's more than 600 million tonnes of the element — are used by the world's manufacturing industries every year.

Using atoms cooled to just billionths of a degree above absolute zero, a team led by researchers at Princeton University has discovered an intriguing magnetic behavior that could help explain how high - temperature superconductivity works.

JILA researchers used an ultra-stable laser to achieve a record level of synchronization between the atoms and lasers, reaching a record - high quality factor of 5.2 quadrillion (5.2 followed by 15 zeros).

The technique, developed by researchers at Sheffield University, uses the phenomenon of laser «speckle»: no surface is uniformly smooth at the atomic scale and, when laser light reflects off it, the roughness caused by the individual atoms creates interference in the wavefronts so that the reflected light seems to scintillate, with tiny bright and dark patches.

Researchers use a similar trick to study atomic electrons — by pinging atoms with exceedingly short light pulses, they can watch electrons» quantum states evolve in unprecedented detail.

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