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Moore's Law Gets Boost With Fundamental Chemistry Finding
Jul 16, 2014 (SPX)
Over the years, computer chips have gotten smaller thanks to advances in materials science and manufacturing technologies. This march of progress, the doubling ...
The World's First Photonic Router
Jul 15, 2014 (SPX)
Weizmann Institute scientists have demonstrated for the first time a photonic router - a quantum device based on a single atom that enables routing of single ph...
Rice's silicon oxide memories catch manufacturers' eye
Jul 11, 2014 (SPX)
Rice University's breakthrough silicon oxide technology for high-density, next-generation computer memory is one step closer to mass production, thanks to a ref...
IBM to spend $3 bn aiming for computer chip breakthrough
Jul 10, 2014 (AFP)
IBM announced plans Wednesday to pump $3 billion into an overhaul of computer chip technology to better meet modern demands of "Big Data" and computing pushed t...
The new atomic age: building smaller, greener electronics
Jul 09, 2014 (SPX)
In the drive to get small, Robert Wolkow and his lab at the University of Alberta are taking giant steps forward. The digital age has resulted in a succession o...
Toward a new way to keep electronics from overheating
Jul 09, 2014 (SPX)
Computer technology has transformed the way we live, but as consumers expect ever more from their devices at faster speeds, personal computers as well as larger...
Stanford engineers envision an electronic switch just 3 atoms thick
Jul 09, 2014 (SPX)
Do not fold, spindle or mutilate. Those instructions were once printed on punch cards that fed data to mainframe computers. Today's smart phones process more da...
Researchers observe tunable quantum behavior in bilayer graphene
Jul 09, 2014 (SPX)
Columbia researchers have observed the fractional quantum Hall effect in bilayer graphene and shown that this exotic state of matter can be tuned by an electric...
From Pencil Marks To Quantum Computers
Jul 09, 2014 (SPX)
Pick up a pencil. Make a mark on a piece of paper. Congratulations: you are doing cutting-edge condensed matter physics. You might even be making the first mark...
Superconducting-silicon qubits
Jul 08, 2014 (SPX)
Theorists propose a way to make superconducting quantum devices such as Josephson junctions and qubits, atom-by-atom, inside a silicon crystal. Such systems cou...
Negar Sani solved the mystery of the printed diode
Jul 08, 2014 (SPX)
With an article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in the United States of America (PNAS), a thirteen-year-long mystery that has i...
Ultra-thin wires for quantum computing
Jun 24, 2014 (SPX)
Take a fine strand of silica fiber, attach it at each end to a slow-turning motor, gently torture it over an unflickering flame until it just about reaches its ...
Move Over, Silicon, There's a New Circuit in Town
Jun 24, 2014 (SPX)
When it comes to electronics, silicon will now have to share the spotlight. In a paper recently published in Nature Communications, researchers from the USC Vit...
Swell new sensors
Jun 23, 2014 (SPX)
Using microscopic polymer light resonators that expand in the presence of specific gases, researchers at MIT's Quantum Photonics Laboratory have developed new o...
A faster path to optical circuits
Jun 17, 2014 (SPX)
Just as electronic circuits work with electrical charges, optical circuits process pulses of light, which gives them a distinct advantage in terms of speed. Opt...
Researchers find weird magic ingredient for quantum computing
Jun 16, 2014 (SPX)
A form of quantum weirdness is a key ingredient for building quantum computers according to new research from a team at the University of Waterloo's Institute f...
Chemical Sensor on a Chip
Jun 16, 2014 (SPX)
They are invisible, but perfectly suited for analysing liquids and gases; infrared laser beams are absorbed differently by different molecules. This effect can ...
Quantum computation: Fragile yet error-free
Jun 16, 2014 (SPX)
Even computers are error-prone. The slightest disturbances may alter saved information and falsify the results of calculations. To overcome these problems, comp...
Contextuality puts the 'magic' in quantum computing
Jun 16, 2014 (SPX)
A new theoretical advance explains where the power of quantum computation comes from, and will help researchers design and build better computers and algorithms...
2D Transistors Promise a Faster Electronics Future
Jun 10, 2014 (SPX)
Faster electronic device architectures are in the offing with the unveiling of the world's first fully two-dimensional field-effect transistor (FET) by research...
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