Science news articles about 'silica glass'

  • Storage technology developed for fused silica glass to record and read digital data in the order of CD recording density

    ... -perpetual storage of digital data in fused silica glass which is known for its high resistance to heat ... multiple recording layers within the fused silica by changing the focal point of the laser. In the current ...
  • New electrostatic-based DNA microarray technique could revolutionize medical diagnostics

    ... -charged microscopic beads or spheres made of silica (glass) across the surface of a DNA microarray ... or background surface of the microassay is positively charged, the silica microspheres will spread across the entire surface ...
  • New insight to demineralization

    ... theory would say that the durability of amorphous solids, such as silica glasses, should change by a simple proportion ... , the paper explains this paradox and the dissolution behavior of silica glasses manufactured by different processes, a natural ...
  • A new 'Pyrex' nanoparticle

    ... environments than currently used nanoparticles made of polymers or silica glass. Their introduction could extend the range of potential ... (the original "Pyrex") instead of silica glass or polymers would overcome these limitations, but fabrication has been impossible ...
  • Silicon optical fiber made practical

    ... certain nonlinear properties (in which the output is not proportional to the input) that are many orders of magnitude larger than for conventional silica glass. This would, for example, allow for the amplification ...
  • New organic material may speed Internet access

    ... a compromise," he says. The DDMEBT bulk material possesses 1,000 times the nonlinearity of silica glass. This organic material, however, is difficult ...
  • Light at the speed of a bicycle and much more

    ... has already had a revolutionary effect on all of our everyday lives. From optical fibres, hair-like strands of silica glass that transmit vast amounts of data ...
  • Researchers demystify glasses by studying crystals

    ... between extreme types – "strong" liquids, like the silica glass that optical fibers are made from, and "fragile ... to be had. Angell points out that if optical fiber glasses, being silica or silica-like, have shorter range organization ...
  • New kind of optical fiber developed

    ... wavelengths, specifically those in the mid-infrared." Unlike silica glass, which traditionally is used in optical fibers, zinc ... zinc selenide waveguiding cores inside of silica glass capillaries to form the new class ...

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