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Physics World Instruments & Vacuum Briefing 2020

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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Radar apparatus on an aeroplane feature

The future of flying antennas

Optical detector research update

Microwave timing signals get hundredfold boost in stability

Dark mirror research update

Dark-field microscopes made easy

Dr Ivan Borzenets research update

Kondo cloud seen at last

Saharan-pottery-article research update

New technique uses food residues to date prehistoric pottery

electron river research update

Electrons flow like water in ultra-pure graphene

African elephants research update

Tracking elephant rumbles without breaking the bank

Christof Gaiser standing next to a complicated set of metal tubes and wires suspended from the ceiling to a research update

Gas-pressure standard gets down to fundamentals

Conceptual diagram showing a piece of copper with a thermometer attached to it, floating above a surface marked by fluctuations research update

Quantum calorimeter is as precise as nature allows

single molecule magnet lab research update

Superconductor transition switches single-molecule magnet

Cancer detecting dog research update

Getting inside a dog’s nose with mass spectrometry

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