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Two technical breakthroughs make high-quality 2D materials possible
Jan 19, 2023 (SPX)
Sang-Hoon Bae, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering and materials science at the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Loui...
MIT engineers grow perfect atom-thin materials on industrial silicon wafers
Jan 19, 2023 (SPX)
Enter 2D materials - delicate, two-dimensional sheets of perfect crystals that are as thin as a single atom. At the scale of nanometers, 2D materials can conduc...
Start ups grow diamond qubits
Jan 13, 2023 (SPX)
Over the next three and a half years, Advanced Quantum from Allmersbach (Baden-Wurttemberg) will develop quality assurance procedures to accompany the creation ...
More stable states of quantum computers
Jan 13, 2023 (SPX)
A very promising option are superconducting circuits. Superconductors are materials that have no electrical resistance at extremely low temperatures and, hence,...
New spin control method brings billion-qubit quantum chips closer
Jan 13, 2023 (SPX)
The serendipitous discovery, made by engineers at the quantum computing start-up Diraq and UNSW Sydney, is detailed in the journal Nature Nanotechnology. "This ...
Graphene nano-mechanical-switches could make our electronics even smaller and ultra-low-power
Jan 11, 2023 (SPX)
The suspended element of the NEMS switch is electro-mechanically moved by the applied electric field to establish physical contact with the counterpart of the s...
Raytheon wins award for gallium nitride technology maturation
Jan 09, 2023 (SPX)
Raytheon Missiles and Defense's GaN process improvements have been awarded with a 2022 Defense Manufacturing Technology Achievement award. This award is selecte...
New quantum computing architecture could be used to connect large-scale devices
Jan 06, 2023 (SPX)
However, realizing this promise requires resilient and extensible hardware. One challenge in building a large-scale quantum computer is that researchers must fi...
DARPA Kicks Off JUMP 2.0 Consortium Aimed at Microelectronics Revolution
Jan 05, 2023 (SPX)
The consortium created under JUMP 2.0 will pursue high-risk, high-payoff research spanning seven thematically structured centers. Each multidisciplinary center ...
Electronic bridge allows rapid energy sharing between semiconductors
Jan 05, 2023 (SPX)
Now, researchers have discovered that electrons play a surprising role in how energy is transferred between layers of 2D semiconductor materials tungsten disele...
Into the blue: Progress in perovskite LEDs for deep-blue light
Jan 05, 2023 (SPX)
2D-RPPs have excellent optoelectronic properties - ideal for LEDs. Although 2D-RPP-based LEDs have rapidly progressed in terms of performance, it is still chall...
Self-powered, printable smart sensors could mean cheaper, greener Internet of Things
Jan 04, 2023 (SPX)
Leading a multinational team of top experts in various areas of printable electronics, Pecunia has identified key priorities and promising avenues for printable...
Spain busts criminals smuggling e-waste to Africa
Jan 03, 2023 (AFP)
Police arrested 43 people suspected of having illegally shipped 331 containers of used electronics to Africa over the past two years, the finance ministry said ...
Dawn of solid-state quantum networks
Jan 01, 2023 (SPX)
A large-scale and fully functional quantum network is the holy grail of quantum information sciences. It will open a new frontier of physics, with new possibili...
Taiwan's TSMC begins mass production of 3nm chips
Dec 29, 2022 (AFP)
The Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company operates the world's largest silicon wafer factories and produces high-performance chips used in everything from ...
Putting a new spin on computer hardware
Dec 22, 2022 (SPX)
Curiosity has been a driving force throughout his life, and it led him to MIT, where Liu is a newly tenured associate professor in the Department of Electrical ...
Nanoantennas directing a bright future
Dec 22, 2022 (SPX)
As a next-generation optical control technology, a photonic crystal or nanoantenna is a two-dimensional structure in which nano-sized particles are arranged per...
Space-frequency-polarization-division multiplexing of information metasurface makes wireless communications more powerful
Dec 18, 2022 (SPX)
In recent years, the proposal and development of time-domain coding metasurface (TDCM) and space-time-coding metasurface (STCM) have further enriched the electr...
US places Chinese chipmakers on trade blacklist
Dec 15, 2022 (AFP)
The move, which included semiconductor makers Cambricon and Yangtze Memory Technologies, aimed to limit China's "efforts to obtain and leverage advanced technol...
Confining quarks
Dec 15, 2022 (SPX)
The study of matter can seem a bit like opening a stack of Russian matryoshka dolls, each level down revealing another familiar, yet different, arrangement of c...
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