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Researchers solve materials mystery key to future electronic devices
Mar 05, 2018 (SPX)
The same is true in the burgeoning field of oxide electronics materials. Boasting a wide array of behaviors, including electronic, magnetic and superconducting,...
Memtransistor brings world closer to brain-like computing
Mar 01, 2018 (SPX)
"Computers have separate processing and memory storage units, whereas the brain uses neurons to perform both functions," said Northwestern University's Mark C. ...
Microchip Technology buys rival for $8.3 bn
Mar 01, 2018 (AFP)
The boards of both firms approved the deal, worth more than $10 billion including Microsemi's cash and assets. The transaction is subject to California-based Mi...
Unconventional superconductor may be used to create quantum computers of the future
Mar 01, 2018 (SPX)
Researchers throughout the world are struggling to build a quantum computer. One of the great challenges is to overcome the sensitivity of quantum systems to de...
New technology standard could shape the future of electronics design
Feb 28, 2018 (SPX)
In a study published in the journal Scientific Reports, researchers show how they have pushed the memristor - a simpler and smaller alternative to the transisto...
Shape-shifting organic crystals use memory to improve plastic electronics
Feb 27, 2018 (SPX)
The findings are published in the journal Nature Communications and confirm the shape-memory phenomenon in two organic semiconductors materials. Devices like th...
New UC Riverside research advances spintronics technology
Feb 27, 2018 (SPX)
Spintronic devices promise to solve major problems in today's electronic computers, in that the computers use massive amounts of electricity and generate heat t...
UA researchers observe electrons zipping around in crystals
Feb 27, 2018 (SPX)
Unlike current silicon-based electronics, which shed most of the energy they consume as waste heat, the future is all about low-power computing. Known as spintr...
Flexing for the next silicon wave
Feb 27, 2018 (SPX)
Crystalline silicon is naturally abundant and highly scalable and has reliable and consistent photovoltaic properties that are appealing for the development of ...
Antiferromagnets prove their potential for spin-based information technology
Feb 27, 2018 (SPX)
In principle, antiferromagnets enable much faster information-writing and are very stable with respect to disturbing external fields. These advantages, however,...
X-ray experiments suggest high tunability of 2-D material
Feb 26, 2018 (SPX)
Enter MAESTRO, a next-generation platform for X-ray experiments at the Advanced Light Source (ALS) at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Labo...
New controls scale quantum chips
Feb 26, 2018 (SPX)
Matt Reagor, lead author of the paper, says: "We've developed a technique that enables us to reduce interference between qubits as we add more and more qubits t...
Qualcomm open to further takeover talks if Broadcom boosts price
Feb 26, 2018 (AFP)
The California-based mobile chip giant released a letter to Broadcom saying that a meeting earlier this month had addressed some of Qualcomm's concerns but that...
Major discovery in controlling quantum states of single atoms
Feb 20, 2018 (SPX)
Using a Scanning Tunneling Microscope, which utilizes an atomically sharp metal tip, they were able to precisely image individual iron atoms and measure and con...
Fingerprints of quantum entanglement
Feb 16, 2018 (SPX)
As with all quantum technologies, quantum computing is based on a peculiar feature of quantum mechanics, quantum entanglement. The basic units of quantum inform...
First 3-D imaging of excited quantum dots
Feb 15, 2018 (SPX)
Researchers are still studying how to precisely control the growth of these nanoscale particles and their underlying quantum behavior. For instance, defects for...
Quantum 'hack' to unleash computing power
Feb 15, 2018 (SPX)
As scientists at IBM, Google, Microsoft and universities across the world seek to scale-up quantum technology to make a practical quantum computer, finding ways...
Silicon qubits plus light add up to new quantum computing capability
Feb 15, 2018 (SPX)
The research, published in the journal Nature, was led by researchers at Princeton University in collaboration with colleagues at the University of Konstanz in ...
Mass production of new class of semiconductors closer to reality
Feb 15, 2018 (SPX)
The chemists have found a way to simultaneously control the orientation and select the size of single-walled carbon nanotubes deposited on a surface. That means...
Quantum race accelerates development of silicon quantum chip
Feb 05, 2018 (SPX)
In a neck-and-neck race with their competitors, they showed that quantum information of an electron spin can be transported to a photon, in a silicon quantum ch...
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