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New cellulose-based material gives three sensors in one

Mar 27, 2019 (SPX)

The ability to measure pressure, temperature and humidity is important in many applications, such as monitoring patients at home, robotics, electronic skin, fun...

Air Force Research Lab poised to change the face of high-power electronics

Mar 27, 2019 (SPX)

The Oxide Molecular Beam Epitaxy laboratory is poised to become a major developer of high-quality semiconductor materials that are the basis for a new breed of ...

Matter waves and quantum splinters

Mar 27, 2019 (SPX)

"It's remarkable that the same quantum system can give rise to such different phenomena," said Rice University physicist Randy Hulet, co-author of a study about...

Extremely accurate measurements of atom states for quantum computing

Mar 27, 2019 (SPX)

"We are working to develop a quantum computer that uses a three-dimensional array of laser-cooled and trapped cesium atoms as qubits," said David Weiss, profess...

Designing chips for real time machine learning

Mar 25, 2019 (SPX)

As the field of artificial intelligence looks towards advancing beyond today's ML capabilities, pushing into the realms of "learning" in real-time, new levels o...

Researchers measure near-perfect performance in low-cost semiconductors

Mar 21, 2019 (SPX)

"Traditional semiconductors are single crystals, grown in vacuum under special conditions. These we can make in large numbers, in flask, in a lab and we've show...

Computer scientists create reprogrammable molecular computing system

Mar 21, 2019 (SPX)

In a paper published in Nature on March 21, a team headed by Caltech's Erik Winfree (PhD '98), professor of computer science, computation and neural systems, an...

Princeton scientists discover chiral crystals exhibiting exotic quantum effects

Mar 21, 2019 (SPX)

An international team of researchers has discovered that certain classes of crystals with an asymmetry like biological "handedness," known as chiral crystals, m...

Computer program developed to find 'leakage' in quantum computers

Mar 20, 2019 (SPX)

Researchers from the University of Warwick's Department of Physics have developed a quantum computer program to detect the presence of 'leakage', where informat...

Long-distance quantum information exchange achieves success at the nanoscale

Mar 19, 2019 (SPX)

The distance between the dots has now become big enough for integration with traditional microelectronics and perhaps, a future quantum computer. The result is ...

Researchers discover new material to help power electronics

Mar 19, 2019 (SPX)

"We have essentially found a dual-personality material," said Joseph Heremans, co-author of the study, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and Ohi...

Semimetals are high conductors

Mar 19, 2019 (SPX)

New materials that conduct electricity are of great interest to physicists and materials scientists, both for basic research and because they could lead to new ...

Quantum sensing method measures minuscule magnetic fields

Mar 15, 2019 (SPX)

The new approach is described in the journal Physical Review Letters in a paper by graduate student Yi-Xiang Liu, former graduate student Ashok Ajoy, and profes...

Nanocrystal 'factory' could revolutionize quantum dot manufacturing

Mar 15, 2019 (SPX)

Over the last two decades, colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals, known as quantum dots (QDs), have emerged as novel materials for applications ranging from biol...

Looking back and forward: A decade-long quest for a transformative transistor

Mar 15, 2019 (SPX)

Transistors have been miniaturized for the past 50 years based on Moore's law, an observation that the number of transistors on a chip can double roughly every ...

Quantum physicists succeed in controlling energy losses and shifts

Mar 15, 2019 (SPX)

Dr Mikko Mottonen from Aalto University and his research team have taken a different point of view. 'Years ago we realized that quantum computers actually need ...

Sydney united to build a quantum harbor city

Mar 14, 2019 (SPX)

The two groups, led by Professor David Reilly at the University of Sydney and Professor Andrew Dzurak at UNSW, have demonstrated that the state, or value, of a ...

Two dimensional 'Lego' shows new methods for creating electronics

Mar 11, 2019 (SPX)

This happens without the two atomic layers physically meeting, nor through a chemical reaction, but by attaching the layers to each other via a weak so called v...

Nvidia buys Israeli chipmaker Mellanox for $6.9 bn

Mar 11, 2019 (AFP)

The combined firm will have the capacity to "optimize data center" performance for applications in cloud computing and artificial intelligence, according to a s...

When semiconductors stick together, materials go quantum

Mar 11, 2019 (SPX)

The study describing the method, which stacks together 2D layers of tungsten disulfide and tungsten diselenide to create an intricately patterned material, or s...