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New chip architecture may provide foundation for quantum computer
May 13, 2015 (SPX)
Quantum computers are in theory capable of simulating the interactions of molecules at a level of detail far beyond the capabilities of even the largest superco...
Electrons corralled using new quantum tool
May 08, 2015 (SPX)
Researchers have succeeded in creating a new "whispering gallery" effect for electrons in a sheet of graphene - making it possible to precisely control a region...
Defects in atomically thin semiconductor emit single photons
May 05, 2015 (SPX)
Researchers at the University of Rochester have shown that defects on an atomically thin semiconductor can produce light-emitting quantum dots. The quantum dots...
Two-dimensional semiconductor comes clean
May 03, 2015 (SPX)
In 2013 James Hone, Wang Fong-Jen Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Columbia Engineering, and colleagues at Columbia demonstrated that they could dramatica...
Drexel materials scientists putting a new spin on computing memory
Apr 30, 2015 (SPX)
Ever since computers have been small enough to be fixtures on desks and laps, their central processing has functioned something like an atomic Etch A Sketch, wi...
From metal to insulator and back again
Apr 30, 2015 (SPX)
New work from Carnegie's Russell Hemley and Ivan Naumov hones in on the physics underlying the recently discovered fact that some metals stop being metallic und...
Huge reduction of heat conduction observed in flat silicon channels
Apr 27, 2015 (SPX)
The ability of materials to conduct heat is a concept that we are all familiar with from everyday life. The modern story of thermal transport dates back to 1822...
Printing silicon on paper, with lasers
Apr 24, 2015 (SPX)
In seeking to develop the next generation of micro-electronic transistors, researchers have long sought to find the next best thing to replace silicon. To this ...
How to maximize the critical temperature in a molecular superconductor
Apr 23, 2015 (SPX)
An international research team, led by Professor Kosmas Prassides of Tohoku University, has investigated the electronic properties of the family of unconvention...
Researchers develop acoustically driven controls for smartphones
Apr 22, 2015 (SPX)
As people find ever more inventive uses for smartphones, touchscreens sometimes fall short as control surfaces. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and Di...
New understanding of electromagnetism could enable 'antennas on a chip'
Apr 21, 2015 (SPX)
A team of researchers from the University of Cambridge have unravelled one of the mysteries of electromagnetism, which could enable the design of antennas small...
Control of quantum bits in silicon paves way for large quantum computers
Apr 21, 2015 (SPX)
A UNSW-led research team has encoded quantum information in silicon using simple electrical pulses for the first time, bringing the construction of affordable l...
Unraveling the origin of the pseudogap in a charge density wave compound
Apr 21, 2015 (SPX)
The pseudogap, a state characterized by a partial gap and loss of coherence in the electronic excitations, has been associated with many unusual physical phenom...
Graphene looking promising for future spintronic devices
Apr 21, 2015 (SPX)
Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology have discovered that large area graphene is able to preserve electron spin over an extended period, and communi...
NIST tightens the bounds on the quantum information 'speed limit'
Apr 15, 2015 (SPX)
If you're designing a new computer, you want it to solve problems as fast as possible. Just how fast is possible is an open question when it comes to quantum co...
On the road to spin-orbitronics
Apr 15, 2015 (SPX)
Few among us may know what magnetic domains are but we make use of them daily when we email files, post images, or download music or video to our personal devic...
Carbon nanotube computing
Apr 10, 2015 (SPX)
As we approach the miniaturization limits of conventional electronics, alternatives to silicon-based transistors--the building blocks of the multitude of electr...
Computers that mimic the function of the brain
Apr 10, 2015 (SPX)
Researchers are always searching for improved technologies, but the most efficient computer possible already exists. It can learn and adapt without needing to b...
Future electronics based on carbon nanotubes
Apr 10, 2015 (SPX)
The exceptional properties of tiny molecular cylinders known as carbon nanotubes have tantalized researchers for years because of the possibility they could ser...
Researchers observe new charge transport phenomenon
Apr 09, 2015 (SPX)
Researchers of Aalto University in Finland and the German University of Marburg have collaborated in the study of the movement of charges over interfaces of sem...
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