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And advanced systems can record details like how much the air conditioning is used or how hard a driver accelerates.
High Power Microwave Weaponsimagine a weapon that can knock out all the computers in a Syrian military command centre without killing a single person.
That's the idea behind high power microwave weapons which are designed to destroy electronics without causing any physical damage.
Last year, Boeing released a video of its High Power Microwave Advanced Missile Project (Champ)- a missile that essentially fries circuits by causing a surge in power.
the Air force has conducted classified work in high power microwaves for years, and some suspect it already has such weapons available.#
which Leeloo puts chicken pills into a microwave and a second later pulls out a full roast with all the trimmings.
In the United states, LG Electronics sells a range of stylish and innovative home entertainment products, mobile phones, home appliances, commercial displays, air conditioning systems and solar energy solutions, all under LG ife Goodmarketing theme.
Air conditioning & Energy solutions and Vehicle Components and is one of the world leading producers of flat panel TVS, mobile devices, air conditioners, washing machines and refrigerators.
Commercial fridges and freezers keep food fresh and beverages cool. They are vital to modern commerce but troublesome for the environment.
freezers and chilled vending machines filled with goods to sell. They are convenient and essential for preserving
Combined, commercial refrigerator/freezers like these are estimated to consume 85 TWH (terawatt hours) of electricity every year.
The project trademarked V-Tex technology recorded energy savings of 80-90%compared with open-front commercial refrigerators.
"Take the microwave oven, for example: in the 70s, people were a bit fearful about it, they thought food could be poisoned with radiation or something,
Ventilator-associated pneumonia develops in approximately 20 percent of patients in intensive care units (ICUS) who are receiving prolonged medical ventilation.
when we broadcast signals from giant radio towers, cook in microwave ovens, or use an electric toothbrush that recharges wirelessly in a special cradle next to the bathroom sink.
That means any slight shift in an office building s air conditioning or the natural outside air temperature during the course of a day would be more than enough to activate the chemical in the bellows.
and veins, put it in the blender and then performed several extraction steps to gently remove the protein complexes from the membrane
Using the South pole Telescope scientists observed twisting patterns in the polarization of the cosmic microwave backgroundâ##light that last interacted with matter very early in the history of the universe less than 400000 years after the big bang. These patterns
Measuring B modes generated by inflation is a possible way to alleviate lingering doubt. he detection of a primordial B-mode polarization signal in the microwave background would amount to finding the first tremors of the big bangsays
through near-IR using Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors (MKIDS. An MKID is a type of superconducting photon detector;
which enable thousands of devices to be read out over a single microwave feed line.
The size of the arrays is limited by the microwave readout which uses very similar technology to a cellphone base station.
and tuned to capture microwave signals researchers have designed a power harvesting device with efficiency similar to that of modern solar panels.
The device wirelessly converts the microwave signal to direct current voltage capable of recharging a cell phone battery or other small electronic device according to a report appearing in Applied Physics Letters.
Undergraduate engineering student Allen Hawkes working with graduate student Alexander Katko and lead investigator Steven Cummer professor of electrical and computer engineering designed an electrical circuit capable of harvesting microwaves.
and copper energy conductors wired together on a circuit board to convert microwaves into 7. 3v of electrical energy.
The new type of tunable dielectric could greatly improve the performance of microwave circuit capacitors found in every cell phone
Crop growers wine grape and other fruit growers food processors and even concrete makers all benefit from water sensors for accurate steady and numerous moisture readings.
Today s accelerators use microwaves to boost the energy of electrons. Researchers have been looking for more economical alternatives and this new technique
In the past several years optical-based oscillatorsâ##which require optical reference cavitiesâ##have become better than electronic oscillators at delivering stable microwave and radio frequencies.
 ventually this technology will be used to create more powerful devices. his research indicates that questions relating to the physics of quantum communication can be addressed using electronic circuits at microwave frequencies. ne may even foresee future experiments in which quantum information will be distributed over larger distances
directly by microwave to optical interfaces for quantum communicationsays Fedorov. Teleportation is expected to find applications in secure communication
Another system, developed at the UK's National Physical Laboratory, uses radio frequencies, microwaves, terahertz radiation and far-infrared light to determine the ripeness of strawberries
#Freedom Driver allows man with artificial heart to await transplant at home Heart failure patients awaiting organ transplants normally find themselves anchored to the hospital bed by a washing machine-sized device that keeps blood pumping through their veins.
At first Larkin was hooked up to the larger washing machine-sized device. Known as Big Blue the machine weighs 418 lb (190 kg)
It in the refrigerator, said one instructor, explaining memory loss. ave you seen someone like that?
he washing machine terrible we need your helpwashing clothes, she told 200 senior citizens interested in nursing home jobs or family caregiving advice.
The microwave transmission that would deliver SBSP s electricity from an orbiting antenna to terrestrial rectennas would be##2 million times the power of that produced by the microwave oven.##
#But a new concept washing machine, developed for this year s Electrolux Design Challenge, aims to change that.
This is the Luna Wash, the#in-hamper#washing machine.####Designed by Juan Camilo Restrepo Villamizar, the Luna Wash is like a miniature dirt-destroying Death Star that uses static electricity
The island itself will be glistening from the massive net studded with billions of tiny rectifying antennas designed to convert microwave energy into DC power Next to the antennas is a large substation that sends vast amounts of power through an underwater cable to Tokyo,
neither the giant solar collectors in geosynchronous orbit nor the beaming microwaves, coming down to the island from 24,000 miles above Earth.
William C Brown, the inventor of the cross-field amplifier, used a remote control helicopter to demonstrate his breakthroughs using wireless microwave power on the Walter Cronkite 6: 00 pm news. Citing Tesla same logic,
The reason for converting energy to microwaves is because it impervious to weather condition and water in the upper atmosphere.
In its broad-beam form, microwaves become safe for birds and insects to fly through. Microwaves also have an efficiency advantage.
Typically power has to be converted twice: first from DC power to microwaves aboard the satellite, then back to DC again on the ground.
In lab conditions, researchers have achieved about 80%efficiency in this kind of power conversion, which is far better than with other forms of power.
The process of trapping sunlight also produces water that can be used to produce potable water and other modern day amenities such as air conditioning.
a tiny room filled with gigantic copper refrigerator coils the kind you see if you cracked open the back of your freezer.
She walked in and out between the coils and the bulb and still the bulb glowed.
However, these are currently only able to operate in laboratories due to their size (similar to that of a washing machine), sensitivity to vibration,
and can reach 20 mph with 15 miles of electric range though you can triple that by pedaling a lot.
A low-end kitchen blender can make a high-end batch of this valuable material Blenders can be a great way to make smoothies or margaritas,
Researchers have figured out how to use ordinary kitchen blenders to create thin sheets of graphene, a marvelous high-tech material that is just one atom thick but 100 times stronger than steel.
water and dishwashing detergent, mix them up in a blender at high speed, and come up with graphene sheets.
The researchers did most of their work in a five-liter industrial blender, but they also replicated it in a fairly low-end kitchen blender.
The process still worked in the cheaper, less precise device.""This clearly shows that even very crude mixers can produce well exfoliated graphene,
which causes them to emit photons in the microwave region of the spectrum. The photons can then be channeled into a coherent beam of light using mirrors.
and in return they show how the coherent microwave field is created and amplified. Learning to control these fundamental light-matter interaction processes will help in the future development of light sources
Whereas a conventional microwave radar system uses a moving dish antenna to collect microwaves reflecting off a moving object
the Duke system uses a stationary metamaterial aperture, a strip that guides microwaves to a single sensor.
But here, the source sequentially sends out microwaves of different wavelengths. The returning waves are collected then by the metamaterial aperture.
As microwaves travel down the metamaterial strip, they interact with patterns etched along its surface.
Current atomic clocks are based on the microwave signals emitted by electrons inside an atom as they move from one energy level to another.
These results represent refinements of numbers obtained by previous missions such as the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP.
Their giant but crude microwave receiver saw the radiation as being the same in all directions,
NASATHE Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe, launched in 2001, improved on COBE by looking for such anisotropy at much smaller angular scales.
as a dim glow of microwaves with a temperature of just 2. 7 kelvin. Since the cosmic microwave background was detected first in 1964,
two space-based experiments#the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) and the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP)# have mapped the tiny temperature variations within it.
you could say that previous methods were like running the fruit through a blender and seeing
If the aligned dust contains iron the particles'slight vibrations due to their own heat would produce polarised microwave radiation says Mertsch.
but a network of electrical leads rather than an oven or hot plate delivers heat to the robot s joints to initiate folding.
Its top layer is made from graphite that the researchers exfoliated by placing the material in a microwave.
and air conditioning) equipment to detect leaks, breaks, and general inefficiencies, as well as energy saving opportunities. The software then translates the data into graphs, metrics,
and take efficiency measures such as using chilly outdoor air, instead of air conditioning, to cool rooms. he idea is to make buildings better, by helping people save time, energy,
And ambiguity is really the central challenge to getting good alignments in highly cluttered scenes like inside a refrigerator or in a drawer.
and air conditioning (HVAC) systems, which eat up about 50 percent of energy used in homes and buildings.
In a single-family house alone there can be tens of electrical machines in various household appliances such as refrigerators washing machines hair dryers and ventilators.
and low frequencies fall between microwaves and infrared waves. The light in these terahertz wavelengths can pass through materials that we normally think of as opaque such as skin plastics clothing and cardboard.
#Technology using microwave heating may impact electronics manufacture Engineers at Oregon State university have shown successfully that a continuous flow reactor can produce high-quality nanoparticles by using microwave-assisted heating essentially the same forces
The new research has proven that microwave heating can be done in larger systems at high speeds.
And by varying the microwave power it can precisely control nucleation temperature and the resulting size and shape of particles."
"Combining continuous flow with microwave heating could give us the best of both worlds large, fast reactors with perfectly controlled particle size."
Hygienic conditions and sterile procedures are particularly important in hospitals, kitchens and sanitary facilities, air conditioning and ventilation systems, in food preparation and in the manufacture of packaging material.
and receive a microwave signal the system becomes capable of revealing charge-carrier concentrations or defect locations in specific regions of nanoscale materials and devices.
That technique called near-field scanning microwave microscopy (NSMM) had never before been attempted using a nanowire probe.
and aluminum (200 nm) in order to conduct the microwave signal all the way to the end of the tip and back.
Optical radiation can serve to excite the sample in a different way from the microwave signal
With the new design the illumination will be applied directly over the probe tip at the same place on the sample that is being exposed to the microwave signal.
and integrate measurements from topographic microwave and optical modalities. But Bertness is optimistic. It took ten years of hard work learning how to fabricate
Satellite Signals A wireless device developed by researchers at Duke university that converts microwaves into electricity could eventually harvest Wi-fi or satellite signals for power according to its creators.
In this case the microwave-harvesting metamaterial that acts kind of like a solar panel converting microwaves into up to 7. 3 volts of electricity enough to charge small electronics.
and use ultraviolet lamps and a hot plate stored in two heavy suitcases. Zaman has made a cheap handheld scanner called Pharmacheck to quickly identify fake medicine in villages
and ONR said they were armed with a variety of weapons--from. 50 caliber machine guns to high-powered microwave weapons.
a crown of flakes, created by putting the material in a microwave oven and allowing bubbles to come to the surface and burst, in a way"just like popcorn,
has cracked Dyson finally its 16-year mission to create a robot vacuum cleaner? The company#s  teaser video hints at a new release which looks a lot like a rival for the best-selling Roomba
#A truly intelligent domestic robot needs to complete complex everyday tasks while adapting to a constantly changing environment.#
#In order to take a leap forward in making our domestic robot industry a major industry it#s essential to expand robot demand based on the business service models of other industries with a secure core technology.
Terahertz waves operate at a much higher frequency than the microwaves used in cellular and Wi-fi communications,
and air conditioning that can reduce the use of harmful gas fluorocarbons.""We are excited about the potential applications that are available for Dr. Stadler's technology,
"The LHC isn't a toaster, "he said.""We're not stamping thousands of them out of a factory every day,
Terahertz radiation falls between the microwave and infrared portions of the electromagnetic spectrum (300 GHZ THZ),
and microwaves are used to accelerate charged particles. In this latest work Emilio Nanni and colleagues at the Massachusetts institute of technology (MIT), the Center For free-Electron Laser Science (CFEL) at DESY in Germany and the University of Toronto have created a terahertz accelerator module with the aim
The wavelength of this radiation is around 1000 times shorter than the electromagnetic radiation used by current particle accelerators the Large hadron collider uses 400 MHZ microwaves everything else on the terahertz accelerator can also be 1000 times smaller.
#MIT's 3-D Microwave Camera Can See through Walls Visible light is all well and good for things like eyeballs,
At MIT, theye been working on a prototype for a time of flight microwave camera which can be used to image objects through walls,
in 3-D. A microwave camera is sort of like a cross between a visible light camera and a radar imaging system,
Like radar, microwaves don really notice things like darkness or fog or walls, but unlike radar theye not confused by the kinds of angled surfaces that make the stealth fighter so stealthy.
essentially treating microwaves like waves of light and using a passive reflector like a lens,
MIT microwave camera can do 3-D imaging using time of flight in the same way that Microsoft latest Xbox Kinect sensor works.
The time of flight camera sends out bursts of microwaves and then keeps careful track of how long it takes for the microwaves to bounce off of something
and return to the sensor. After doing some not very fancy math with the speed of light,
Here's a video showing the microwave camera taking pictures of (among other things) a mannequin through a solid wall:
wee very good at reflecting microwaves in this frequency range because wee ugly bags of mostly water,
One other trick that the microwave camera is capable of is multispectral imaging. As the camera takes each measurement
the microwave emitter sweeps through a frequency range of 7. 835 GHZ to 12.817 GHZ over 10 ms (your microwave oven operates at 2. 45 GHZ.
Different materials respond to the microwaves differently at lower and higher frequencies, and the camera can separate out these spectra.
The microwave camera is, at the moment, probably not something that you want to carry around. The reflector is over a meter wide,
including the use of reconfigurable focal-plane sensors or shrinking the transmission wavelength from microwave (3 cm) down to millimeter wave (5 mm),
#Microwave diamonds':'Girl's new best friend The 2. 62 carat diamond Calvin Mills bought his fiancee in November is a stunner.
They're made from a carbon seed placed in a microwave chamber with methane or another carbon-containing gas and superheated into a glowing plasma ball.
At another TCL plant in Hefei, near Shanghai, steel refrigerator frames are bent into shape before being plucked by a blue Yasakawa robot arm that stacks them in neat rows for further assembly.
in the middle of a hot summer day when the load from air conditioning is high, grid operators struggle to meet the demand.
or Emdrive and it powered by a device similar to that found in a microwave oven. It was invented by British scientist Roger Shawyer,
You need to understand microwave engineering, which a lot of people don. But the physics behind it is pretty straightforward.
Experimenting with microwaves, which behave in a similar way to light waves, he used a magnetron a device found in microwave ovens to bounce them back and forth between the ends of a closed tube.
His crucial discovery was that if you make one end of the tube wider, they exert more pressure on the other end,
or the Counter-electronics High-powered microwave Advanced Missile Project. Now, the US Air force claims it has advanced the technology,
This uses a super-powerful microwave oven to generate a concentrated beam of energy which causes voltage surges in electronic equipment,
This uses a super-powerful microwave oven to generate a concentrated beam of energy. The energy causes voltage surges in electronic equipment, rendering them useless before surge protectors have the chance to react Keith Coleman, Champ programme manager for Boeing's prototype arm Phantom Works,
Current wireless communications operate at microwave frequencies, however as the demand for faster speeds and larger bandwidths increases, scientists are looking for ways to alleviate the communication bottleneck.
Between the microwave and infrared part of the electromagnetic spectrum lies an appealing candidate: Terahertz (THZ) radiation.
and now using refrigerators. The next step to prolonging shelf life, is breaking down the food further.
they form a ferromagnethe type of magnet you might use on your refrigerator and that is used in the strip on your credit card.
causing the air conditioning to come on. Now, however, researchers from Germany's Fraunhofer Institute for Machine tools and Forming Technology have created a light-blocking facade for such windows that only kicks in
including those on ventilators, to communicate effectively for the first time by breathing an almost effortless act which requires no speech, limb or facial movements."
and microwave radiation The technique could scale up to hold thousands, even millions of qubits on a single chip
and an external current and microwave field control the qubits and make them interact as needed."
and an external current and microwave field control the qubits and make them interact as needed."
and commercialize air conditioning, cooling and heat pump equipment that use HFC-32 as a single component refrigerant.
and were on artificial ventilators but still, they sufferedrepeatedly suffered of breathing problems and needed to be resuscitated.
Contains Copernicus data (2015)/ ESA/DLR Microwaves and Radar Institute/GFZ/e-GEOS/INGVSA SEOM INSARAP study) Moving up Nepal Insar By analyzing the satellite images,
However for facilities in the developing world this can be a problem as the energy needed to power dehumidifiers
Texts are placed in an insulated container with a dehumidifier and temperature-control mechanism. Solar cells power the equipment,
which is currently about as good as that of a refrigerator, Zhang said. In addition, they are"currently considering placing sensors on the cloak,
and taste with the same intensity as you do on earth, Sandy Hyslop, Ballantine Master Blender,
and in reality is microwaves.""We have demonstrated how we can control the lifetime of an atom in a very simple way,
they form a ferromagnet--the type of magnet you might use on your refrigerator and that is used in the strip on your credit card.
which can be harnessed for important applications in manipulating microwave signals and developing certain types of lasers.
"This is an important step toward the use of elastocaloric materials in cooling devices such as household refrigerators and air conditioners,
While heat pumps, air conditioners and refrigerators are most likely to benefit from elastocaloric technology, "elastocaloric cooling can be viewed as a direct substitute for vapor compression technology--one that's more efficient
The findings were published today in the open-access journal Science Advances("Electrically controlling single-spin qubits in a continuous microwave field".
"The findings suggest that it would be possible to locally control individual qubits with electric fields in a large-scale quantum computer using only inexpensive voltage generators, rather than the expensive high-frequency microwave sources.
It converts solar rays into microwaves--using conventional photovoltaic solar panels--and then beams the microwave's energy to microwave collector farms at designated locations On earth.
whether the meat in their grocery store or refrigerator is safe to eat. The sensor, which consists of chemically modified carbon nanotubes,
This osmological Principleis backed up by observations of the early universe and its microwave background signature
and explore potential applications in microwave devices and magnetic recording. With magnetic memory elements approaching nano dimensions, this technique promises new approaches in magnetic recording and computing g
"This device looks a lot like a washing machine, but the dimensions are tiny. Through optical manipulation the particle ring can be squeezed at will,
using microwaves generated by a gyrotron, a high-frequency microwave oscillator developed in collaboration with Richard Temkin of MIT Department of physics and Plasma Science and Fusion Center.
In addition, Tim Swager and his group in the MIT Department of chemistry have developed paramagnetic polarizing agents for the experiments.
as it would do in a regular freezer, by also applying very high pressures. Water crystals can severely damage the tissue by rupturing its cells.
including those on ventilators, to communicate effectively for the first time by breathing an almost effortless act which requires no speech, limb or facial movements. o
so instead early designs deflected longer wavelengths like microwaves. Cloaks have struggled also to handle many wavelengths of light at once.
Next, the signal from the sensor triggers a laser (or a blast of electricity or microwave energy) that heats up a section of air or water
#Plug Your Toaster Into the Sun Sunport lets you use solar power at homeithout the panels.
The process is claimed to reduce energy bills by up to 20 percent a year by enabling buildings to regulate temperature within rather than resorting to air conditioning
#Promising technique improves hydrogen production of affordable alternative to platinum Scientists have demonstrated that microwaves can help create nanostructured molybdenum disulfide (Mos2) catalysts with an improved ability to produce hydrogen.
The microwave-assisted strategy works by increasing the space, and therefore decreasing the interaction, between individual layers of Mos2 nanosheets.
"The microwave-assisted strategy could be a viable way to design advanced molybdenum disulfide catalysts for hydrogen production
Microwave-assisted synthesis is also a greener strategy when compared to conventional heating methods.""Microwave energy is more efficient than conventional heating
because it focuses its electromagnetic waves only on the material being treated and provides quicker, more even heating of a material's interior and exterior surfaces.
Conventional or surface heating is slower than microwave heating and fails to achieve the desired result
And if that fails, they could always just put a grape in a microwave e
It may also serve as an air conditioning, for example, in communities like Tecali de Herrera, Puebla,
ubiquitous computing where almost everything in our homes and offices, from toasters to thermostats, is connected to the internet.
"The findings suggest that it would be possible to locally control individual qubits with electric fields in a large-scale quantum computer using only inexpensive voltage generators, rather than the expensive high-frequency microwave sources.
#Scientists create invisible objects in the microwave range without metamaterial cloaking Physicists from ITMO University,
Ioffe Institute and Australian National University managed to make homogenous cylindrical objects completely invisible in the microwave range.
were tested successfully in microwave experiments. What matters is that the invisibility idea we implemented in our work can be applied to other electromagnetic wave ranges,
VTT's third application trial involved the prevention of microwave reflection. The tests showed that reflection can be reduced by even 10,000 times in polymers,
including those on ventilators, to communicate effectively for the first time by breathing--an almost effortless act which requires no speech, limb or facial movements."
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