sonoluminescence

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• - To investigate the physical processes underlying the phenomenon of sonoluminescence, researchers attempted to measure the diameter and duration of single sonoluminescence flashes.
  
• - Short discussion on the radius of a bubble undergoing sonoluminescence as a function of time.
  
• - Provides background on how sonoluminescence can be used in chemistry.
  
• - Developing a Sonofusion power generator which harnesses the energy in sonoluminescence to provide the necessary temperatures for fusion reactions.
  
• - Provides detailed instructions on how to produce single and multi bubble sonoluminescence.
  
• - Accepted for publication in 1996, this paper describes how a bimodal sound excitation can enhance light production.
  
• - From 1999, provides results and experimental setup.
  
• - Maker of sonoluminescence kits. Provides instructions and suggested experiments.
  
• - Provides diagrams of what sonoluminescence may look like close up.
  
• - W.A. Steer's account of his work to construct apparatus to enable the observation of sonoluminescence, to investigate its basic properties, and leave a kit and instructions to form the basis of a future final-year undergraduate experiment.
  
• - Provides a four step theory on sonoluminescence.
  
• - Describes the connection between the Casimir effect and sonoluminescence. Full text in PDF, PS and DVI file formats.
  
• - Proposes to study sonoluminescence in space and in microgravity.
  
• - A summary of the history and prevailing theories of sonoluminescence are presented. Details of the constructed rig are given, with reasons for the choices of each piece of equipment. Although sonoluminescence was not obtained, the work did solve some of t
  
• - Answers to questions "What is sonoluminescence?", "Why is it so interesting?" and "What do we know about it?"
  
• - Provides explaination of why it is unlikely that sonoluminescence produces the conditions necessary to initiate or facilitate nuclear fusion, as suggested in the movie "Chain Reaction"?
  
• - Provides abstracts for a symposium held at the University of Chicago in 1997.