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Discovery paves way for improved quantum devices
Sep 02, 2021 (SPX)
The University of Queensland team was able to develop treatments and optimise fabrication protocols in common techniques for building superconducting circuits o...
Russian physicists mix classical light with half a photon on a qubit
Sep 01, 2021 (SPX)
"We have formulated a mathematical language for handling the unconventional and intriguing phenomenon of wave mixing of classical light - coherent electromagnet...
LED material shines under strain
Aug 27, 2021 (SPX)
Now, as reported in the journal Science, a team led by researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and UC Berkeley has demonstrated an a...
Promising candidates revealed for next-generation LED-based data communications
Aug 27, 2021 (SPX)
Light-emitting diode (LED)-based communications techniques allow computing devices, including mobile phones, to communicate with one another by using infrared l...
Researchers develop novel analog processor for high performance computing
Aug 27, 2021 (SPX)
In a new study published in the journal Nature Communications Physics, researchers led by Volker Sorger, an associate professor of electrical and computer engin...
A peculiar state of matter in layers of semiconductors
Aug 23, 2021 (SPX)
MBL is a peculiar phase of matter, proposed decades ago, that is unlike solid or liquid. Typically, matter comes to thermal equilibrium with its environment. Th...
UVA research group opens a path toward quantum computing in real-world conditions
Aug 23, 2021 (SPX)
Drug discovery is one example. To understand drug interactions, a pharmaceutical company might want to simulate the interaction of two molecules. The challenge ...
Home-grown semiconductors for faster, smaller electronics
Aug 20, 2021 (SPX)
A UNSW study out this month shows that the resulting high-mobility components are ideal candidates for high-frequency, ultra-small electronic devices, quantum d...
Twilight for silicon? Paper reappraises Moore's law through chip density
Aug 19, 2021 (SPX)
The study published by PLOS One reveals a more nuanced historical wave pattern to the rise of transistor density in the silicon chips that make computers and ot...
Magnetic materials could improve the performance of quantum computing circuits
Aug 17, 2021 (SPX)
Under a new award from the U.S. Department of Energy, a team of researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Argonne National Laboratory will ...
Google to build its own chip for new Pixel smartphone
Aug 02, 2021 (AFP)
Pixel 6 models set for release later this year, with superfast 5G wireles capability, will debut Google's own Tensor chip crafted along the lines of processors ...
The chips are down: why there's a semiconductor shortage
Aug 01, 2021 (AFP)
The dearth of chips has exposed the modern world's reliance on these miniscule components, the basic building blocks of computers which allow electronic devices...
Concepts for the development of German quantum computers
Jul 14, 2021 (SPX)
In their concepts, companies, start-ups and research institutions set out the future challenges that they foresee in the field of quantum computing. DLR had ask...
Ultrathin semiconductors electrically connected to superconductors for the first time
Jul 12, 2021 (SPX)
Whether in smartphones, televisions or building technology, semiconductors play a central role in electronics and therefore in our everyday lives. In contrast t...
UK PM reveals govt will review Chinese purchase of semiconductor firm
Jul 07, 2021 (AFP)
Netherlands-based Nexperia, which is owned by China's smartphone giant Wingtech, completed the purchase of Wales-based Newport Wafer Fab for an undisclosed amou...
Broadcom settles US antitrust case on chip market
Jul 02, 2021 (AFP)
Broadcom pressured AT&T, Charter, and Comcast and other service providers into agreements that precluded them from buying chips from its competitors, according ...
Synthetic biology circuits can respond within seconds
Jul 02, 2021 (SPX)
However, there is often a long lag time between an event such as detecting a molecule and the resulting output, because of the time required for cells to transc...
Alpha Data delivers new FPGA-based solution for High Altitude environments
Jun 25, 2021 (SPX)
The ADM-VPX3-9Z5 delivers high-performance in demanding environments and is especially designed to accelerate digital signal processing - making it particularly...
Physicists uncover secrets of world's thinnest superconductor
Jun 22, 2021 (SPX)
The work, led by an MIT professor and a physicist at Brookhaven National Laboratory, was possible thanks to new instrumentation available at only a few faciliti...
Clearing the way toward robust quantum computing
Jun 22, 2021 (SPX)
"Despite tremendous progress toward being able to perform computations with low error rates with superconducting quantum bits (qubits), errors in two-qubit gate...
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