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Bringing advanced microelectronics to revolutionary defense applications
Dec 12, 2018 (SPX)
Today's critical Department of Defense (DOD) systems and platforms rely on advanced electronics to address national security objectives. To help tackle obstacle...
ETRI exchanged quantum information on daylight in a free-space quantum key distribution
Dec 11, 2018 (SPX)
By using the quantum mechanical properties of the single-photon, quantum cryptography guarantees secure information exchange between the distant parties. The re...
Researchers develop method to transfer entire 2D circuits to any smooth surface
Dec 07, 2018 (SPX)
Rice engineers led by materials scientists Pulickel Ajayan and Jun Lou have developed a method to make atom-flat sensors that seamlessly integrate with devices ...
Researchers demonstrate new building block in quantum computing
Dec 06, 2018 (SPX)
Joseph Lukens, Brian Williams, Nicholas Peters, and Pavel Lougovski, research scientists with ORNL's Quantum Information Science Group, performed distinct, inde...
Reflecting antiferromagnetic arrangements
Dec 06, 2018 (SPX)
Described in a paper published on Nov. 27 in Nature Communications, the technique addresses a primary limitation in the emerging research field of "spintronics,...
Colloidal quantum dots make LEDs shine bright in the infrared
Dec 04, 2018 (SPX)
The ICFO team has reported a solution processed nanocomposite system comprising infrared colloidal quantum dots that also meets these criteria and at the same t...
USC scientists find a way to enhance the performance of quantum computers
Dec 04, 2018 (SPX)
The method addresses a weakness that bedevils performance of the next-generation computers by suppressing erroneous calculations while increasing fidelity of re...
New quantum materials could take computing devices beyond the semiconductor era
Dec 04, 2018 (SPX)
In a paper appearing online Dec. 3 in advance of publication in the journal Nature, the researchers propose a way to turn relatively new types of materials, mul...
A new light on significantly faster computer memory devices
Dec 04, 2018 (SPX)
PCMs are a form of computer random-access memory (RAM) that store data by altering the state of the matter of the "bits", (millions of which make up the device)...
An accelerator on a microchip
Nov 27, 2018 (SPX)
Particle accelerators are usually large and costly, but that will soon change if researchers have their way. The Accelerator on a Chip International Program (AC...
Living electrodes with bacteria and organic electronics
Nov 27, 2018 (SPX)
Researchers at Linkoping University, together with colleagues at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, California, USA, have now developed a me...
Quantum computing at scale: Australian scientists achieve compact, sensitive qubit readout
Nov 27, 2018 (SPX)
The research, conducted within the Simmons group at the Centre of Excellence for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology (CQC2T) with PhD student Prasa...
Inkjet printers can produce cheap micro-waveguides for optical computers
Nov 26, 2018 (SPX)
Today, optical fiber is widely used in communication. Many people know that it can transmit a signal over long distances with minimal losses providing, for exam...
'Magnetic topological insulator' makes its own magnetic field
Nov 26, 2018 (SPX)
"Many different quantum and relativistic properties of moving electrons are known in graphene, and people have been interested, 'Can we see these in magnetic ma...
FEFU physicists have developed concept of new fast non-volatile memory
Nov 26, 2018 (SPX)
Young scientists from the Laboratory for Thin Film Technologies of the School of Natural Sciences of Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU), and South Ural State...
Computational chemistry supports research on new semiconductor technologies
Nov 20, 2018 (SPX)
Often the goal of researchers in the field is to design materials that incorporate properties that can be useful for performing specific functions. Such materia...
Solution for next generation nanochips comes out of thin air
Nov 20, 2018 (SPX)
The device unveiled in material sciences journal Nano Letters, eliminates the use of any semiconductor at all, making it faster and less prone to heating up. Le...
Study opens route to ultra-low-power microchips
Nov 16, 2018 (SPX)
Researchers at MIT and at Brookhaven National Laboratory have demonstrated that they can control the magnetic properties of a thin-film material simply by apply...
When electric fields make spins swirl
Nov 16, 2018 (SPX)
ublished in Nature Materials, this work introduces new compelling advantages that bring skyrmion research a step closer to application. It is envisioned that st...
Bringing photonic signaling to digital microelectronics
Nov 05, 2018 (SPX)
Today, parallel computing architectures have become pervasive across all application domains and system scales - from multicore processing units in consumer dev...
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