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Optimizing The Design Of Compact Coupler

Integrated circuits — the tiny silicon chips running inside computers, mobile phones and cameras — represent one of the most important innovations of the twentieth century. The development of integrated circu...

10 Nov 2010

New Findings Reveal That Building a Quantum Computer Might be Easier

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...

10 Nov 2010

QD Vision, Solvay to Develop Printable Platform for Quantum Dot LEDs

QD Vision, Inc. and Solvay today announced an agreement under which the companies will develop a printable electroluminescent platform for quantum dot LEDs (QLEDs) that will lead to a new generation of solid state lighting products.

9 Nov 2010

BGU’s Quantum Physicist Wins 2011 Willis E. Lamb Award

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...

9 Nov 2010

EYP Heads to NanoTech Campus

EYP Architecture and Engineering PC (EYP) of Albany announced plans to establish and expand its headquarters and operations at the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE) of the University at Albany. The move...

9 Nov 2010

Super-Twisted Light and 'HD Video Holography'

Various methods of scattering light and its potential applications in scientific and industrial procedures are taking the world by storm. The two most recent developments that have caught attention are, the formation of ...

9 Nov 2010

"Laser Targeting" for Nanoscale 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) 9 Nov 2010

Relativistic Transparency in Plasma Has Potential to Function Like Optical Switch

Just like an electrical switch allows the flow of electricity into electrical circuits, relativistic transparency in plasma can act like a fast optical switch allowing the flow of light through otherwise opaque plasma. ...

9 Nov 2010

Researchers Successfully Store Quantum Information Using Two Entangled Light Beams

Researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen have succeeded in storing quantum information using two 'entangled' light beams.

9 Nov 2010

Agilent Technologies, Wyss Institute to Advance Genome Engineering and Nanobiotechnology

Agilent Technologies Inc. and the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University today announced an agreement to work together to develop innovative tools, technologies and instruments that will advance human health and improve the environment.

From Agilent Technologies Inc. 9 Nov 2010