Physics World Instruments & Vacuum Briefing 2020
The articles in this free-to-read Physics World Instruments and Vacuum Briefing testify to the central role that precise, accurate and creative measurements – many of them made in the teeth of hefty technological challenges – play in advancing scientific knowledge. By extension, the issue also celebrates the tools that make such measurements possible. The issue covers breakthroughs in: vacuum and cryogenics, metrology, spectroscopy, and quantum.
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The future of flying antennas
Microwave timing signals get hundredfold boost in stability
Dark-field microscopes made easy
Kondo cloud seen at last
New technique uses food residues to date prehistoric pottery
Electrons flow like water in ultra-pure graphene
Tracking elephant rumbles without breaking the bank
Gas-pressure standard gets down to fundamentals
Quantum calorimeter is as precise as nature allows
Superconductor transition switches single-molecule magnet
Getting inside a dog’s nose with mass spectrometry
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