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Life Expectancy on the Rise - Even for Quantum States

Life Expectancy on the Rise -- Even for Quantum States

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Apr 14, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time, scientists have succeeded in measuring and controlling the lifetime of quantum states with potential use in optoelectronic chips. This achievement is highly significant ...





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Nanowire Formation

Nanowires key to future transistors, electronics

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Nov 26, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (12) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new generation of ultrasmall transistors and more powerful computer chips using tiny structures called semiconducting nanowires are closer to reality after a key discovery by researchers ...


SKoreans demonstrate spin-injected field effect transistor

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Sep 18, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 3

South Korean scientists said Friday they had demonstrated a spin-injected field effect transistor in a high-mobility InAs heterostructure.


Danish nanowires have great potential

Danish nanowires have great potential

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Danish nanophysicists have developed a new method for manufacturing the cornerstone of nanotechnology research - nanowires. The discovery has great potential for the development of nanoelectronics and highly ...


Operating quantum memory at room temperature

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 25, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (42) | comments 0

Quantum dots, along with quantum wires, have been attracting notice over the past decade as possible building blocks of quantum information processing. Indium arsenide quantum dots (InAs) can be used for memory operations ...


Nanosys Announces Issued Patent Covering Fundamental Nanowire Heterostructures

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created May 06, 2005 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Nanosys have announced the issuance of U.S. Patent No. 6,882,051 (the '051 patent) entitled "Nanowires, nanostructures and devices fabricated therefrom," by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. This patent, exclusively licensed ...


Scientists to study diamond-based quantum information processing, communication

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Apr 15, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(Santa Barbara, Calif.) -- In the quest for quantum information processing, diamonds may be a physicist's best friend.


Gold solution for enhancing nanocrystal electrical conductance

Gold solution for enhancing nanocrystal electrical conductance

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Sep 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

In a development that holds much promise for the future of solar cells made from nanocrystals, and the use of solar energy to produce clean and renewable liquid transportation fuels, researchers with the U.S. ...


Superconductivity Physicists Puzzled by the Weird Behavior of Electrons

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created Jul 30, 2004 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The weird behavior of electrons tunneling across an atomically flat interface within a cuprate superconductor has defied explanation by theories of high-temperature superconductivity. As will be reported in the journal Physical Review Letters, a team of scientists l ...


Schematic diagram of a compact multiple quantum well Digital Optical Tag (DOT)

DoD, Calit2 Fund $500,000 Investment in Advanced Chip Technology

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created Mar 29, 2005 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The U.S. Department of Defense and the UCSD division of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) will jointly fund acquisition of a state-of-the-art system for depositing ...



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