Science news articles about 'radiation pressure'

... move a semiconductor device." "When researchers talk about optical forces, they are generally referring to the radiation pressure light applies in the direction of the flow of light," said Tang. "The ...

... stars produce so much light that the radiation pressure they exert on the gas and dust around ... star. "Logically, we thought the massive amounts of radiation pressure would stop the star in its tracks ...

... don't yet understand why." McClintock said materials escaping from Mercury's surface are accelerated by solar radiation pressure to form a gigantic tail of atoms flowing away from the sun. Their ...

... and repulsive light forces Tang's team discovered are separate from the force created by light's radiation pressure, which pushes against an object as light shines on it. Instead, they push out or ...

... in smoke. "This fine dust is usually removed through collisions among the particles, radiation pressure from the star's light and other forces," explained Debes. "The drag from interstellar gas just ...

... be ejected into the planet's wispy atmosphere, he said. Some of the atoms are then accelerated by solar radiation pressure into the gigantic gas cloud tail, while other drift back down to the planet ...

... the air and polymer is believed to generate an imbalance in phonon flux that causes a radiation pressure that destabilizes the film, allowing pillar formation," says Troian. "Their mechanism is the ...