Artist's impression of Rydberg atoms converting a microwave field into an optical beam (Source: M. Mazelanik, University of Warsaw) Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the ...

“These atoms are exquisitely sensitive to black-body radiation,” explains NIST’s Christopher Holloway, who headed the work. Central to the new apparatus is a magneto-optical trap inside a vacuum ...

A favourable feature of magnetometers with a small vapour cell is their reduced sensitivity ... of levels of spatial quantization in atoms. Application to the Stern and Gerlach and magnetic ...

The observed rate of growth indicates that an atom from the vapour phase that hits the crystal ... sticking probability of order unity, or that atoms adsorbed in a 'wrong' place on the crystal ...

Each hydrogen molecule is made up of two hydrogen atoms. In hydrogen cars hydrogen ... The only waste product of this process is water vapour. In petrol and diesel cars, the burning of fuel ...

Physical vapour deposition (PVD) is fundamentally a vaporisation coating ... In these cases, the target will consist of the metal. The atoms of metal will then react with the appropriate gas during ...