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Mapping the quantum future with smart TV technology
Feb 15, 2022 (SPX)
Television used to be known as 'the idiot box'. But the organic LEDs found in modern flat screens are far from stupid. In fact, they're helping us to draw a map...
Toshiba sets March date for vote on spin-off plan
Feb 14, 2022 (AFP)
The ballot will not be legally binding but is intended to "confirm the views of our shareholders regarding moving forward", Toshiba said, with a binding resolut...
Quantum tech in space?
Feb 11, 2022 (SPX)
The system is presented in a peer reviewed paper published in Quantum Science and Technology. The paper details how the University's Quantum Systems and Devices...
Contamination disrupts flash chip output at two Japan plants
Feb 10, 2022 (AFP)
It comes as the tech industry grapples with a global semiconductor shortage that has hampered the manufacturing of numerous products from cars to gaming console...
Construction contract awarded for new semiconductor facility at MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Feb 09, 2022 (SPX)
"The CSL-MIF will enable the most advanced microelectronics research and prototyping in critically important national security areas for decades to come. We loo...
Nvidia to scrap $40bn takeover of chip firm Arm: report
Feb 08, 2022 (AFP)
Nvidia and SoftBank Group both declined to comment on the report, which cited three unnamed sources with direct knowledge of the deal. But the collapse would be...
EU joins chips race with 42 bn euro bid to rival Asia
Feb 08, 2022 (AFP)
The production of semiconductors, also known as chips, has become a strategic priority in Europe as well as the United States, after the shock of the pandemic c...
Toshiba unveils new plan to split into two companies
Feb 07, 2022 (AFP)
The group said it plans to spin off its device segment, including its semiconductor business, in a bid to speed up decision-making and boost stock performance. ...
A new method for quantum computing
Feb 02, 2022 (SPX)
The researchers work at QuSoft and the Institute of Physics in the groups of Rene Gerritsma and Arghavan Safavi-Naini. The effort, which was led by the PhD cand...
Tiny materials lead to a big advance in quantum computing
Jan 28, 2022 (SPX)
MIT researchers have now used ultrathin materials to build superconducting qubits that are at least one-hundredth the size of conventional designs and suffer fr...
Bristol team chase down advantage in quantum race
Jan 27, 2022 (SPX)
Quantum computers promise exponential speedups for certain problems, with potential applications in areas from drug discovery to new materials for batteries. Bu...
Vibrating atoms make robust qubits, physicists find
Jan 27, 2022 (SPX)
The team was able to maintain this state of superposition among hundreds of vibrating pairs of fermions. In so doing, they achieved a new "quantum register," or...
Asymmetry is key to creating more stable blue perovskite LEDs
Jan 26, 2022 (SPX)
"Perovskites have the potential to be a real game-changer in the lighting industry," said first author Dr. Yuqiang Liu, a former post-doctoral researcher in the...
Reasserting U.S. leadership in microelectronics
Jan 20, 2022 (SPX)
But years before the pandemic-induced shortage took hold, the United States was already facing a growing chip crisis. Its longstanding dominance in microelectro...
Quantum computing in silicon hits 99% accuracy
Jan 20, 2022 (SPX)
"Today's publication shows our operations were 99 per cent error-free," says Professor Andrea Morello of UNSW, who led the work with partners in the US, Japan, ...
Semiconductor spin qubits gain further credibility as leading platform for quantum computing
Jan 20, 2022 (SPX)
Semiconductor spin qubits are well positioned as the building block for a future quantum computer. Among all the candidate platforms, electron spins in semicond...
How Sandia Labs is revealing the inner workings of quantum computers
Jan 20, 2022 (SPX)
Two papers published in the scientific journal Nature describe how separate research teams - one including Sandia researchers - used a Sandia technique called g...
World's first hBN-based deep ultraviolet LED
Jan 20, 2022 (SPX)
A POSTECH research team led by Professor Jonghwan Kim and Ph.D. candidates Su-Beom Song and Sangho Yoon (Department of Materials Science and Engineering) has pr...
Scientists achieve key elements for fault-tolerant quantum computation in silicon spin qubits
Jan 20, 2022 (SPX)
They were able to demonstrate a two-qubit gate fidelity of 99.5 percent-higher than the 99 percent considered to be the threshold for building fault-tolerant co...
Building a silicon quantum computer chip atom by atom
Jan 14, 2022 (SPX)
"We could 'hear' the electronic click as each atom dropped into one of 10,000 sites in our prototype device. Our vision is to use this technique to build a very...
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