Sentences with phrase «using atoms»

The possibility of a quantum spin liquid was first demonstrated in the 1930s, but only using atoms placed in a straight line.

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.

Natterer and colleagues created the minuscule magnetic bits using atoms of holmium deposited on a surface of magnesium oxide.

Atomic clocks of similar design using atoms in a hot gas were commercialized a few years ago.

When a museum exhibit touting U.S. efforts in nuclear power came to San José, Costa Rica's capital city, every afternoon Chang - Díaz rushed to the San José International Airport, where the display was located, to learn more about using atoms for energy.

Ye is most excited about the future possibility of using the atoms in the clock as a gravity sensor, to see how quantum mechanics, which operates on very small spatial scales, interacts with general relativity, the theory of gravity, a macroscopic force.

Over the last decade, researchers adapted STMs to probe organic molecules and to build simple devices using atoms like Lego blocks.

Imagine that you are President Truman and you are faced with the choice of using the Atom Bomb to end the war against Japan.

I see from the billboard they'll be using the atom symbol for their symbol this time.

Now, a team of Italian physicists has developed a predictive theoretical model for heat flux in these materials, using atom - scale calculations.

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.

In order to determine the atomic constituents of the individual phases, but primarily to learn about the formation and make - up of the poorly understood γ particle, Vogel and Wanderka investigated the aged samples using atom probe tomography at the University of Münster.

«Using the atom probe to go from the rock to the crystal to its atomic level is like zooming in with the ultimate Google Earth,» Moser says.

Our technique, should we succeed in extending it to Weitz and Hänsch's complete scheme, would be sort of a catch - all; progress so far in cooling molecules tends to use the details of specific molecules, rather than being something general; that's why this is exciting, even though our actual experiment just uses atoms.»

Intel also became the latest tech vendor to unveil an «app store» where programmers can go to write software that will operate on devices using the Atom processor.

If you want to use the atom interferometer to detect faint gravitational waves from just after the big bang, you would have to put the interferometers in spacecraft (two or more) flying in precise formation around the sun.

Subsequently, the researchers exposed the individual tips to different types of stress and used Atom Probe Tomography to characterise the composition of the layer after each stress exposure.

In the first step, for example, they applied heat to the sample until it reached a certain temperature; then they used the atom probe to test what effect thermal stress had on the alloy, applied heat once again to reach a higher temperature, tested the alloy again etc. «Using this method, we can very quickly tell that the analysed alloy disintegrates into several different phases at temperatures above 300 degrees centigrade,» says Ludwig.

The technique uses an atom - sized scanning tip that allows the passage (or «tunneling») of electrons to the bound cobalt atom.

Müller has used atom interferometry to make precision measurements of relativistic effects, measurements that rely not on counting individual oscillations but on tracking the interference between two waves.

Similarly, previous attempts to create quantum «corrals» for electrons have used atoms precisely positioned on a surface, which can not be reconfigured easily.

Most atomic clocks use atoms of the isotope caesium - 133.

Researcher Arun Devaraj and his colleagues at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland use an atom probe tomography system, or APT, to create an «atomic map» of how the individual atoms within a titanium alloy are arranged, and then manipulated the arrangement to form a special nanostructure — resulting in the strongest titanium alloy available today.

Above this mass, in the upper main sequence, the nuclear fusion process can instead use atoms of carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen as intermediaries in the production of helium from hydrogen atoms.

Arun and his colleagues at PNNL use atom probe tomography, a high - resolution 3 - D imaging capability, to study automotive and energy materials.

Eigler subsequently used atom manipulation to create a whole field of quantum engineering.

In a paper published in the journal Energy & Environmental Science, Stavitski and colleagues reveal a proof - of - concept CO2 - CO converter that uses atoms embedded in a graphene sheet and achieves an efficiency of up to 97 %.

Students are assigned with an atom using the Atom cards, and are then given a dating profile.

All of the performance letdowns are the result of Lenovo's using that Atom processor, which exists for one reason and one reason only: battery life.

Intel has historically struggled with mobile platform development due to its lack of experience in the sector, with its goal of using Atom chips in its mobile platforms being hampered by manufacturer preference for more power - efficient ARM chipsets and the increased power and size requirements for Atom leaving the chips relegated to netbooks / desktops.

So what's different about using Atom?

But when the company announced its «Oak Trail» platform this Monday, it said that tablets built using that Atom - based chipset would begin shipping in May.

These tablets or as I like to call them: Smartphone 2.0 is looking pretty attractive but I'm still left wondering if a tablet would be better served by using an Atom + Ion or Ontario SOC.

In early 2015 they updated the high - end version to use an Atom Z3795 CPU which is one of the highest performing processors of the Baytrail (2014 - 2015) generation.

Jeff Beard has an interesting post this morning, The Great RSS vs. Atom News Feed Debate, about the decision by Google - owned Blogger to use the Atom format rather than RSS for Web log syndication.

We will point out that neither Microsoft nor Intel have officially announced plans for any smartphones that will run Windows 10 and use the Atom x3 processor.

Intel uses an Atom processor inside the watch, and the software experience is smooth and slick.

Not exact matches

Because it was being used for atom bomb calculations and other classified tasks, ENIAC was kept secret until February 1946, when the Army and Penn scheduled a gala unveiling for the public and the press.

At the Livermore lab, for example, lasers the length of football fields are being used to compress atoms into fusion.

The experimental method uses graphene, and researchers at MIT have managed to create a super-thin graphene membrane just one atom thick, which they say will make reverse osmosis easier, less energy - intensive, and cheaper.

Radiating the antihydrogen atoms with microwaves allowed the physicists to determine its light fingerprint in a rather indirect way, using specific changes in the antihydrogen that caused them to eject from the magnetic bottle to fine tune estimates on its spectral lines.

Using sensitive lasers, the researchers could then measure the forces on the atoms as they were in free fall.

Scientists can determine where an individual piece of meat comes from using a technique called isotope analysis, looking at the specific fingerprints of carbon, hydrogen, and nitrogen atoms to see where a cow lived.

Imagine summoning 411 trillion watts of power — 1,000 times more than the United States uses in any instant — at the flick of a switch, recreating the atom - altering dynamics deep in the core of a star.

HP has increased R&D spending and is close to releasing new products, in particular its low - energy Moonshot servers that use ARM and Atom chips.

The nuclear power plants in use around the world today use fission, or the splitting of heavy atoms such as uranium, to release energy for electricity.

A computer uses the information to produce 3D images of atoms.

Elizabeth Anscombe noted this in reviewing the justifications offered for the use of the atom bomb.

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.

Some of it we put to use in technology, but much «big» science is for the sheer love of knowing how the universe began or what atoms are made of.