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		<title>Berkeley Lab Wins Four 2009 R&#038;D 100 Awards</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Berkeley Lab won four of R&#038;D Magazine’s R&#038;D 100 Awards for 2009, which recognize the 100 most significant proven technological advances of the year. This year's winners offer the promise of cost-competitive solar cells, more computer memory at less cost, an unmatched look at atomic scale matter in 3-D, and a more powerful way to find hidden energy sources.]]></description>
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		<title>Using Lasers and X-rays to Reveal the Motion of Atoms and Electrons</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 20:35:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Nanopillars Promise Cheap, Efficient, Flexible Solar Cells</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:16:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Researchers in Berkeley Lab's Materials Sciences Division and at UC Berkeley have made efficient, cheap, flexible solar cells by growing dense 3-D arrays of single-crystal semiconductors on a prepatterned aluminum substrate. The nanoscale pillars are embedded in a complementary transparent semiconductor that serves as a window. The solar cells are made bendable by embedding them in clear plastic. ]]></description>
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		<title>Nanocrystals Reveal Activity Within Cells</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 16:29:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Berkeley Lab scientists have created bright, stable and bio-friendly nanocrystals that act as individual investigators of activity within a cell. These ideal light emitting probes represent a significant step in scrutinizing the behaviors of proteins and other components in complex systems such as a living cell.]]></description>
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		<title>Bilayer Graphene Gets a Bandgap</title>
		<link>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/press-releases/2009/06/10/graphene-bandgap/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 16:46:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The electron mobility and other unique features of graphene hold great promise for nanoscale electronics and photonics, but graphene has no bandgap. Now Berkeley Lab researchers have engineered a bandgap in bilayer graphene that can be precisely controlled from 0 to .25 electron volts at room temperature, making possible new kinds of nanotransistors and nanoscale optical devices in the infrared range.]]></description>
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		<title>Green Chemistry: Using Lasers to Detect Explosives and Hazardous Waste</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 22:18:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New technology uses laser ablation — the use of laser pulses to vaporize small amounts of material — to test for hazardous wastes and explosives while generating almost no chemical waste. The technology can save the lives of soldiers, keep children safe from toys illegally coated with lead paints, and protect workers from chemical poisoning.]]></description>
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		<title>Blurring the Line Between Magic and Science: Berkeley Researchers Create an “Invisibility Cloak”</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 15:10:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Berkeley researchers have taken a major step towards a true invisibility device with the creation of a carpet cloak from nanostructured silicon that conceals the presence of objects placed under it from optical detection. This new cloak suggests that true invisibility materials are within reach.]]></description>
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		<title>New Path to Enhancing Solar Cell Efficiency</title>
		<link>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/feature-stories/2009/04/02/new-path-to-enhancing-solar-cell-efficiency/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 21:37:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Researchers at Berkeley Lab and Stanford University have developed a new method to characterize how a single photon can create multiple charge carriers—a phenomenon that could be used to develop more efficient solar cells.]]></description>
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		<title>Keep On Spinning</title>
		<link>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/press-releases/2009/04/01/keep-on-spinning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 22:43:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Berkeley Lab researchers have taken a major step forward in the technology of spintronics by creating the "persistent spin helix," which allows them to control the spin states of highly mobile electrons at different locations in a semiconductor and turn the collective state on and off at will. The discovery represents a new conservation law, an important advance in fundamental physics. ]]></description>
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		<title>SPRING “BLOCKBUSTER” MOVIE NOW SHOWING: Berkeley Scientists Produce First Live Action Movie of Individual Carbon Atoms in Action</title>
		<link>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/press-releases/2009/03/26/atoms-in-action/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 18:32:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Berkeley Lab researchers have made the first ever live action movie of the dynamics of atoms. Working with TEAM 0.5, the world’s most powerful transmission electron microscope, they recorded a movie showing in real-time carbon atoms repositioning themselves around the edge of a hole punched into a graphene sheet. Their results bode well for the spintronic dreams of the electronics industry. ]]></description>
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