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Special-purpose computer that may someday save us billions
Nov 02, 2016 (SPX)
The processing power of standard computers is likely to reach its maximum in the next 10 to 25 years. Even at this maximum power, traditional computers won't be...
Exploring defects in nanoscale devices for possible quantum computing applications
Nov 01, 2016 (SPX)
Due to the nature of this work, it is hoped that such results will contribute to the field of correlated electronic glassy dynamics in condensed matter physics;...
Flexible optical design method for superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors
Oct 31, 2016 (SPX)
The National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT, President: Dr. Masao Sakauchi) has succeeded in the development of flexible optical d...
T-rays will 'speed up' computer memory by a factor of 1000
Oct 31, 2016 (SPX)
Together with their colleagues from Germany and the Netherlands, scientists at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) have found a way to signifi...
Making silicon-germanium core fibers a reality
Oct 31, 2016 (SPX)
Glass fibres do everything from connecting us to the internet to enabling keyhole surgery by delivering light through medical devices such as endoscopes. But as...
Future information technologies: Magnetic monopoles
Oct 31, 2016 (SPX)
The new materials system consists of regular arrays of superconducting YBaCuO-dots covered with an extremely thin permalloy film. A shortly applied external mag...
A new class of materials could realize quantum computers
Oct 31, 2016 (SPX)
Scientists at EPFL and PSI have discovered a new class of materials that can prove ideal for the implementation of spintronics. Electron spin generally refers t...
Ultra-thin ferroelectric material for next-generation electronics
Oct 27, 2016 (SPX)
'Ferroelectric' materials can switch between different states of electrical polarization in response to an external electric field. This flexibility means they ...
Researchers find weakness in common computer chip
Oct 27, 2016 (SPX)
Researchers from Binghamton University--State University of New York and the University of California, Riverside have found a weakness in the Haswell central pr...
Scientists find technique to improve carbon superlattices for quantum electronic devices
Oct 27, 2016 (SPX)
Researchers at the Nanoscale Transport Physics Laboratory from the School of Physics at the University of the Witwatersrand have found a technique to improve ca...
A complete waste of energy
Oct 27, 2016 (SPX)
According to the National Resource Defense Council, Americans waste up to $19 billion annually in electricity costs due to "vampire appliances," always-on digit...
Unusual quantum liquid on crystal surface could inspire future electronics
Oct 25, 2016 (SPX)
For the first time, an experiment has directly imaged electron orbits in a high-magnetic field, illuminating an unusual collective behavior in electrons and sug...
Engineers reveal fabrication process for revolutionary transparent sensors
Oct 24, 2016 (SPX)
In 2014, when University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers announced in the journal Nature Communications that they had developed transparent sensors for use in im...
New 3-D wiring technique brings scalable quantum computers closer to reality
Oct 24, 2016 (SPX)
Researchers from the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) at the University of Waterloo led the development of a new extensible wiring technique capable of con...
Quantum computers: 10-fold boost in stability achieved
Oct 21, 2016 (SPX)
Australian engineers have created a new quantum bit which remains in a stable superposition for 10 times longer than previously achieved, dramatically expanding...
Sandia, Harvard team create first quantum computer bridge
Oct 18, 2016 (SPX)
By forcefully embedding two silicon atoms in a diamond matrix, Sandia researchers have demonstrated for the first time on a single chip all the components neede...
Infrared brings to light nanoscale molecular arrangement
Oct 18, 2016 (SPX)
Detailing the molecular makeup of materials - from solar cells to organic light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and transistors, and medically important proteins - is no...
Researchers develop DNA-based single-electron electronic devices
Oct 17, 2016 (SPX)
Nature has inspired generations of people, offering a plethora of different materials for innovations. One such material is the molecule of the heritage, or DNA...
Researchers use novel materials to build smallest transistor
Oct 14, 2016 (SPX)
In the quest for faster and more powerful computers and consumer electronics, big advances come in small packages. The high-performance, silicon-based transisto...
Atomic sandwiches could make computers 100X greener
Oct 12, 2016 (SPX)
Researchers have engineered a material that could lead to a new generation of computing devices, packing in more computing power while consuming a fraction of t...
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