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Researchers earn NASA grant to reinvent electronics manufacturing in space

Mar 29, 2022 (SPX)

A team of Auburn multi-disciplinary researchers, however, have a proposed solution. Masoud Mahjouri-Samani, assistant professor in electrical and computer engin...

New world record for qubit storage

Mar 24, 2022 (SPX)

They therefore need 'repeaters', a kind of 'relay', which are partly based on a quantum memory. By managing to store a qubit in a crystal (a "memory") for 20 mi...

Magnet-free chiral nanowires for spintronic devices

Mar 19, 2022 (SPX)

Conversely, chiral inorganic materials such as Tellurium have excellent electrical conductivity, but their potential for enabling the electrical control of spin...

A new brain-computer interface with a flexible backing

Mar 17, 2022 (SPX)

This novel brain-computer interface has thus far been tested in rodents. The details were published online on February 25 in the journal Advanced Functional Mat...

UK chip designer Arm cuts jobs after takeover collapse

Mar 15, 2022 (AFP)

Arm, located in the English university city of Cambridge, said the proposed cuts from a global workforce of more than 6,000 comes after Nvidia last month scrapp...

Electronics giant ASUS says shipments to Russia at 'standstill'

Mar 14, 2022 (AFP)

Russia's invasion of Ukraine has sparked global outrage, with governments piling on sanctions against the Kremlin and its allies, while companies have axed busi...

Physicists show how frequencies can easily be multiplied without special circuitry

Mar 11, 2022 (SPX)

Digital technologies and devices are already responsible for about ten percent of global electricity consumption, and the trend is rising sharply. "It is theref...

Magnetic excitations could provide information transfer without heat loss

Mar 07, 2022 (SPX)

At present the transport and control of electrical charges forms the basis for most electronic components. A major disadvantage of this technology is that the f...

DLR and NASA are jointly developing a software package for quantum computers

Mar 07, 2022 (SPX)

The Quantum Computing research group at DLR has already published a software module that has been used to explore quantum computing approaches for tasks such as...

Using two different elements in hybrid atomic quantum computers

Mar 07, 2022 (SPX)

But to make a quantum computer out of neutral atom qubits, many individual atoms must be trapped in place by many laser beams. So far, these arrays have only be...

NGI uses twist to engineer 2D semiconductors with built-in memory functions

Mar 07, 2022 (SPX)

This characteristic, combined with TMDs' outstanding optical properties, can be used to build multi-functional optoelectronic devices such as transistors and LE...

Surprising semiconductor properties revealed with innovative new method

Mar 02, 2022 (SPX)

Scott Chambers, a materials scientist at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, reported the team's discovery at the Spring 2022 meet...

Toshiba CEO resigns ahead of vote on spin-off plan

Mar 01, 2022 (AFP)

Satoshi Tsunakawa had been chief executive for less than a year at the tech and industrial giant, which has lurched from crisis to crisis in recent years. He wi...

A new platform for customizable quantum devices

Feb 25, 2022 (SPX)

The realization of such forward-looking technologies hinges in large part on the qubit - the fundamental component of quantum systems. A major challenge of qubi...

Perovskites used to make efficient artificial retina

Feb 24, 2022 (SPX)

Mani Teja Vijjapu, an electrical engineering Ph.D. student, Khaled Nabil Salama and coworkers have designed and fabricated an array of photoreceptors that detec...

Are fault-tolerant quantum computers on the horizon?

Feb 24, 2022 (SPX)

As various quantum computing research and development efforts advance globally, however, DARPA wants to rigorously assess any quantum research claims that a use...

A possible paradigm shift within piezoelectricity

Feb 21, 2022 (SPX)

Piezoelectric materials have the particular property that their shape changes when applying an electrical voltage to the material. It also works the other way a...

Piezoelectric thin film and metasurfaces combined to create lens with tunable focus

Feb 18, 2022 (SPX)

"This type of low-power, ultra-compact varifocal lens could be used in a wide range of sensor and imaging technologies where system size, weight and cost are im...

Nanoantennas for light controlled electrically

Feb 18, 2022 (SPX)

Already in the medieval times, nanostructures of noble metals were embedded in glass to create beautiful colours. Although not known at the time, the colours ap...

Chaining atoms together yields quantum storage

Feb 18, 2022 (SPX)

The work, which is described in a paper published on February 16 in the journal Nature, utilizes a quantum bit (or qubit) made from an ion of ytterbium (Yb), a ...