Every facet of the modern electrical grid is controlled by computers. It is our greatest example of physical infrastructure interlinked with electronics. The Stuxnet virus that infected Iran’s nuclear program showed just how vulnerable machines could be to a well-crafted electronic virus. The grid shares many of the vulnerabilities that Stuxnet exposed; being larger, its vulnerabilities are, if...

K. Sourbelle, H. Kudo, G. Lauritsch, K.C. Tam, M. Defrise and F. Noo Institute of Medical Physics, University of Erlangen, 91054 Erlangen, Germany Institute of Information Sciences and Electronics, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba 305-8573, Japan Siemens Medical Solutions, P.O. Box 3260, 91050 Erlangen, Germany Siemens Corporate Research, Inc., Princeton, NJ 08540, USA Division of Nuclear Medicin...

In this paper I shall argue that the search for fundamental knowledge, motivated by curiosity, is as useful as the search for solutions to specific problems. The reasons we have practical computers now, and did not have them 100 years ago, is not that meanwhile we have discovered the need for computers. It is because of discoveries in fundamental physics which underwrite modern electronics, dev...

S-C. Chiu, C-J. Juan, H-W. Chung, C-C. Cheng, H-C. Chang, H-C. Chiu, C-H. Hsu, C-Y. Chen, and G-S. Huang Biomedical Electronics and Bioinformatics, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Radiology, Tri-Service General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Applied Science Laboratory, GE Healthcare, Taipei, China, People's Republic of, Department of Nuclear Medicine, Tri-Service General Ho...

Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) is a next generation liquid scintillator neutrino experiment under construction phase in South China. Thanks to the anti-neutrinos produced by nearby nuclear power plants, JUNO will be able study mass hierarchy, one of open key questions physics. One ingredient for successful measurement use high speed, resolution sampling electronics located ver...

Hervé Leblond, Boris A. Malomed, and Dumitru Mihalache Laboratoire de Photonique d’Angers, EA 4464, Université d’Angers, 2 Bd Lavoisier, 49000 Angers, France Department of Physical Electronics, School of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel ICFO-Institut de Ciencies Fotoniques, Mediterranean Technology Park, 08860 Castelldefels (Barcelona),...

J. Trull,1 L. Maigyte,1 V. Mizeikis,2 M. Malinauskas,3 S. Juodkazis,4 C. Cojocaru,1 M. Rutkauskas,3 M. Peckus,3 V. Sirutkaitis,3 and K. Staliunas1,5 1Departament de Fı́sica i Enginyeria Nuclear, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Colom 11, E-08222 Terrassa, Barcelona, Spain 2Division of Global Research Leaders (Research Institute of Electronics), Shizuoka University, 3-5-1 Johoku, Naka-ku, Ha...

Because of its unique properties, beryllium has become widely used in a variety of industrial applications, including inertial guidance systems, turbine rotor blades, laser tubes, rocket engine liners, springs, aircraft brakes and landing gear, ball bearings, injection and blow mold tooling, electrical contacts, automotive electronics, X-ray tube windows, spark plugs, electrical components, cer...