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Will your future computer be made using bacteria
Jul 13, 2019 (SPX)
Graphene - a flake of carbon as thin as a single later of atoms - is a revolutionary nanomaterial due to its ability to easily conduct electricity, as well as i...
On the way to printable organic light emitting diodes
Jul 11, 2019 (SPX)
Scientists at the MPI-P led by group leader Dr. Gert-Jan Wetzelaer (Department of Prof. Paul Blom) have now developed a new OLED concept. Nowadays, OLEDs consis...
'Tsunami' on a silicon chip: a world first for light waves
Jul 08, 2019 (SPX)
In communications science, retaining information in an optic fibre that spans continents is vital. Ideally, this requires the manipulation of light in silicon c...
Atomic 'patchwork' using heteroepitaxy for next generation semiconductor devices
Jul 01, 2019 (SPX)
Examples include 20nm strips surrounded by different TMDCs with atomically straight interfaces, and layered structures. They also directly probed the electronic...
Mysterious Majorana quasiparticle is now closer to being controlled for quantum computing
Jun 17, 2019 (SPX)
Its fame stems from its strange properties - it is the only particle that is its own antiparticle - and from its potential to be harnessed for future quantum co...
Hong Kong's extradition law jolts business community
Jun 14, 2019 (AFP)
In a trend that could be damning for the international finance hub, some businesses say they would consider moving if the controversial bill -- which has provok...
Texas A and M researcher makes breakthrough discovery in stretchable electronics materials
Jun 10, 2019 (SPX)
By using the elasticity of polymers such as silicone, these emerging technologies are made to move in ways that mimic skin. This sheds light on why Smooth-On Ec...
Quantum information gets a boost from thin-film breakthrough
Jun 10, 2019 (SPX)
"Efficiently controlling certain thin-film materials so they emit single photons at precise locations - what's known as deterministic quantum emission - paves t...
NIST physicists 'teleport' logic operation between separated ions
Jun 10, 2019 (SPX)
Quantum teleportation transfers data from one quantum system (such as an ion) to another (such as a second ion), even if the two are completely isolated from ea...
Laser technique could unlock use of tough material for next-generation electronics
Jun 10, 2019 (SPX)
This means that the material, graphene, could bring faster electronics than is possible today with silicon. But to truly be useful, graphene would need to carry...
Beyond 1 and 0: Engineers boost potential for creating successor to shrinking transistors
Jun 10, 2019 (SPX)
Scientists' pursuit of the smallest possible transistor has allowed more of them to be packed onto each chip. But that race to the bottom is almost over: Resear...
Quantum world-first: researchers reveal accuracy of two-qubit calculations in silicon
May 23, 2019 (SPX)
The research, carried out by Professor Andrew Dzurak's team in UNSW Engineering, was published in the world-renowned journal Nature. The experiments were perfor...
Generating high-quality single photons for quantum computing
May 23, 2019 (SPX)
Quantum emitters generate photons that can be detected one at a time. Consumer quantum computers and devices could potentially leverage certain properties of th...
Energy-free superfast computing invented by scientists using light pulses
May 23, 2019 (SPX)
The invention uses magnets to record computer data which consume virtually zero energy, solving the dilemma of how to create faster data processing speeds witho...
Mobile chip titan Qualcomm faces setback with US antitrust ruling
May 22, 2019 (AFP)
Qualcomm shares sank some 10.8 percent Wednesday to close at a one-month low after the ruling that the company violated antitrust law, in a case with major impl...
A step towards probabilistic computing
May 15, 2019 (SPX)
In the search for new computer concepts that are closer to the human brain, research is concentrating, amongst others, on probability-based computing. Together ...
Computing faster with quasi-particles
May 13, 2019 (SPX)
Majorana fermions are electrically neutral and also their own anti-particles. These exotic particles can, for example, emerge as quasi-particles in topological ...
Substrate defects key to growth of 2D materials
May 10, 2019 (SPX)
The field of 2D materials with unusual properties has exploded in the 15 years since Konstantin Novoselov and Andre Geim pulled a single atomic layer of carbon ...
Move over, silicon switches: There's a new way to compute
May 09, 2019 (SPX)
One method of controlling magnetism uses electrical current that transports spin to write information, but this usually involves flowing charge. Because this ge...
Researchers take a step towards light-based, brain-like computing chip
May 09, 2019 (SPX)
One of the reasons for this is that a computer traditionally has separate memory and processor units - the consequence of which is that all data have to be sent...
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