A BOOST FOR SOLAR CELLS WITH PHOTON FUSION
Date: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 @ 21:34:34 GMT
Topic: Science
An innovative process that converts low-energy longwave photons (light
particles) into higher-energy shortwave photons has been developed by a team of
researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz and at the
Sony Materials Science Laboratory in Stuttgart. With the skillful combination of
two light-active substances, the scientists have, for the first time,
manipulated normal light, such as sunlight, to combine the energy in photons
with particular wavelengths (Physical Review Letters, October 4).
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news79796665.html
PARTICLE
DECAY MAY POINT TO NEW PHYSICS, October 11
A tiny flaw has caught the
attention of physicists: the Standard Model (SM) predicts that the B meson
mixing phase should be measured at nearly the same result using two different
classes of decay modes. However, observations of the two different decay modes
recently gave very different values, resulting in an unexpectedly large
discrepancy in the B mixing phase.
Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news79793376.html
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