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New optical chip lights up the race for quantum computer

Aug 14, 2015 (SPX)

The microprocessor inside a computer is a single multipurpose chip that has revolutionised people's life, allowing them to use one machine to surf the web, chec...

Discovery may boost memory technology

Aug 14, 2015 (SPX)

Scientists at Rice University have created a solid-state memory technology that allows for high-density storage with a minimum incidence of computer errors. The...

Paving the way for a faster quantum computer

Aug 12, 2015 (SPX)

Since its conception, quantum mechanics has defied our natural way of thinking, and it has forced physicists to come to grips with peculiar ideas. Although they...

Back to the Future: Next-Generation Vacuum Electronics

Aug 12, 2015 (SPX)

Solid-state electronics began to overtake vacuum tubes in radios, computers and other electronic and radio frequency gadgetry more than 60 years ago. Now we liv...

Small tilt in magnets makes them viable memory chips

Aug 04, 2015 (SPX)

University of California, Berkeley, researchers have discovered a new way to switch the polarization of nanomagnets, paving the way for high-density storage to ...

MIPT researchers clear the way for fast plasmonic chips

Aug 04, 2015 (SPX)

Researches from the Laboratory of Nanooptics and Plasmonics at the MIPT Center of Nanoscale Optoelectronics have developed a new method for optical communicatio...

Nature: Compact optical data transmission

Aug 04, 2015 (SPX)

Compact optical transmission possibilities are of great interest in faster and more energy-efficient data exchange between electronic chips. One component servi...

Shaping the hilly landscapes of a semi-conductor nanoworld

Aug 04, 2015 (SPX)

Nanoscale worlds sometimes resemble macroscale roller-coaster style hills, placed at the tip of a series of hexagons. Surprisingly, these nanohills stem from th...

Solid state physics: Quantum matter stuck in unrest

Aug 04, 2015 (SPX)

Using ultracold atoms trapped in light crystals, scientists from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich, the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics...

This could replace your silicon computer chips

Aug 01, 2015 (SPX)

Silicon Valley in Northern California got its nickname from the multitude of computer chip manufacturers that sprung up in the surrounding area in the 1980's. D...

Seeing molecular interactions could give boost to organic electronics

Jul 30, 2015 (SPX)

Organic materials are increasingly being applied in cutting-edge technologies. Organic semiconductors, for example, are being used to develop paper-thin, plasti...

Meet the high-performance single-molecule diode

Jul 30, 2015 (SPX)

A team of researchers from Berkeley Lab and Columbia University has passed a major milestone in molecular electronics with the creation of the world's highest-p...

New type of modulator for the future of data transmission

Jul 29, 2015 (SPX)

In February 1880 in his laboratory in Washington the American inventor Alexander Graham Bell developed a device which he himself called his greatest achievement...

Quantum networks: Back and forth are not equal distances

Jul 29, 2015 (SPX)

Quantum technology based on light (photons) has great potential for radically new information technology based on photonic circuits. Up to now, the photons in q...

New chiral property of silicon, with photonic applications found

Jul 28, 2015 (SPX)

By encoding information in photons via their spin, "photonic" computers could be orders of magnitude faster and efficient than their current-day counterparts. L...

Spintronics: Molecules stabilizing magnetism

Jul 28, 2015 (SPX)

Organic molecules allow producing printable electronics and solar cells with extraordinary properties. In spintronics, too, molecules open up the unexpected pos...

Intel and Micron memory chip tuned to data driven age

Jul 28, 2015 (AFP)

Intel and Micron Technology on Tuesday unveiled what they touted as a new kind of memory chip that could "revolutionize" computing devices, services and applica...

Magnetic material unnecessary to create spin current

Jul 28, 2015 (SPX)

It doesn't happen often that a young scientist makes a significant and unexpected discovery, but postdoctoral researcher Stephen Wu of the U.S. Department of En...

ORNL makes scalable arrays of 'building blocks' for ultrathin electronics

Jul 27, 2015 (SPX)

Semiconductors, metals and insulators must be integrated to make the transistors that are the electronic building blocks of your smartphone, computer and other ...

SK Hynix Q2 profit misses analyst estimates as chip prices fall

Jul 23, 2015 (AFP)

South Korean chipmaker SK Hynix reported a 65 percent on-year increase in second quarter net profit on Thursday, missing analyst estimates, as slowing demand fo...