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Harvard Physicists Achieve Milestone in Quantum Computing

A team of Harvard physicists led by Mikhail D. Lukin has achieved the first-ever quantum entanglement of photons and solid-state materials. The work marks a key advance toward practical quantum networks, as the first exp...

5 Aug 2010

Advancement in New Branch of Nano-Optics, Plasmonics

Surface plasmons are quanta of collective oscillations of free electrons at metal-insulator interface, usually excited by photons. Since it was first proposed in 1950s by Ritchie, new interests have been aroused due to r...

5 Aug 2010

Researchers Measure Quantum Oscillations of Valence Electrons Using Spectroscopy Technique

An international team of scientists led by groups from the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (MPQ) in Garching, Germany, and from the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California at Berkeley has used ultrashort flashes of laser light to directly observe the movement of an atom's outer electrons for the first time.

5 Aug 2010

Nanotechnology Corporation Reveals Technology Roadmap on LEDs

The roadmap “The use of nanotechnologies in the manufacturing of Light-emitting diodes” describes the different types of light-emitting devices and compares their possible market future with trends observed c...

4 Aug 2010

New Biomedical Optics Express Journal Released by OSA

The Optical Society (OSA) announced today the launch and publication of the first issue of its newest monthly journal, Biomedical Optics Express. With a focus on biomedical optics and photonics, Biomedical Optics Express joins OSA's diverse portfolio of 14 peer-reviewed optics journals.

4 Aug 2010

CHAD Develops Tooling Options to Handle Smaller Sapphire Wafers

CHAD Industries announced today that it has developed wafer-handling capabilities for Sapphire wafers used in the LED market.

4 Aug 2010

MURI Grant Helps to Tackle Major Challenges in Quantum Computer Development

A research team based at the University of Pittsburgh has received a five-year, $7.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Defense to tackle some of the most significant challenges preventing the development of quant...

4 Aug 2010

New Model Contributes to Quantum Gravity Theory

All of the matter in the universe—everything we see, feel and smell—has a certain predictable structure, thanks to the tiny electrons spinning around their atomic nuclei in a series of concentric shells or at...

4 Aug 2010

TruMicro Lasers from TRUMPF Ideal for Thin-Film Solar Cell Processing

"The laser as an industrial tool is a key technology in the photovoltaics industry," said Jürgen Stollhof, Program Manager Micro Processing at TRUMPF Inc., Farmington, USA. In his presentation "New lasertechnology to enhance the performance of photovoltaic cells," which was delivered at the trade fair Intersolar North America, July 2010 in San Francisco, he stated that new laser technologies, such as ultra-short pulsed lasers, for example, make new production methods possible.

3 Aug 2010

Software Speeds Nanotechnology Research Development at Brookhaven National Laboratory

Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK) has named Brookhaven National Laboratory (Brookhaven Lab) — a national research laboratory overseen by the Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy — as the Autodesk In...

From Brookhaven National Laboratory 2 Aug 2010