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Imaging how magnetism goes surfing
Oct 10, 2017 (SPX)
This scientific area has attracted much interest due to its potential to write small magnetic elements with a low power electric field rather than magnetic fiel...
Quantum communications bend to our needs
Oct 10, 2017 (SPX)
An international team of researchers has started to unravel the mysteries of entangled photons, demonstrating a new nanoscale technique that uses semiconductor ...
Researchers report new way to make dissolving electronics
Oct 10, 2017 (SPX)
The work holds promise for eco-friendly disposable personal electronics and biomedical devices that dissolve within the body. There are also defense application...
Prototype shows how tiny photodetectors can double their efficiency
Oct 10, 2017 (SPX)
Photodetectors are almost ubiquitous, found in cameras, cell phones, remote controls, solar cells, and even the panels of space shuttles. Measuring just microns...
Extra sulphur improves electronic structure of quantum dots
Oct 10, 2017 (SPX)
Quantum dots are clusters of some 1,000 atoms which act as one large 'super-atom'. The dots, which are synthesized as colloids, i.e. suspended in a liquid like ...
New manufacturing process for SiC power devices opens market to more competition
Oct 10, 2017 (SPX)
"PRESiCE will allow more companies to get into the SiC market, because they won't have to initially develop their own design and manufacturing process for power...
A zero-index waveguide
Oct 10, 2017 (SPX)
Now, SEAS researchers have pushed that technology further - developing a zero-index waveguide compatible with current silicon photonic technologies. In doing so...
A flexible new platform for high-performance electronics
Oct 10, 2017 (SPX)
It's an advance that could open the door to an increasingly interconnected world, enabling manufacturers to add "smart," wireless capabilities to any number of ...
NUS scientists unravel new insights into promising semiconductor material
Oct 10, 2017 (SPX)
In two separate studies led by Professor Andrew Wee and Assistant Professor Andrivo Rusydi from the Department of Physics at the NUS Faculty of Science, the res...
High-speed quantum memory for photons
Oct 10, 2017 (SPX)
The researchers were able to store them in an atomic vapor and read them out again later without altering their quantum mechanical properties too much. This mem...
Newly-discovered semiconductor dynamics may help improve energy efficiency
Oct 10, 2017 (SPX)
Semiconductors are found in just about every piece of modern electronics, from computers to televisions to your cell phone. They fall somewhere between metals, ...
Columbia engineers invent breakthrough millimeter-wave circulator IC
Oct 09, 2017 (SPX)
Most devices are reciprocal: signals travel in the same manner in forward and reverse directions. Nonreciprocal devices, such as circulators, on the other hand,...
Bristol scientists pinpoint the singularity for quantum computers
Oct 05, 2017 (SPX)
Quantum computers are a new type of machine that operate on quantum mechanical hardware and are predicted to give enormous speed advantages in solving certain p...
Move towards 'holy grail' of computing by creation of brain-like photonic microchips
Oct 02, 2017 (SPX)
A research team, including Professor C. David Wright from the University of Exeter, have made a pioneering breakthrough by developing photonic computer chips - ...
Head of Taiwan microchip giant TSMC set to retire
Oct 02, 2017 (AFP)
Morris Chang, one of Taiwan's most revered business leaders, worked at US firm Texas Instruments and later headed Taiwan's Industrial Technology Research Instit...
Laser can control a current in graphene within one femtosecond
Sep 26, 2017 (SPX)
Scientists from the Chair of Laser Physics and the Chair of Applied Physics at Friedrich-Alexander-Universitat Erlangen-Nurnberg (FAU) have succeeded in switchi...
China-backed fund to buy British chipmaker after US snub
Sep 25, 2017 (AFP)
Canyon Bridge will pay 550 million pounds cash ($743 million) for the British group, which specialises in mobile graphics processor technology, Imagination said...
New quantum computer chip uses sounds waves to store data
Sep 22, 2017 (UPI)
The device uses a bulk acoustic wave resonator to store, move and translate quantum information embedded in qubits, or quantum bits. The new, simple and more ef...
Quantum sensors decipher magnetic ordering in semiconducting material
Sep 15, 2017 (SPX)
The results - obtained by scientists from the University of Basel's Department of Physics, the Swiss Nanoscience Institute, the University of Montpellier and se...
The dark side of quantum computers
Sep 15, 2017 (SPX)
The expectation is that quantum computers will be built some time after 2025. Such computers make use of quantum-mechanical properties and can therefore solve s...
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