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Quantum computer coding in silicon now possible
Nov 23, 2015 (SPX)
A team of Australian engineers has proven - with the highest score ever obtained - that a quantum version of computer code can be written, and manipulated, usin...
Photons on a chip set new paths for secure communications
Nov 23, 2015 (SPX)
Researchers from RMIT University in Melbourne have helped crack the code to ultra-secure telecommunications of the future in an international research project t...
Electrons always find a quantum way
Nov 23, 2015 (SPX)
Scientists from the University of Basel in Switzerland have demonstrated for the first time how electrons are transported from a superconductor through a quantu...
Researchers implant organic electronics inside plants
Nov 20, 2015 (UPI)
Researchers at Linkoping University in Sweden have found a way to install organic electric circuits inside plants, combining a plant's natural signaling network...
New class of materials for organic electronics
Nov 20, 2015 (SPX)
Polymeric carbon nitrides are organic compounds synthesised to form a yellow powder of a myriad of nanocrystals. The crystalline structure resembles that of gra...
Miniaturizable magnetic resonance
Nov 16, 2015 (SPX)
A garnet crystal only one micrometre in diameter was instrumental in a University of Alberta team of physicists creating a route to "lab-on-a-chip" technology f...
Scientists design a full-scale architecture for a quantum computer in silicon
Nov 12, 2015 (SPX)
Australian scientists have designed a 3D silicon chip architecture based on single atom quantum bits, which is compatible with atomic-scale fabrication techniqu...
Engineers reveal record-setting flexible phototransistor
Nov 12, 2015 (SPX)
Inspired by mammals' eyes, University of Wisconsin-Madison electrical engineers have created the fastest, most responsive flexible silicon phototransistor ever ...
Electrochemical etching down to one-monolayer towards high-Tc superconductivity
Nov 12, 2015 (SPX)
Iron selenide (FeSe) is an attracting superconducting material since the superconducting transition temperature (Tc) is enhanced from 8 K in bulk form toward 65...
A new slant on semiconductor characterization
Nov 10, 2015 (SPX)
From laptops and televisions to smartphones and tablets, semiconductors have made advanced electronics possible. These types of devices are so pervasive, in fac...
The world's fastest nanoscale photonics switch
Nov 09, 2015 (SPX)
International team of researchers from Lomonosov Moscow State University and the Australian National University in Canberra created an ultrafast all-optical swi...
Upgrading the quantum computer
Nov 09, 2015 (SPX)
Within the last several years, considerable progress has been made in developing a quantum computer, which holds the promise of solving problems a lot more effi...
China state-owned firm to build $15 bn chip plant
Nov 06, 2015 (AFP)
A state-owned Chinese company said Friday it plans to pour nearly $15 billion into a giant memory chip factory, as Beijing seeks to create homegrown semiconduct...
Mimicing quantum entanglement with laser to double data speeds
Nov 06, 2015 (SPX)
In a classic eureka moment, a team of physicists led by The City College of New York and including Herriot-Watt University and Corning Incorporated is showing h...
Silicon Valley granddaddy HP readies breakup
Nov 01, 2015 (AFP)
Seventy-seven years after Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard began tinkering in a Palo Alto garage, the company that became the foundation for Silicon Valley is brea...
Photons open the gateway for quantum networks
Oct 28, 2015 (SPX)
There is tremendous potential for new information technology based on light (photons). Photons (light particles) are very well suited for carrying information a...
Manipulating wrinkles could lead to graphene semiconductors
Oct 28, 2015 (SPX)
Graphene has generally been described as a two-dimensional structure - a single sheet of carbon atoms arranged in a regular structure - but the reality is not s...
Techniques to cool 3D integrated circuits stacked like a skyscraper
Oct 28, 2015 (SPX)
Future integrated circuitry is expected to look a lot like skyscrapers: units will be stacked atop one another and interconnects will link each level to its adj...
Researchers transform slow emitters into fast light sources
Oct 26, 2015 (SPX)
Researchers from Brown University, in collaboration with colleagues from Harvard, have developed a new way to control light from phosphorescent emitters at very...
Electronics get a power boost with the addition of a simple material
Oct 20, 2015 (SPX)
The tiny transistor is the heart of the electronics revolution, and Penn State materials scientists have just discovered a way to give this workhorse a big boos...
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