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Entries from May 14th, 2009

UCLA Physicists Create World’s Smallest Incandescent Lamp

May 14th, 2009 · No Comments · Chemistry

Chris Regan and his team at UCLA have created a light bulb that “is very similar to Edison’s, except that their filament is 100,000 times narrower and 10,000 times shorter, for a total volume only one one-hundred-trillionth that of Edison’s. “  The filament is only 100 atoms of carbon wide. When it is turned on, [...]

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