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Toward quantum chips
Jan 13, 2015 (SPX)
A team of researchers has built an array of light detectors sensitive enough to register the arrival of individual light particles, or photons, and mounted them...
Quantum optical hard drive breakthrough
Jan 11, 2015 (SPX)
Scientists developing a prototype quantum hard drive have improved storage time by a factor of more than 100. The team's record storage time of six hours is a m...
Know when to fold 'em
Jan 11, 2015 (SPX)
For over a half-century, games have been test beds for new ideas in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the resulting successes have marked significant milestones ...
Shedding light on why blue LEDS are so tricky to make
Jan 08, 2015 (SPX)
Scientists at UCL, in collaboration with groups at the University of Bath and the Daresbury Laboratory, have uncovered the mystery of why blue light-emitting di...
The fractional quantum Hall effect helps progress computing applications
Jan 07, 2015 (SPX)
The Hall effect, discovered in 1879, is observable when a Hall voltage perpendicular to the current is produced across a conductor under a magnetic field. Altho...
Atoms queue up for quantum computer networks
Jan 06, 2015 (SPX)
In order to develop future quantum computer networks, it is necessary to hold a known number of atoms and read them without them disappearing. To do this, resea...
Piezoelectricity in a 2-D semiconductor
Dec 29, 2014 (SPX)
A door has been opened to low-power off/on switches in micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) and nanoelectronic devices, as well as ultrasensitive bio-sensors...
Instant-start computers possible with new breakthrough
Dec 19, 2014 (SPX)
To encode data, today's computer memory technology uses electric currents - a major limiting factor for reliability and shrinkability, and the source of signifi...
Switching to spintronics
Dec 18, 2014 (SPX)
In a development that holds promise for future magnetic memory and logic devices, researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Lawrence Berkeley Natio...
Room temp quantum optics chip geneates tunable photon-pair spectrum
Dec 17, 2014 (SPX)
A team of researchers from the University of California, San Diego have demonstrated a way to emit and control quantum light generated using a chip made from si...
Stanford team combines logic, memory to build a 'high-rise' chip
Dec 16, 2014 (SPX)
For decades, the mantra of electronics has been smaller, faster, cheaper. Today, Stanford engineers add a fourth word - taller. At a conference in San Francisco...
Organic electronics could lead to cheap, wearable medical sensors
Dec 11, 2014 (SPX)
Future fitness trackers could soon add blood-oxygen levels to the list of vital signs measured with new technology developed by engineers at UC Berkeley. "There...
Germanium comes home to Purdue for semiconductor milestone
Dec 11, 2014 (SPX)
A laboratory at Purdue University provided a critical part of the world's first transistor in 1947 - the purified germanium semiconductor - and now researchers ...
High photosensitivity 2-D-few-layered molybdenum diselenide phototransistors
Dec 09, 2014 (SPX)
Two-dimensional (2D) layered materials are now attracting a lot of interest due to their unique optoelectronic properties at atomic thicknesses. Among them, gra...
Unusual electronic state found in new class of unconventional superconductors
Dec 09, 2014 (SPX)
A team of scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, Columbia Engineering, Columbia Physics and Kyoto University has ...
Computers that teach by example
Dec 09, 2014 (SPX)
Computers are good at identifying patterns in huge data sets. Humans, by contrast, are good at inferring patterns from just a few examples. In a paper appearing...
US tech firm Intel plans $1.6 bn investment in China
Dec 04, 2014 (AFP)
US microprocessor maker Intel plans to invest $1.6 billion over the next 15 years to upgrade an existing facility in China's western city of Chengdu, the compan...
Characteristics of a universal simulator
Dec 03, 2014 (SPX)
"A quantum computer may be thought of as a 'simulator of overall Nature," explains Fabio Franchini, a researcher at the International School for Advanced Studie...
Scientists film magnetic memory in super slo-mo
Dec 03, 2014 (SPX)
Researchers at DESY have used high-speed photography to film one of the candidates for the magnetic data storage devices of the future in action. The film was t...
Possible read head for quantum computers
Dec 02, 2014 (SPX)
Nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamonds could be used to construct vital components for quantum computers. But hitherto it has been impossible to read optically wr...
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