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Secure information transmission over 500m fiber links based on quantum technologies
Dec 11, 2017 (SPX)
In these schemes, the quantum function is limited to realize secret key generation and transmission, while the information transmission still depends on classic...
Squeezing light into a tiny channel brings optical computing a step closer
Dec 08, 2017 (SPX)
Light is desirable for use in computing because it can carry a higher density of information and is much faster and more efficient than conventional electronics...
The quantum waltz of electrons hints at the next generation of chips
Dec 08, 2017 (SPX)
Researchers working in the Laboratory of Nanoscale Electronics and Structures (LANES), which is run by Professor Andras Kis, were able to quantify these quantum...
Qualcomm CEO sees 'no path to value' in Broadcom tie-up
Dec 07, 2017 (AFP)
The comments came days after Singapore-based Broadcom escalated its efforts on a $130 billion bid by proposing a slate of directors to unseat the Qualcomm board...
NUS researchers achieve significant breakthrough in topological insulator based devices
Dec 07, 2017 (SPX)
As such, researchers around the world are actively searching for novel ways to reduce the present high switching current density in order to achieve highly effi...
Discovery points the way to better and cheaper transparent conductors
Dec 05, 2017 (SPX)
Coatings are applied to the glass of these items to make them electrically conductive whilst also allowing light through. Fluorine doped tin dioxide is one of t...
A step forward for quantum computing
Dec 01, 2017 (SPX)
But for a team of physicists from Harvard-MIT Center for Ultracold Atoms and California Institute of Technology things are actually much tougher. Working in a H...
Quantum simulators wield control over more than 50 qubits, setting new record
Nov 30, 2017 (SPX)
As the basis for its quantum simulation, the UMD-NIST team deploys up to 53 individual ytterbium ions--charged atoms trapped in place by gold-coated and razor-s...
Microwave-based test method can help keep 3-D chip designers' eyes open
Nov 30, 2017 (SPX)
The approach overcomes the limitation of conventional chip-testing methods on the so-called 3-D chips, which include many thin horizontal "floors" connected to ...
Quantum systems correct themselves
Nov 29, 2017 (SPX)
In their new proposal, the authors use dissipation (i.e. the interaction of a quantum system with its environment) to correct quantum states. Dissipation is typ...
Argonne to install Comanche system to explore ARM technology for HPC
Nov 27, 2017 (SPX)
ARM is a RISC-based processor architecture that has dominated the mobile computing space for years. That dominance is due to how tightly ARM CPUs can be integra...
Strain-free epitaxy of germanium film on mica
Nov 27, 2017 (SPX)
Germanium (Ge) is generally grown on expensive single-crystal substrates, adding another challenge to making it sustainably viable for most applications. To add...
Scientists create a prototype neural network based on memristors
Nov 22, 2017 (SPX)
This project is one if the first attempts to combine living biological culture with a bio-like neural network based on memristors. Memristor neural networks wil...
Three-dimensional nanomagnets for the computer of tomorrow
Nov 22, 2017 (SPX)
The information revolution that has shaped society into what it is today has been based on traditional printing of ever-shrinking electronic components. With cu...
Transfer technique produces wearable gallium nitride gas sensors
Nov 16, 2017 (SPX)
Transferring the gallium nitride sensors to metallic foils and flexible polymers doubles their sensitivity to nitrogen dioxide gas, and boosts response time by ...
Essential quantum computer component downsized by 2 orders
Nov 15, 2017 (SPX)
At the same time, these qubits are extremely sensitive to interference from their environment, and need to be shielded from unwanted signals, in particular from...
Physicists mix waves on superconducting qubits
Nov 15, 2017 (SPX)
Researchers from MIPT's Laboratory of Artificial Quantum Systems led by Professor Oleg Astafiev teamed up with their British colleagues to examine a superconduc...
The next generation of power electronics?
Nov 14, 2017 (SPX)
"There is growing demand for semiconducting gallium nitride in the power electronics industry. To make electronic devices that can process the amounts of power ...
New method developed to 3-D print fully functional electronic circuits
Nov 14, 2017 (SPX)
The circuits, which contain electrically-conductive metallic inks and insulating polymeric inks, can now be produced in a single inkjet printing process where a...
Fully integrated circuits printed directly onto fabric
Nov 10, 2017 (SPX)
The researchers, from the University of Cambridge, working with colleagues in Italy and China, have demonstrated how graphene - a two-dimensional form of carbon...
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