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Spin, spin, spin: researchers enhance electron spin longevity
Aug 03, 2020 (SPX)
They published their results on June 15 in Physical Review B. "We found the new way to use spin degree of freedom as electron spin wave," said Makoto Kohda, pap...
Scientists discover new class of semiconducting entropy-stabilized materials
Aug 03, 2020 (SPX)
Recently, University of Michigan researchers Emmanouil (Manos) Kioupakis and Pierre F. P. Poudeu, both in the Materials Science and Engineering Department, util...
Giant atoms enable quantum processing and communication in one
Jul 30, 2020 (SPX)
Previous to this discovery, small-scale quantum processors have successfully performed tasks at a rate exponentially faster than that of classical computers. Ho...
Share surge propels Taiwan chip giant TSMC into top ten
Jul 28, 2020 (AFP)
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, the world's largest contract microchip maker, produces the processors that provide the computing muscle for everythi...
A new path for electron optics in solid-state systems
Jul 20, 2020 (SPX)
However, so far such effects have been demonstrated mainly in one-dimensional devices, for example in nanotubes, or under specific conditions in two-dimensional...
Dutch chip tech maker ASML resists virus to post growth
Jul 15, 2020 (AFP)
ASML is world's leading provider of systems used by the semiconductor industry to manufacture the chips that go in products from computers to cars, and its perf...
Scaling up the quantum chip
Jul 13, 2020 (SPX)
The accomplishment "marks a turning point" in the field of scalable quantum processors, says Dirk Englund, an associate professor in MIT's Department of Electri...
Testing for success with OmegA
Jul 13, 2020 (SPX)
In January, Kirk Bingeman, OmegA electrical senior advisor, shivered in the freezing temperature as he carried boxes and pulled carts full of electronic compone...
Observation of the quantum spin liquid state in novel material
Jul 13, 2020 (SPX)
But the design of devices that can operate using spin is extremely challenging and requires the use of new materials in exotic states - even some that scientist...
Magnetic memory states go exponential
Jul 13, 2020 (SPX)
Spintronics devices commonly consist of magnetic elements manipulated by spin-polarized currents between stable magnetic states. When spintronic devices are use...
Thermophones offer new route to radically simplify array design, research shows
Jul 03, 2020 (SPX)
The team of researchers from the Centre for Metamaterial Research and Innovation at the University of Exeter used devices, known as thermophones, to create a fu...
New research advances Army's quest for quantum networking
Jun 26, 2020 (SPX)
Quantum networks will potentially deliver multiple novel capabilities not achievable with classical networks, one of which is secure quantum communication. In q...
Laser allows solid-state refrigeration of a semiconductor material
Jun 24, 2020 (SPX)
In 2015, University of Washington researchers announced that they can use a laser to cool water and other liquids below room temperature. Now that same team has...
New design for 'optical ruler' could revolutionize clocks, telescopes, telecommunications
Jun 23, 2020 (SPX)
Small enough to fit on a chip, miniature versions of these combs - so named because their set of uniformly spaced frequencies resembles the teeth of a comb - ar...
Compact Optical Frequency Combs Provide Extraordinary Precision with the Turn of a Key
Jun 21, 2020 (SPX)
While they provide unprecedented performance, the use of optical frequency synthesizers has largely been limited to laboratory settings due to the cost, size, a...
Photonics: From custom-built to ready-made
Jun 18, 2020 (SPX)
Over the last decade, the field of photonics has provided a solution to the chip-to-chip bandwidth problem in the electronic world by increasing the link distan...
Sound waves transport droplets for rewritable lab-on-a-chip devices
Jun 15, 2020 (SPX)
The results appear online on June 10 in the journal Science Advances. "Our new system achieves rewritable routing, sorting and gating of droplets with minimal e...
New supercapacitor opens door to better wearable electronics
Jun 15, 2020 (SPX)
Supercapacitors, with their high power density, fast charge-discharge rates, long cycle life, and cost-effectiveness, are a promising power source for everythin...
Engineers put tens of thousands of artificial brain synapses on a single chip
Jun 09, 2020 (SPX)
The researchers borrowed from principles of metallurgy to fabricate each memristor from alloys of silver and copper, along with silicon. When they ran the chip ...
Silicon 'neurons' may add a new dimension to computer processors
Jun 08, 2020 (SPX)
What does a neuron do to save energy that a contemporary computer processing unit doesn't? Computer modelling by researchers at Washington University in St. Lou...
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