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EMCORE Introduces Internal Fiber Delay Line System for the Optiva Platform
May 27, 2014 (SPX)
EMCORE has announced the introduction of the Optiva OTS-ODLS 18, 22 and 40 GHz Internal Fiber Delay Line Systems for delay times up to 40 microseconds. EMCORE's...
NIST chip produces and detects specialized gas for biomedical analysis
May 23, 2014 (SPX)
A chip-scale device that both produces and detects a specialized gas used in biomedical analysis and medical imaging has been built and demonstrated at the Nati...
New analysis eliminates a potential speed bump in quantum computing
May 23, 2014 (SPX)
A quantum particle can search for an item in an unsorted "database" by jumping from one item to another in superposition, and it does so faster than a classical...
Neuromorphic Electronic circuits for Building Autonomous Cognitive Systems
May 21, 2014 (SPX)
Which circuits and chips are suitable for building artificial brains using the least possible amount of power? This is the question that Junior Professor Dr. El...
Magnetic Compass Orientation in Birds Builds Case for Bio-Inspired Sensors
May 16, 2014 (SPX)
Researchers working on DARPA's Quantum Effects in Biological Environments (QuBE) program have shown that the electromagnetic noise that permeates modern urban e...
A Lab in Your Pocket
May 12, 2014 (SPX)
When you get sick, your physician may take a sample of your blood, send it to the lab and wait for results. In the near future, however, doctors may be able to ...
Molecular Foundry Opens the Door to Better Doping of Semiconductor Nanocrystals
May 06, 2014 (SPX)
The icing on the cake for semiconductor nanocrystals that provide a non-damped optoelectronic effect may exist as a layer of tin that segregates near the surfac...
New lab-on-a-chip device overcomes miniaturization problems
May 05, 2014 (SPX)
Australian chemists have invented a new type of tiny lab-on-a-chip device that could have a diverse range of applications, including to detect toxic gases, fabr...
US chip giant Intel to pump $6 bn into Israel: minister
May 01, 2014 (AFP)
US computer chip giant Intel is to invest close to $6 billion in upgrading its Israeli production facilities, Israeli Economy Minister Naftali Bennett said on T...
Stanford bioengineers create circuit board modeled on the human brain
Apr 30, 2014 (SPX)
Stanford bioengineers have developed a new circuit board modeled on the human brain, possibly opening up new frontiers in robotics and computing. For all their ...
Progress made in developing nanoscale electronics
Apr 28, 2014 (SPX)
Scientists are facing a number of barriers as they try to develop circuits that are microscopic in size, including how to reliably control the current that flow...
Superconducting Qubit Array Points the Way to Quantum Computers
Apr 28, 2014 (SPX)
A fully functional quantum computer is one of the holy grails of physics. Unlike conventional computers, the quantum version uses qubits (quantum bits), which m...
Piezotronics and piezo-phototronics leading to unprecedented active electronics and optoelectronics
Apr 28, 2014 (SPX)
New technologies for developing electronics and optoelectronics with tunable/adaptive functionalities and performance are critical to emerging applications in w...
Device turns flat surface into spherical antenna
Apr 22, 2014 (SPX)
By depositing an array of tiny, metallic, U-shaped structures onto a dielectric material, a team of researchers in China has created a new artificial surface th...
Ultra-fast electrical circuits using light-generated tunneling currents
Apr 19, 2014 (SPX)
Assistant Professor Christian A. Nijhuis of the Department of Chemistry at the National University of Singapore's (NUS) Faculty of Science, in collaboration wit...
New 'switch' could power quantum computing
Apr 17, 2014 (SPX)
Using a laser to place individual rubidium atoms near the surface of a lattice of light, scientists at MIT and Harvard University have developed a new method fo...
Researchers bolster development of programmable quantum computers
Apr 17, 2014 (SPX)
University of Chicago researchers and their colleagues at University College London have performed a proof-of-concept experiment that will aid the future develo...
Catching the Invisible Wave
Apr 15, 2014 (SPX)
In a feat that may provide a promising array of applications, from energy efficiency to telecommunications to enhanced imaging, researchers at UC Santa Barbara ...
Scalable CVD process for making 2-D molybdenum diselenide
Apr 10, 2014 (SPX)
Nanoengineering researchers at Rice University and Nanyang Technological University in Singapore have unveiled a potentially scalable method for making one-atom...
Domain walls in nanowires cleverly set in motion
Apr 10, 2014 (SPX)
Researchers at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) have achieved a major breakthrough in the development of methods of information processing in nanomagne...
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