#Paving the way for a faster quantum computer Since its conception, quantum mechanics has defied our natural way of thinking,
#Close to the point of more efficient chips More efficient chips based on plasmonics are a step closer to reality through better control of the directional excitation of plasmons in a gold grating.
A*STAR researchers and their collaborators have generated electromagnetic waves known as surface plasmon polaritons in a gold grating
so called because they use plasmons--collective excitations of electrons in a conductor--rather than electrons to transfer
direction of plasmons in a gold grating both theoretically and experimentally. In the experiments, they moved the STM tip relative to the edge of the gold grating
"The STM tip acts as a point source of surface plasmons,"Yang explains.""When placed on a metal film,
electrons that tunnel across the gap can excite plasmons, although inefficiently.""Yang likens the excitation of plasmons in gratings to dropping pebbles in a swimming pool with swimming lanes demarcated by floats."
"What is interesting is that depending on how far we drop the pebble from the barrier for each lane,
"This control of direction stems from the surface plasmon polariton reflected from the grating edge interfering with the one at the STM probe.
The result provides point sources of surface plasmon polaritons. This could prove useful for developing ways to replace wires between chips with optical connectors,
The researchers intend to investigate the optical characteristics of the plasmon source when the electrically excited plasmons are coupled to plasmonic waveguides,
opening the way to plasmonic counterparts of electronic components.""Potentially, we hope to achieve logic gates, which underpin all processing circuits,
based on electrically driven plasmons,"says Dong g
#Artificial leaf harnesses sunlight for efficient fuel production Generating and storing renewable energy, such as solar or wind power, is a key barrier to a clean energy economy.
Plasma accelerator technology, which is also at an experimental stage right now, promises to produce even higher accelerations,
called a plasmon, that hugs the surface.""We design the surface to support a surface wave,
In the future, these infections will be prevented thanks to a new plasma implant coating that kills pathogens using silver ions.
in addition to combining it with a hydrophilic plasma polymer coating, which attracts moisture, "says Dr. Ingo Grunwald,
Researchers have integrated silver nanoparticles into the thin plasma polymer coating, which is up to just 100 nanometers thick.
with two plasma polymer layers surrounding a center layer of silver. Within this structure a biocide reservoir is formed
This allows the silver ions to penetrate the outermost plasma polymer layer over a set period of time deemed necessary to properly integrate the implant.
The test samples were coated using a plasma polymerization facility at the IFAM in Bremen. Researchers confirmed the mechanical stability
A demonstration unit of the plasma polymer coating is currently available. Researchers will be presenting a dental implant featuring the Dentaplas coating at the MEDICA trade fair in Düsseldorf from November 16-19 at the joint Fraunhofer booth t
Nanoscale Speed bump Could Regulate Plasmons for High-speed data Flow The name sounds like something Marvin the Martian might have built,
the innovation harnesses tiny electron waves called plasmons. It a step towards enabling computers to process information hundreds of times faster than today machines.
Unlike light, these plasmons are free to travel down nanoscale wires or gaps in metals.
Incoming plasmons, created by laser light at one end of the array, travel though this air gap between the bridges and the bottom gold layer.
slowing the plasmons. As the plasmons slow their wavelength becomes shorter, allowing more than an extra half of a plasmonic wave to fit under the bridge.
Because it exactly out of phase with the original wave, this additional half wavelength can be used to selectively cancel the wave,
Finally, the structures are treated with oxygen plasma to remove graphene. Scanning electron micrographs of the structures reveal extremely small nanogaps between the gold layers.
Raman spectroscopic measurements of the gold nanostructures reveal that small amounts of graphene still remain between the gold layers after being treated with oxygen plasma.
and lattice vibrations in a crystal of lithium niobate and to observe how a laser focused onto a glass plate creates a hot, rapidly expanding plume of plasma.
The blood samples would be spun on a simple mechanical device resembling an eggbeater to separate the plasma from the blood cells.
The plasma would then be placed into a test tube or other container with a pellet containing the modified E coli.
Once mixed with the plasma, the E coli would multiply, producing the color corresponding to the level of zinc in the blood plasma.
when the plasma sample is added, though we are hoping to accelerate that, said Styczynski. The testing wouldn be done to identify individuals in need of treatment,
The challenge is to contain the hot plasma and keep it stable; the fusion reactors of today,
California, said in early August that it has succeeded in keeping a high-energy plasma stable for five millisecondsuch less than the blink of an eye,
that fires two clouds of plasma at each other to form a ring of plasma. The magnetic field that holds the ring together is generated by the plasma itself technique known as a field-reversed configuration.
The plasma is sustained by the injection of high-energy particles from accelerators. The challenge for Tri Alpha design, says Binderbauer,
is ot enough and long enough? keeping the plasma stable at a high-enough temperature to achieve energy-positive fusion.
The recent experiment indicated that the companyhich has attracted millions of dollars in funding from investors including Goldman sachs and Vulcan Inc,
Making the plasma hot enough is the next key challenge. Next year, Tri Alpha will begin building a new
At MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center, a group headed by Dennis Whyte a professor of nuclear science and engineering and the center director, published a conceptual design in July for a machine called the ARC reactor (ffordable, robust, compact.
The novelty of the ARC design is the nature of the electromagnets that confine the plasma.
The researchers also envision a liquid lanketsurrounding the plasma that will absorb neutrons without damage
Increasing the amplitude of the surrounding magnetic field raises the amount of fusion power produced in the plasma to the fourth power dramatic increase that could lead to a commercial prototype in a matter of years,
Jonathan Menard, a plasma physicist at the Princeton Plasma physics Laboratory, directs the National Spherical Torus Experiment,
Plasmonics involves the control of light at the nanoscale using surface plasmons, which are coordinated waves,
Localized surface plasmons of metal nanostructures result in unique optical properties with characteristics that depend upon the metal composition,
These sparks knock atoms out of the material resulting in a plasma that emits multicolored light.
The plasma light is split into two beam channels and broken down into several wavebands like the colors of a rainbow
This reveals the nature and concentration of particles suspended in the plasma from which it is possible to derive information on the composition of the steel sample.
so that the instrument can distinguish between light emitted by te plasma and that emitted by the sparks.
We used magnetic beads of 3 micrometers in diameter to pull down the exosomes in plasma samples Zeng said.
In order to avoid other interfering species present in plasma the bead surface was modified chemically with an antibody that recognizes
The plasma containing magnetic beads then flows through the microchannels on the diagnostic chip in which the beads can be collected readily using a magnet to extract circulating exosomes from the plasma.
Beyond lung cancer Zeng said the lab-on-a-chip could be used to detect a range of potentially deadly forms of cancer.
Plasma levels of antibodies to Clpb and melanotropin were higher in these patients. Furthermore their immunological response determined the development of eating disorders in the direction of anorexia or bulimia.
The so-far-insurmountable challenge is to confine hydrogen plasma at conditions under which the hydrogen nuclei fuse together at levels that release a useful amount of energy.
Most research efforts use a method that tries to contain hot plasma within magnetic fields in a doughnut-shaped device called a tokamak.
This approach tries to contain plasma by reflecting particles from high-density magnetic fields to low-density ones.
The small team developing the reactor at the company s skunkworks in Palmdale California has done 200 firings with plasma Mcguire said
However he said of the plasma it looks like it s doing what it s supposed to do.
Helion Energy of Redmond Washington which is developing a system that attempts to use a combination of compression and magnetic confinement of plasma;
and Lawrenceville Plasma physics in Middlesex New jersey which is working on a reactor design that uses what s known as a dense plasma focus.
Another startup General Fusion based in Vancouver British columbia tries to control plasma using pistons to compress a swirling mass of molten lead
Oxygen plasma etches out the polymer leaving behind a lattice of hollow ceramic tubes. Greer s lab showed that by changing the thickness of the tube walls it s possible to control how the material fails.
#Plasmons Influence Carbon-Based Nanoparticles for Sensitizing Cancerous Tumors In a study published in EPJ D,
physicists have shown now that the production of low energy electrons by radio-sensitizers made of carbon nanostructures hinges on a key physical mechanism referred to as plasmons-collective excitations of so-called valence electrons;
Previous studies have revealed that gold and platinum nanoparticles produce a large number of electrons via the plasmon excitation mechanism.
For the first time, Harvard researchers have created similar wakes of light-like waves moving on a metallic surface, called surface plasmons,
"The creation and control of surface plasmon wakes could lead to new types of plasmonic couplers
Surface plasmons are confined to the surface of a metal. In order to create wakes through them, Capasso's team designed a faster-than-light running wave of charge along a one-dimensional metamaterial--like a powerboat speeding across a lake.
The metamaterial, a nanostructure of rotated slits etched into a gold film, changes the phase of the surface plasmons generated at each slit relative to each other
as"surface plasmons are not visible to the eye or cameras,"said co-lead author Antonio Ambrosio of SEAS and the Italian Research Council (CNR)."
we used an experimental technique that forces plasmons from the surface, collects them via fiber optics and records the image."
Daniel Feuermann and Jeffrey Gordon) that reconstitutes the immense brightness within the plasma of high-power xenon discharge lamps at a remote reactor,
The plasmon-trickfor this sleight of hand the researchers led by Leuthold and his doctoral student Christian Haffner who contributed to the development of the modulator, use a technical trick.
the light is turned first into so-called surface-plasmon-polaritons. Plasmon-polaritons are a combination of electromagnetic fields
and electrons that propagate along a surface of a metal strip. At the end of the strip they are converted back to light once again.
The advantage of this detour is that plasmon-polaritons can be confined in a much smaller space than the light they originated from.
but rather plasmon-polaritons that are sent through an interferometer that is only half a micrometer wide.
and hence the velocity of the plasmons in one arm of the interferometer can be varied,
After that, the plasmons are reconverted into light, which is fed into a fibre optic cable for further transmission.
and that thus modulates the plasmons inside the interferometer. As such a modulator is much smaller than conventional devices it consumes very little energy-only a few thousandth of Watts at a data transmission rate of 70 Gigabits per second.
The voxels are light emitted by plasma that created when the laser focused energy ionizes the air.
Ochiai says the most surprising thing he realized was that plasma was actually safe to touch in this application,
The interaction between liquid crystal molecules and plasmon waves on the nanostructured metallic surface played the key role in generating the polarization-independent
and these pulses ionise the air to create plasma which can be touched (pictured) The breakthrough was made by Japanese researchers from the University of Tokyo, University of Tsukuba, Utsunomiya University Nagoya Institute of technology.
Researchers and companies have used this technology to create plasma displays in the past but these involved lasers that pulse with bursts that last for nanoseconds, for example.
To solve this problem the Japanese researchers created plasma voxels using femtosecond lasers instead. A femtosecond is a quadrillionth of a second
since plasma induced by a femtosecond laser is safer than that generated by a nanosecond laser.'
This is because their research shows that the periodic holes on the surface of the silver film provides excitation of surface-plasmon polaritons (electromagnetic waves that travel along the surface of a metal-dielectric
and dsync+(TITECH/Georgia Tech) Near real-time plasma disruption detection using ADIOS (Princeton Plasma Research Lab/ORNL) Automated microscopy image analysis for cancer detection,
It was possible thanks to the use of plasma. In the Aerial Burton once noted that they created a device is absolutely safe for humans,
including those in contact with the plasma. Possibility to work with such displays provide lasers,
and in the process of ionization towards the plasma a air begins to emit light. To achieve this effect allowed the femtosecond laser pulse
For the first time, Harvard researchers have created similar wakes of light-like waves moving on a metallic surface, called surface plasmons,
"The creation and control of surface plasmon wakes could lead to new types of plasmonic couplers
Surface plasmons are confined to the surface of a metal. In order to create wakes through them, Capasso's team designed a faster-than-light running wave of charge along a one-dimensional metamaterialike a powerboat speeding across a lake.
The metamaterial, a nanostructure of rotated slits etched into a gold film, changes the phase of the surface plasmons generated at each slit relative to each other
as"surface plasmons are not visible to the eye or cameras,"said co-lead author Antonio Ambrosio of SEAS and the Italian Research Council (CNR)."
we used an experimental technique that forces plasmons from the surface, collects them via fiber optics and records the image."
An artistic rendition of the superluminal running wave of charge that excites the surface plasmon wakes.
Energy trapped on the surface of the nanocube in this fashion is called a plasmon. The plasmon creates an intense electromagnetic field between the silver nanocube
and a thin sheet of gold placed a mere 20 atoms away. This field interacts with quantum dotspheres of semiconducting material just six nanometers widehat are sandwiched in between the nanocube and the gold.
Energy trapped on the surface of the nanocube in this fashion is called a plasmon. The plasmon creates an intense electromagnetic field between the silver nanocube
and a thin sheet of gold placed a mere 20 atoms away. This field interacts with quantum dotspheres of semiconducting material just six nanometers widehat are sandwiched in between the nanocube and the gold.
#XEI Scientific and University of Southern California announce a publication in Advanced Materials on the use of downstream plasma cleaning The research team of Associate professor Stephen Cronin is located in the Ming Hseih Department of Electrical engineering
The paper describes how gentle oxygen plasma treatment produces direct bandgap transition in many-layer Mos2.*
*The authors (Rohan Dhall et al) chose to use the XEI Evactron Soft Clean plasma cleaner for the process.
Here, the plasma is generated by flowing room air past an electrode supplied with 20 W of RF power at 200 mtorr.
Samples are placed 6-10 cm away from the plasma source. Ionized oxygen atoms diffuse towards the sample chamber with low kinetic energies.
Samples were exposed to the O2 plasma for about three minutes. While typical plasma cleaners used in semiconductor fabrication operate using a"sputtering"mechanism where the sample is bombarded with ions carrying significant kinetic energy
remote plasma cleaners rely mainly on the chemical reactivity of the ionized oxygen to remove surface contaminants.
Analytical techniques including photoluminescence spectroscopy (PL), Raman spectroscopy, atomic force microscopy (AFM), and electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS) are used to follow the effects of the plasma treatments on a range of samples having different numbers of layers.
The authors successfully demonstrate the generation of an indirect-to-direct bandgap transition in many-layer Mos2 through the use of an easy to use, scalable oxygen induced plasma process.
The direct gap semiconductor show a significantly enhanced PL emission due to the efficient absorption of light in direct gap materials
The solution Boyd hit upon was to use a system first developed in the 1960s to generate a hydrogen plasma--that is
The team thinks one reason their technique is so efficient is that a chemical reaction between the hydrogen plasma
But graphene growth with the plasma technique is more orderly. The graphene deposits form lines that then grow into a seamless sheet,
A scaled-up version of their plasma technique could open the door for new kinds of electronics manufacturing,
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In graphene, infrared light launches ripples through the electrons at the surface of this metallike material called surface plasmon polaritons that the researchers were able to control using a simple electrical circuit.
The interaction between liquid crystal molecules and plasmon waves on the nanostructured metallic surface played the key role in generating the polarization-independent
said Janssen, a postdoctoral researcher in the Sumita Pennathur Lab at UC Santa barbara. With only a minimal amount of human plasma,
or vials of plasma down to technology that would require less than a single drop. He worked more than two years in industry, developing lab-on-a-chip technology for Medimate B. V,
The team mixed blood plasma from mice and, separately humans with magnetic aapcs bearing antigens from tumors.
They then ran the plasma through a magnetic column. The tumor-fighting T cells bound to aapcs and stuck to the sides of the column,
including metallic nanoparticles that convert light into plasmons, waves of electrons that flow like a fluid across the particles'surface.
Daniel Feuermann and Jeffrey Gordon) that reconstitutes the immense brightness within the plasma of high-power xenon discharge lamps at a remote reactor,
Light interaction with graphene produces particles called plasmons while light interacting with hbn produces phonons.
the plasmons and phonons can couple, producing a strong resonance. The properties of the graphene allow precise control over light,
This produces a plasma consisting of carbon ions, which is deposited as a coating on the workpiece in the vacuum.
The cylinder is converted evenly into plasma thanks to the scanning motion and rotation. To ensure a consistently smooth coating
a magnetic field guides the plasma and filters out any particles of dirt. The laser arc method can be used to deposit very thick ta-C coatings of up to 20 micrometers at high coating rates.
which can easily create self-ordered arrays of sub-20 nm features through simple spin-coating and plasma treatments.
The interaction between liquid crystal molecules and plasmon waves on the nanostructured metallic surface played the key role in generating the polarization-independent
Energy trapped on the surface of the nanocube in this fashion is called a plasmon. The plasmon creates an intense electromagnetic field between the silver nanocube
and a thin sheet of gold placed a mere 20 atoms away. This field interacts with quantum dots--spheres of semiconducting material just six nanometers wide--that are sandwiched in between the nanocube and the gold.
The plasmon-trick For this sleight of hand the researchers led by Leuthold and his doctoral student Christian Haffner
the light is turned first into so-called surface-plasmon-polaritons. Plasmon-polaritons are a combination of electromagnetic fields
and electrons that propagate along a surface of a metal strip. At the end of the strip they are converted back to light once again.
The advantage of this detour is that plasmon-polaritons can be confined in a much smaller space than the light they originated from.
but rather plasmon-polaritons that are sent through an interferometer that is only half a micrometer wide.
and hence the velocity of the plasmons in one arm of the interferometer can be varied,
After that, the plasmons are reconverted into light, which is fed into a fibre optic cable for further transmission.
and that thus modulates the plasmons inside the interferometer. As such a modulator is much smaller than conventional devices it consumes very little energy-only a few thousandth of Watts at a data transmission rate of 70 Gigabits per second.
patterns or elements that enable unprecedented control of light by harnessing clouds of electrons called surface plasmons.
SCHIZOPHRENIA BIPOLAR OR MANIACO-DEPRESSION, HOW PLASMA PROTEINS PRODUCE THE CONDITION AT THE BRAIN CELLS'LEVEL OF CHEMICAL IMBALANCE,
#Aussie student proves existence of plasma tubes floating above Earth AN AUSTRALIAN scientist has discovered that giant, invisible,
moving plasma tubes fill the skies above Earth. It a finding that was met initially with a considerable degree of scepticism within the field of astrophysics,
Ms Loi has proven that the Earth atmosphere is embedded with these strangely shaped, tubular plasma structures.
and we are transitioning to the plasma of outer space. e saw a striking pattern in the sky where stripes of high-density plasma neatly alternated with stripes of low-density plasma.
Ms Loi said the drifting plasma tubes could distort astronomical data, especially satellite-based navigation systems.
The voxels are light emitted by plasma that's created when the laser's focused energy ionizes the air.
although some participants thought the plasma felt a little like a static shock. This isn't the first attempt at using femtosecond lasers to form air plasma,
says Chunlei Guo, professor of optics and physics at the University of Rochester, but the study should help in designing future femtosecond laser displays.
Ochiai says the most surprising thing he realized was that plasma was actually safe to touch in this application
The wearable tech for wellness uses Cold Plasma a patented technology to split oxygen and water molecules into free radicals.
and by standard RT-PCR (performed on plasma in the laboratory). Both RDT (on whole blood) and RT-PCR (on plasma) were performed also on 284 samples in the laboratory.
The RDT detected all confirmed cases of Ebola that were positive by RT-PCR in both point-of-care (28/105 patients)
They're made using tiny points of plasma light called voxels, that are created when the focused energy of a laser ionises the surrounding air.
"Our results led to calmer and safer plasma generation that can be incorporated into our daily lives."
and even plasmas stated Junhwan Kim a graduate student at Illinois and first author of the paper Nonreciprocal Brillouin Scattering Induced Transparency appearing in the journal Nature Physics.
The self-assembled pattern served as a template for forming posts in the solar cell like those in the moth eye using a plasma of reactive gases-a technique commonly used in the manufacture of semiconductor electronic circuits.
Novel method for controlling plasma rotation confirmed Such a method could prove important for future facilities like ITER,
Rotation can stabilize instabilities in plasma, and sheared rotation--the difference in velocities between two bands of rotating plasma--can suppress plasma turbulence,
making it possible to maintain the gas's high temperature with less power and reduced operating costs.
Today's tokamaks produce rotation mainly by heating the plasma with neutral beams which cause it to spin.
however, rotating particles that leak from the edge of the plasma accelerate the plasma in the opposite direction,
Stoltzfus-Dueck and his team influenced intrinsic rotation by moving the so-called X-point--the dividing point between magnetically confined plasma
and plasma that has leaked from confinement--on the Tokamak à Configuration Variable (TCV) in Lausanne, Switzerland.
The experiments marked the first time that researchers had moved the X-point horizontally to study plasma rotation.
The results confirmed calculations that Stoltzfus-Dueck had published in a 2012 paper showing that moving the X-point would cause the confined plasma to either halt its intrinsic rotation
but modified rotation within the superhot core of the plasma where fusion reactions occur. The results indicate that scientists can use the X-point as a"control knob"to adjust the inner workings of fusion plasmas,
much like changing the settings on itunes or a stereo lets one explore the behavior of music.
"Why do plasmas rotate in the way they do? It's a puzzle. z
#Sweeping lasers snap together nanoscale geometric grids Now, scientists at the U s. Department of energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have developed a new technique to rapidly create nano-structured grids for functional materials with unprecedented versatility."
despite the fiery sheaths of superhot plasma around them, researchers say. The technology might also help keep communication lines open to other hypersonic vehicles,
This so-called"plasma sheath"acts as a mirror against electromagnetic signals under most conditions cutting off radio communications with anything outside the vehicle.
because sharp-nosed vehicles have thinner plasma sheaths than blunt-nosed ones. But sometimes, blunt-nosed bodies are preferable
Other approaches involve using magnetic fields to control the plasma sheath or injecting water or other liquids into the plasma sheath to make it more permeable to radio signals,
but these methods require extra power and weight, respectively. Now, Gao and his colleague Binhao Jiang, also of the Harbin Institute of technology, reveal they might be able to use the plasma sheath itself to enhance signals from antennas to maintain communications during hypersonic flight."
"We may have found a novel approach to solve the communication blackout problem, "Gao told Space. com. The researchers explained that,
In combination with the plasma sheath this"matched layer"would generate resonant conditions during hypersonic flight,
For the resonance to work, the thickness of this matched layer and the plasma sheath must be smaller than the wavelengths of the radio signals used for communication, the scientists noted.
The properties of the plasma sheath can vary during flight, complicating any efforts to generate resonance,
"We don't need to know exactly the properties of the plasma layer, but we need to know the ranges for these properties,
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