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Ultra Bright Single Photon Source Article Makes Cover of Nature Photonics

Stefan Strauf, Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics & Engineering Physics at Stevens Institute of Technology, along with colleagues from the University of California, Santa Barbara and Leiden University (...

7 Dec 2007

MIT Researchers Say Key to Energy Savings Rests With Nanotechnology Enhanced Thermoelectric Materials

Breathing new life into an old idea, MIT Institute Professor Mildred S. Dresselhaus and co-workers are developing innovative materials for controlling temperatures that could lead to substantial energy savings by allowin...

21 Nov 2007

Nanotech Becomes a Commercial Reality With $50 Billion in Product Sales

For two decades, the term “nanotechnology” has been primarily associated with an R&D race spanning the public and private sectors. But nanotech is now shifting from discovery to commercialization, with $5...

21 Nov 2007

Optical Technique Developed for Controlling Spins in Groups of Quantum Dots

Scientists are closer to developing novel devices for optics-based quantum computing and quantum information processing, as a result of a breakthrough in understanding how to make all the spins in an ensemble of quantum ...

19 Nov 2007

Nanoparticle Images and Treats Cancer, Reports on Drug Delivery

Using a quantum dot plus an aptamer that doubles as a tether for the anticancer drug doxorubicin, a team of investigators at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)-Harvard Center of Cancer Nanotechnology Excelle...

8 Nov 2007

Quantum Dot Transistor can Count Individual Photons

A transistor containing quantum dots that can count individual photons (the smallest particles of light) has been designed and demonstrated at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The semiconductor ...

15 Oct 2007

Scientists Investigate the Blinking of Quantum Dots

In order to learn more about the origins of quantum dot blinking, researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory, the University of Chicago and the California Institute of Technology hav...

5 Oct 2007

Quantum Device Traps, Detects and Manipulates Spin of Single Electrons

A novel device, developed by a team led by University at Buffalo engineers, simply and conveniently traps, detects and manipulates the single spin of an electron, overcoming some major obstacles that have prevented progr...

28 Sep 2007

PET Scanning Tracks Injected Quantum Dots

A wide variety of experiments have shown that nanoscale quantum dots have the potential to detect early-stage cancer and even monitor the progress of anticancer therapies. But a new study from a team of investigators...

28 Sep 2007

New Record Set for Quantum Dot Brightness

By placing quantum dots on a specially designed photonic crystal, researchers at the University of Illinois have demonstrated enhanced fluorescence intensity by a factor of up to 108. Potential applications include high-...

26 Sep 2007