Levitating sensors are moving from science-fiction imagery to practical laboratory tools, promising a new generation of ...

Gravitational wave detectors rely on exquisitely sensitive optical systems, where mirror coatings play a critical role. In these systems, coating thermal noise – originating from intrinsic mechanical ...

Some phenomena in our daily lives are so commonplace that we don't realize there could be some very interesting physics ...

In an effort to study how our bodies work at the nanoscale, researchers from the University of Texas in Austin have developed an innovative technique that produces higher-resolution 3D images than ...

A new breakthrough brings snake-like thermal vision to everyday camera sensors, pushing infrared imaging ...

This is the last in a series of three articles on thermal diodes. The previous two articles of our 'thermal diode' series, How to Measure Temperature in Integrated Systems and The ‘Thermal Diode’…A ...

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apache Design Solutions, a leading provider of innovative power analysis and optimization solutions that enable the design of power-efficient, high-performance, ...

As an engineer at Bell Laboratories, Harry Nyquist did important work on thermal noise (“Johnson–Nyquist noise”), the stability of feedback amplifiers, telegraphy, facsimile, television, and other ...

“Say you want to use thermal imaging to monitor chemical reactions in a high-temperature reactor chamber,” said Gururaj Naik, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at Rice and ...

Theoretical physicists propose to use negative interference to control heat flow in quantum devices. Quantum computer parts are sensitive and need to be cooled to very low temperatures. Their tiny ...

Whether peering back to the beginning of our universe, winning wars, or looking deep inside the human body at dangerous tumors, radar technology has been a reliable extension of human vision for ...