1933), a German-born radio astronomer, joined Bell Labs in 1958. He had done his PhD on using masers (microwave amplification by stimulated emission of radiation) to amplify and measure radio ...

The basic element of the early masers was gaseous ammonia; the latest models make use of crystals It is a quantum-mechanical device which amplifies very short radio waves with extraordinary fidelity.

Charles Townes played a crucial role in the invention and realization of the first masers and lasers, for which he shared the 1964 Nobel Prize in Physics. Nature Materials speaks to him about his ...

The final Masters 1000 tournament of the ATP season will reach its conclusion this weekend. The players have been battling it ...

As they are often found in gas-rich mergers, it has been suggested that OH masers constitute an important signpost of dust-obscured star formation. However, dust-embedded AGN also provide suitable ...

In the late 90s and early 2000s, his pioneering studies utilizing high spatial resolution observations from the first generation large-format mid-infrared detectors led to a fundamental understanding ...

REGAL Legends and Fisherman Masters emerged the respective winners of the Legends Over-50 and Masers Over-40 feature four-team, one-day softball feature ...

Compact luxury SUVs are to this decade what Hansel was to the fictional fashion world in 2000: so hot right now. As ...

Time standards and frequency standards can include cesium or rubidium atomic clocks, quartz oscillators, hydrogen masers and other master clocks. Time reference sources are used in networks & ...

Since the appearance of the first edition almost exactly three years ago, the first optical masers (lasers) have been developed. By means of these devices very intense and highly coherent light beams ...

The idea was to reduce the high cost of installing and maintaining hydrogen masers at each antenna site by instead delivering radiofrequency (RF) reference signals from a single site to multiple ...

1933), a German-born radio astronomer, joined Bell Labs in 1958. He had done his PhD on using masers (microwave amplification by stimulated emission of radiation) to amplify and measure radio ...