The researchers are currently using this method to investigate ideal proportions for the most efficient transfer of light to electricity.

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The practical applications could improve the efficiency of quantum computers, where light is often used to transfer information.

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The processors still use electrical circuits, but the chips convert the electrical information to light pulses, which then transfer between chips.

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The advance provides evidence to support a controversial idea, called multiple-exciton generation (MEG), which theorizes that it is possible for an electron that has absorbed light energy, called an exciton, to transfer that energy to more than one electron, resulting in more electricity from the same amount of absorbed light.

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When I plugged a Linksys unit into an outlet near three light dimmers and a hair dryer, file transfer speed was cut in half, but dimmers or dryer alone brought the speed down just 25%, to roughly Wi-Fi rates.

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And Benitez did not take long to return to the Barry transfer saga following Liverpool's win at the Stadium of Light.

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The researchers suggested this failure to transfer may be down to a lack of parental involvement or the "light touch" nature of the interventions.

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The 6-foot-5, 226-pound Allen was given the green light by the Sooners after last season to explore other opportunities and is expected to transfer to Syracuse for his final year of eligibility, which would make him available to play for the Orange in the fall.

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The workshop stressed the importance of Database's objective as an instrument to protect cultural heritage, by fighting against looting, theft, illegal export and import in the light of the UNESCO Convention of 1970 on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property and of the UNESCO Convention of 2001 on the Protection of Underwater Cultural Heritage.

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