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New lab-on-a-chip infection test produces diagnostic results in minutes

Dec 02, 2020 (UPI)

PCR is usually performed in the lab, but the new lab-on-a-chip, described Wednesday in the journal Nature Communications, could allow diagnostic testing to be d...

Magnetic vortices come full circle

Dec 01, 2020 (SPX)

More intricate magnetization textures are at the heart of many modern technologies, such as hard disk drives. Now, an international team of scientists at the Pa...

Lower current leads to highly efficient memory

Dec 01, 2020 (SPX)

The field of quantum computing often gets covered in the technical press; however, another emerging field along similar lines tends to get overlooked, and that ...

World's smallest atom-memory unit created

Nov 27, 2020 (SPX)

The research published recently in Nature Nanotechnology builds on a discovery from two years ago, when the researchers created what was then the thinnest memor...

Spintronics advances controlling magnetization direction of magnetite at room temperature

Nov 18, 2020 (SPX)

Current spintronic devices - for example, magnetic tunnel junctions - suffer from limitations such as high-power consumption, low operating temperatures, and se...

Telling when a nanolithography mold will break through droplets

Nov 12, 2020 (SPX)

Ultraviolet nanoimprint lithography (UV-NIL) is a manufacturing technique for producing nanostructures using UV-curable resin. One of its main advantages is its...

Sticky electrons: When repulsion turns into attraction

Nov 11, 2020 (SPX)

A few years ago, scientists at TU Wien were already able to clarify mathematically where the boundary lies between the area that follows the known rules and the...

Tiny device enables new record in super-fast quantum light detection

Nov 10, 2020 (SPX)

Researchers from the University of Bristol's Quantum Engineering Technology Labs (QET Labs) and Universite Cote d'Azur have made a new miniaturized light detect...

'Electronic skin' promises cheap and recyclable alternative to wearable devices

Nov 09, 2020 (SPX)

The team, led by Jianliang Xiao and Wei Zhang, describes its new "electronic skin" in a paper published in the journal Science Advances. The device can heal its...

A new candidate material for quantum spin liquids

Nov 09, 2020 (SPX)

What makes a magnet? It was a long-lasting mystery, but today we finally know that magnetism arises from a peculiar property of sub-atomic particles, like elect...

Applying particle physics methods to quantum computing

Nov 06, 2020 (SPX)

In the world of subatomic particles and giant particle detectors, and distant galaxies and giant telescopes, scientists have learned to live, and to work, with ...

Blue phosphorus: How a semiconductor becomes a metal

Nov 06, 2020 (SPX)

The chemical element phosphorus is considered one of the most essential elements for life. Phosphorus compounds are deeply involved in the structure and functio...

Next-generation computer chip with two heads

Nov 06, 2020 (SPX)

Their revolutionary technology is the first to use a 2D material for what's called a logic-in-memory architecture, or a single architecture that combines logic ...

Lighting up the ion trap

Nov 05, 2020 (SPX)

Now, MIT Lincoln Laboratory researchers have developed a compact way to deliver laser light to trapped ions. In a recent paper published in Nature, the research...

Devil in the defect detail of quantum emissions unravelled

Nov 03, 2020 (SPX)

In many cases the ability to generate quantum light on-demand requires the manipulation and control of single atoms or molecules, pushing the limit of modern fa...

Breakthrough quantum-dot transistors create a flexible alternative to conventional electronics

Nov 02, 2020 (SPX)

The innovation promises a cheaper and manufacturing-friendly approach to complex electronic devices that can be fabricated in a chemistry laboratory via simple,...

A new spin on atoms gives scientists a closer look at quantum weirdness

Nov 02, 2020 (SPX)

Now a team of Princeton researchers, led by Jeff Thompson, an assistant professor of electrical engineering, has developed a new way to control and measure atom...

Marvell to acquire Inphi in latest chipmaker tie-up

Oct 29, 2020 (AFP)

The deal combines Marvell's strength in the digital storage industry with Inphi's operations in high-speed data movement. The news comes two days after Advanced...

Intel powers first satellite with AI on board

Oct 28, 2020 (SPX)

PhiSat-1 contains a new hyperspectral-thermal camera and onboard AI processing thanks to an Intel Movidius Myriad 2 Vision Processing Unit (VPU) - the same chip...

Quantum gauntlet has to be thrown down

Oct 27, 2020 (XNA)

That Xi Jinping, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, stressed the importance and urgency for the Party to deepen its understanding of the cutting-ed...