Story Tips From the DoE's Oak Ridge National Laboratory May 2010
Thursday, May 6, 2010 - 12:05
in Physics & Chemistry
In combat situations, communication is critical, and a system being developed would put U.S. forces in command. Catching violators while keeping safe truckers on schedule is the focus of a program and system recently installed at weigh stations in South Carolina and Mississippi. Each year ORNL hosts about 3,000 guest researchers. Experiments using band-excitation scanning probe microscopy are providing clues to the origins of unique properties of spin and cluster glasses, phase-separated oxides, polycrystalline ferroelectrics and ferromagnets.