Press Releases for AIP Advances

Public Release: 12-Mar-2012
Laser lightning rod: Guiding bursts of electricity with a flash of light
Lightning is a fascinating but dangerous atmospheric phenomenon. New research reveals that brief bursts of intense laser light can redirect these high-power electrical discharges.

Triggering, guiding and deviation of long air spark discharges with femtosecond laser filament
B. Forestier, A. Houard, I. Revel, M. Durand, Y. B. André, B. Prade, A. Jarnac, J. Carbonnel, M. Le Nevé, J. C. de Miscault, B. Esmiller, D. Chapuis, and A. Mysyrowicz
AIP Advances 2, 012151 (2012)

Public Release: 24-Oct-2011
Biosensing tool to detect salmonella holds promise for preventing common food poisoning
Food poisoning from salmonella bacteria is a worldwide public health hazard. Carbon nanotubes combined with immune system molecules have yielded a highly sensitive and specific biosensor surveillance tool that may one ...

A carbon nanotube immunosensor for Salmonella
Mitchell B. Lerner, Brett R. Goldsmith, Ronald McMillon, Jennifer Dailey, Shreekumar Pillai, Shree R. Singh, and A. T. Charlie Johnson
AIP Advances 1, 042127 (2011)

Public Release: 12-Sep-2011
'Oscar Madison' approach to solar cells may outshine 'Felix Unger' design
Sometimes neatness may not be necessary. Researchers have demonstrated that a tangled coating of randomly positioned nanowires can increase solar cell efficiency by absorbing more light.

Graded index and randomly oriented core-shell silicon nanowires for broadband and wide angle antireflection
P. Pignalosa, H. Lee, L. Qiao, M. Tseng, and Y. Yi
AIP Advances 1, 032124 (2011)

Public Release: 15-Aug-2011
New device exposes explosive vapors
Researchers have designed an ultra-portable device to detect trace amounts of explosives such as TNT. The prototype is sensitive and inexpensive, and may one day be adapted to help clear dangerous landmines.

Ultra-portable explosives sensor based on a CMOS florescence lifetime analysis micro-system
Yue Wang, Bruce R. Rae, Robert K. Henderson, Zheng Gong, Jonathan Mckendry, Erdan Gu, Martin D. Dawson, Graham A. Turnbull, and Ifor D.W. Samuel
AIP Advances 1, 032115 (2011)

Public Release: 8-Jun-2011
Ordered fear plays a strong role in market chaos
When the current financial crisis hit, the failure of traditional economic doctrines to provide any sort of early warning shocked not only financial experts worldwide, but also governments and the general public, and we all began to question the effectiveness and validity of those doctrines. A research team based in Israel decided to investigate what went awry, searching for order in an apparently random system. They report their findings in the American Institute of Physics' journal AIP Advances.

Hidden temporal order unveiled in stock market volatility variance
Y. Shapira, D. Y. Kenett, Ohad Raviv, and E. Ben-Jacob
AIP Advances 1, 022127 (2011)