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Modeling of Nanowire Transistors Shows that Quantum Effects Must be Taken into Account in Their Design

Silicon nanowires are a leading candidate for use in next-generation transistors because they allow for high densities and speeds, as well as low operating power. Numerical modeling is a key part of nanowire transistor d...

16 Feb 2010

Physicists Develop Experiment to Investigate Random Motion of Quantum Particles

Life would sometimes be so much easier if we were quantum particles. For example, if we were trying to find our way out of a strange town allowing chance telling us which way to go at every intersection. As objects of classical physics, this would mean becoming more and more lost in the centre of the road network.

16 Feb 2010

Diamond-Based Nanowire Devices Advance Quantum Science and Technology

By creating diamond-based nanowire devices, a team of Harvard researchers has taken another step toward making applications based on quantum science and technology possible.

15 Feb 2010

Diamond Nanowires Providing New Options for High-Speed Computing

Diamonds are renowned for their seemingly flawless physical beauty and their interplay with light.Now researchers are taking advantage of the mineral's imperfections to control that light at the atomic scale, generating one photon at a time.

15 Feb 2010

Data Suggest Symmetry May 'Melt' Along with Protons and Neutrons

Scientists at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), a 2.4-mile-circumference particle accelerator at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, report the first hints of profound symmetry transformations in the hot soup of quarks, antiquarks, and gluons produced in RHIC's most energetic collisions.

From Brookhaven National Laboratory 15 Feb 2010

Conference Discusses Emerging Silicon-Based Nanotechnologies for Advanced Information and Communication Devices

A conference which will discuss emerging silicon-based nanotechnologies for advanced information + communication devices which mean that mobile phones and computers will be even lighter, more functional and more economic...

15 Feb 2010

British Nanotechnology Pioneer Receives £1.1 Million Investment

Further to its recent announcements of licensing agreements with Nissha and Samson Electro-mechanics for 3D input technology for mobile phones, Peratech Limited has announced that YFM Group managed Partnership Investment...

14 Feb 2010

Researchers Use Quantum Entanglement to Stack Light Particles

While many of us enjoyed constructing little houses out of toy bricks when we were kids, this task is much more difficult if bricks are elementary particles. It is even harder if these are particles of light - photons, w...

14 Feb 2010

Another Step Towards Making Applications Based on Quantum Science and Technology Possible

By creating diamond-based nanowire devices, a team at Harvard has taken another step towards making applications based on quantum science and technology possible.

14 Feb 2010

Using Nanotechnology to Turn Light into Electrical Current

Material scientists at the Nano/Bio Interface Center of the University of Pennsylvania have demonstrated the transduction of optical radiation to electrical current in a molecular circuit.

12 Feb 2010