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New Study Helps Better Understand Correlated Electron Dynamics

Kansas State University scientists and an international team of researchers are now able to observe double ionization events at attosecond timescale, thus paving the way to better understand the interactions between light and matter.

17 May 2012

Researchers Develop New Metamaterial Using Aluminum-Doped Zinc Oxide

Purdue University researchers have discovered a way to synthesize metamaterials without using conventional gold or silver, which are expensive and incompatible with semiconductor production processes.

17 May 2012

Researchers Measure Quantum Phase of Electrons

Researchers at the Vienna University of Technology are now able to study an electron’s removal from an atom by a powerful laser beam with a time resolution of below 10 as.

16 May 2012

Quantum Effects Increase with Temperature in Water Ice

In a paper, ‘Anomalous Nuclear Quantum Effects in Ice,’ reported in the Physical Review Letters journal, a team of scientists from the Stony Brook University Department of Physics & Astronomy and the Department of Condensed Matter Physics at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM) has for the first time explained about a mystifying water anomaly in ice.

11 May 2012

Cornell Researchers Develop Viable Process for Nanocrystal Infra-red LEDs

Light-emitting diodes at infrared wavelengths are the magic behind such things as night vision and optical communications, including the fiber-optic backbone of the internet. Researchers at Cornell University have advanc...

10 May 2012

Researchers Improve Fluorescent Efficiency of Quantum Dots Using Formic Acid

A research team led by Sandra Rosenthal from the Vanderbilt University has discovered a way to improve white-light quantum dots’ fluorescent efficiency up to 45%, a more than 10-fold increase from an initial level of 3%.

10 May 2012

MIT Professor Receives 2012 Nano Letters Young Investigator Lectureship Award

Silvija Gradeèak, who serves as the Thomas Lord Assistant Professor in Materials Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has won the 2012 Nano Letters Young Investigator Lectureship award.

9 May 2012

NASA’s Phase II Grant to Boston Micromachines to Build High-Reliability MEMS Deformable Mirrors

NASA's Small Business Innovation Research Program has awarded a $750,000 Phase II contract to Boston Micromachines, a company specializing in adaptive optics systems and MEMS-based deformable mirror (DM) products, to assist NASA's Exoplanet Exploration program.

9 May 2012

Simulations of Reality Need Less Memory on Quantum Computers

Researchers from the University of Bristol have demonstrated that quantum computer may need lesser memory for simulations of reality when compared to a classical computer.

5 May 2012

Researchers Develop Ultrafast, Low-Energy Quantum-Dot Switch

At the Joint Quantum Institute, a research team, comprising Edo Waks and colleagues, has developed an all-optical switch utilizing a quantum dot integrated within a tiny hole-free arcade, which behaves like a resonant cavity.

5 May 2012