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Weiss Family Donate $1 Million to Nanotechnology Research Institute

American Associates, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev has received a $1 million pledge from long-time Ben-Gurion Society members Henry and Anita Weiss to further nanotechnology research.

4 May 2012

Nanonics Imaging Hosts User Workshop during CLEO Conference in San Jose, CA

Nanonics Imaging is pleased to invite its current and future customers to an upcoming User Workshop on Tuesday, May 8th from 6:00 - 8:00 pm at the F1 Conference Room in the San Jose Convention Center. The Workshop, to be held during the CLEO 2012 Conference & Exhibition, will feature prominent scientists presenting new developments and research highlights related to their work using Nanonics systems.

2 May 2012

Single nanomaterial yields many laser colors

Red, green, and blue lasers have become small and cheap enough to find their way into products ranging from BluRay DVD players to fancy pens, but each color is made with different semiconductor materials and by elaborate...

30 Apr 2012

Minalogic-Supported Delpix Project Adapts X-ray Tomography to Real-time Quality Inspection on the Manufacturing-Line

Minalogic has announced that the Delpix project has enabled the creation of a full X-ray rapid-tomography system for quality inspection on the production line.

30 Apr 2012

Study Shows Landau-Fermi Liquid Theory Breaks Down at Quantum Critical Point

A team of physicists from the Rice University, University of California, Los Angeles, and two Max Planck Institutes in Germany has discovered that electrons violate Landau-Fermi liquid theory only at quantum critical points (QCPs) but behave as explained by the theory on either side of a QCP.

From University of California, Los Angeles 27 Apr 2012

New Quantum Simulator Promotes Interactions Between Hundreds of Qubits

A research team from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has developed a quantum simulator capable of engineering interplays between hundreds of qubits, a 10-fold increase when compared to earlier devices.

From National Institute of Standards and Tech (NIST) 27 Apr 2012

Key Industry Figures Join Board of CRANN, Progressing Strategy for Nanoscience Commercialisation

CRANN (Centre for Research on Adaptive Nanostructures and Nanodevices), the Science Foundation Ireland funded nanoscience institute based in Trinity College Dublin (TCD), today announced the addition of three new Board m...

26 Apr 2012

Researchers Receive Grants to Use Semiconductor Devices for Quantum Communication

Professor John Rarity and Dr Ruth Oulton from the University of Bristol’s Centre for Quantum Photonics have received a Future and Emerging Technologies grant worth €2 million from the European Commission and a CHIST-ERA award worth €1.1 million from national funding agencies in Europe.

26 Apr 2012

Quantum Mechanics Imitates Influence of Future Actions on Past Events

Researchers of the team of Professor Anton Zeilinger at the Vienna Center for Quantum Science and Technology and the University of Vienna’s Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information have experimentally demonstrated for the first time that it is possible to know whether two particles were in a separable or in an entangled quantum state even after their measurement or if they no longer exist.

25 Apr 2012

NAPANIL Project Presents Latest Nanoimprinting Lithography Applications at Photonics Europe

A European project titled Nanopatterning, Production and Applications based on Nanoimprinting Lithography (NAPANIL) has delivered presentations on its final results at Photonics Europe held from April 16 to 18, 2012 in Brussels.

23 Apr 2012