Future electronic devices will depend upon materials built up
from multiple layers, each only a few billionths of a meter
thick. To study the chemical and magnetic properties of these
hidden nanolayers, scientists have devised an ingenious technique
known as soft
x-ray standing-wave spectroscopy.
Feature Stories
Hotter
summers, more heat-related deaths, and water and energy
shortages are on the way unless Californians change their habits.
At a rocket factory deep in the Ural Mountains, Russian scientists are working on their newest prototypes: not secret weapons but compact wind turbines that could bring electricity to the nomads of Mongolia. It's another success story in DOE's program of Initiatives for Proliferation Prevention.
Greening the Supercomputer
Three billion years ago nature solved the problem of extracting
energy from the sun by evolving wonderfully clean
and efficient photosynthesis. Now a million hours of computer
time, courtesy of DOE's INCITE program, may help scientists
gain a better understanding of how photosynthesis works at the
molecular and electronic levels.
October
4, 2004
