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Researchers Create Nanoscale Light Sensor to Produce Hybrid Optic and Electronic Devices

University of Pittsburgh researchers have created a nanoscale light sensor that can be combined with near-atomic-size electronic circuitry to produce hybrid optic and electronic devices with new functionality. The tea...

15 Nov 2010

Debunking and Closing Quantum Entanglement "Loopholes"

An international team of physicists, including a scientist based at The University of Queensland, has recently closed an additional “loophole” in a test explaining one of science's strangest phenomena &md...

14 Nov 2010

Toyohashi Tech to Celebrate Launch of EIIRIS at International Symposium

Toyohashi University of Technology (Toyohashi Tech) will hold an international symposium on 15th and 16th November 2010 to celebrate the launch of its Electronics-Inspired Interdisciplinary Research Institute (EIIRIS). The symposia will be streamed live via the internet.

12 Nov 2010

R+D Magazine Awards Lincoln Laboratory Researcher as 2010 Young Innovator

Dr. Eric A. Dauler, a technical staff member in the Optical Communications Technology Group at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, has been selected the 2010 R&D Magazine Young Innovator of the Year.

12 Nov 2010

Novel Way Discovered to Join Light and Vibrations

Controlling and modulating the flow of light is essential in today's telecommunications-based society. Professor Tobias Kippenberg and his team in EPFL's Laboratory of Photonics and Quantum Measurements have discovered a novel way to couple light and vibrations.

12 Nov 2010

Researchers Find Tiny Biomolecules for Imaging by Combining Laser and Atomic Force Microscopy

The researchers characterize their new technique as a neat solution to the "needle in a haystack" problem of nanoscale microscopy, but it's more like the difference between finding the coffee table in a darkened room either by walking around until you fall over it, or using a flashlight.

From National Institute of Standards and Tech (NIST) 11 Nov 2010

Prof. Ron Folman to Receive 2011 Willis E. Lamb Award for Laser Science and Quantum Optics

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev's Prof. Ron Folman has been named as a recipient of the prestigious 2011 Willis E. Lamb Award for Laser Science and Quantum Optics. The award is presented annually in Utah for o...

11 Nov 2010

Quantum Computers Can Work with Faulty and Missing Components

Quantum computers should be much easier to build than previously thought, because they can still work with a large number of faulty or even missing components, according to a study published today in Physical Review Lett...

11 Nov 2010

UMD Professor Receives PECASE Award to do Research in Nanophotonics

JQI Fellows Edo Waks of the University of Maryland (UMD) and Ian Spielman of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) are among 85 scientists and engineers nationally to receive this year's Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE).

11 Nov 2010

Quantum Communication Networks High on Europe's Agenda

Quantum communication networks are high on Europe's agenda, with particular focus being given to quantum memory or information storage. Meeting the challenge head on to make such information accessible to users is a team of scientists from Denmark who used two 'entangled' light beams to store quantum information.

10 Nov 2010