Tag Archive for 'Germanium'

The modified Majorana module in the assembly glovebox with germanium detector crystals and tantalum samples installed. Image credit: Majorana Collaboration.

Nuclear Physicists Searching for Decay of Tantalum-180m

Mar 20, 2024 by News Staff

Tantalum-180m (180mTa), a rare isotope of tantalum whose decay has never been observed, is expected to have a lifetime approximately 1 million times longer...

The Mörigen arrowhead. Image credit: Thomas Schüpbach.

2,800-Year-Old Arrowhead Was Made of Meteoritic Iron, Archaeologists Say

Aug 11, 2023 by Natali Anderson

The detection of the cosmogenic isotope aluminum-26; the concentrations of nickel, cobalt, germanium and gallium; and the presence of two minerals called...

In this illustration, one photon (purple) carries a million times the energy of another (yellow). Image credit: NASA / Sonoma State University / Aurore Simonnet.

Physicists Observe ‘Billions of Billions’ of Entangled Electrons

Jan 17, 2020 by News Staff

An international team of physicists says they have observed quantum entanglement among ‘billions of billions’ of flowing electrons in thin films of...

STM image reveals honeycomb structure of germanene. Image credit: M E Dávila et al.

Germanene: European Scientists Synthesize New Cousin of Graphene

Sep 10, 2014 by News Staff

A team of scientists from Spain, Germany and France has managed to synthesize graphene’s cousin – an atom-thin, ordered, two-dimensional material...