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Reactive Reports Issue 30 David Bradley	Shedding light on quantum dots Hybridising an inorganic nanocrystal and a quantum dot lead to a quantum dot-organic light-emitting device (QD-OLED) a new kind of optoelectronic device that could lead to new types of flat panel displays to supersede liquid crystal displays in everything from mobile devices to TV sets.
IEEE Spectrum February 2010 Edward H. Sargent	Infrared Optoelectronics You Can Apply With a Brush Infrared quantum dots will lead to cheaper photovoltaic cells. When the fabrication of optoelectronic devices becomes almost as easy as splashing paint on a canvas, our assumptions about the high cost of high-performance optoelectronic devices will be turned on its head.
Technology Research News September 8, 2004	Photonic Crystal Throttles Light Researchers have showed that the spacing of a photonic crystal can be used to control the timing of light emitted by a quantum dot.
IEEE Spectrum January 2009 Jean Kumagai	Winner: Quantum Leap Quantum-dot lasers from Japan's QD Laser will make high-speed "fiber to the home" networks simpler, cheaper, and more power-efficient
Reactive Reports Issue 40 David Bradley	A Golden Glow A new class of quantum dots made from small clusters of gold atoms is at the heart of fluorescing "artificial atoms" that could act as biological labels and nanoscale optoelectronics.
IEEE Spectrum September 2007 Lieven Vandersypen	Dot-to-Dot Design Researchers are connecting tiny puddles of electrons in a chip and making them compute -- the quantum way.
Chemistry World June 12, 2015 Tim Wogan	New synthesis heralds low-cost quantum dots Quantum dots could become commonplace in display screens thanks to a new synthesis technique that should make them cheaper
Chemistry World July 19, 2007 Tom Westgate	Striped Nanorods Feel the Strain Stripy nanorods containing evenly spaced quantum dots have been prepared thanks to strain forces
Technology Research News January 1, 2003 Eric Smalley	Electron pairs power quantum plan Researchers from HP Laboratories and Qinetiq plc in England have mapped out a way to manipulate a pair of very cold electrons that could eventually lead to practical quantum computers made from quantum dots, or tiny specks of the type of semiconductor material used in electronics.
Scientific American December 5, 2005 Graham P. Collins	Cheaper Dots A new process slashes the cost of quantum dots (fluorescent nanoparticles of semiconducting material).
Technology Research News January 28, 2004	Protein orders semiconductor bits Researchers working to make structures at the size-scale of molecules are tapping self-assembly techniques found in nature. Researchers have found a way to construct fairly complicated nanostructures by combining a genetically engineered form of the protein cohesin with quantum dots.
Technology Research News November 3, 2004 Eric Smalley	Single Field Shapes Quantum Bits Researchers have recently realized that it may be possible to control the electrons in a quantum computer using a single magnetic field rather than having to produce extremely small, precisely focused magnetic fields for each electron.
Chemistry World February 10, 2006 Jon Evans	Medical Future for Tiny Quantum Dots U.S. researchers have crossed a milestone in biological imaging by developing quantum dots small enough to pass from the blood stream into bodily tissue.
IEEE Spectrum August 2012 Prachi Patel	Quantum Dots Are Behind New Displays They make LCDs brighter and could challenge OLEDs for future TV dominance
Technology Research News February 23, 2005	Light writes data in electrons Researchers developed a spin memory device that writes data as electron spins using lasers, stores the electrons in quantum dots, and reads spin information by applying a voltage to the quantum dots to generate photons.
Industrial Physicist Aug/Sep 2004 Eric J. Lerner	News: Plasmon microscopy A new technique allows far-field optical microscopy with resolutions well below the wavelength of light.
Chemistry World May 31, 2006 Jon Evans	Carbon Joins the Dots Carbon could soon replace cadmium as the material of choice for quantum dots, following the development of fluorescent carbon nanoparticles by scientists.
Chemistry World July 10, 2014	Emily Weiss: Tuneable illumination Research in the Weiss group looks at the fundamental physical chemistry of colloidal semiconductor quantum dots in both the solution and solid phase.
IEEE Spectrum December 2007 Sarah Adee	Scientists Start Quest for the Silicon Quantum Computer Sandia research could link silicon circuits to quantum computers.
Technology Research News December 19, 2005	Quantum computing: qubits Quantum bits, or qubits, are the quantum equivalent of the transistors that make up today's computers. There are four established qubit candidates: ion traps, quantum dots, semiconductor impurities, and superconducting circuits.
Technology Research News June 1, 2005 Eric Smalley	Speedy Photon Detector Debuts Researchers have devised a fast, efficient photon detector that senses individual photons.
Bio-IT World February 18, 2004	Quantum Dot Thinks Big People pay good money for Quantum Dot's products -- tiny semiconductors just about 10 nanometers across. To pharmaceutical companies, medical researchers, and diagnostic labs, these "quantum dots" are more valuable than precious metals.
Technology Research News December 29, 2004	TRN's Top Picks: Technology Research Advances of 2004 Biotechnology... Communications... Computer chips... Computer interfaces... Engineering... etc.
Technology Research News August 11, 2004	Speck trios make secret codes Researchers have devised a way to use quantum dots -- tiny bits of semiconductor -- to print invisible secret codes onto surfaces. The method could be used to authenticate valuable documents like passports and certificates.
PC Magazine July 13, 2004 Jim Akin	Nanotechnology Size Matters Incubating inside this tiny world are some big ideas that could improve everything from manufacturing to health care.
IEEE Spectrum October 2005 Salvatore Coffa	Light From Silicon For decades, silicon was a semiconducting dim bulb, but now we can make it into LEDs that match the best made from more exotic materials
The Motley Fool May 5, 2005 Carl Wherrett	Is IBM a Rule Breaker? Big Blue broke some rules on its rise. Are those days behind it now?
Technology Research News February 12, 2003 Eric Smalley	Logic scheme gains power Researchers from the University of Notre Dame have pushed an alternative computer chip architecture a step forward by finding a way to refresh the short-lived signals the scheme uses to represent the 1s and 0s of digital information.
Industrial Physicist Theis & Coufal	How IBM Sustains the Leading Edge Although we constantly focus on the market, IBM Research has also produced a remarkable string of scientific firsts in physics and in other fields of science and engineering.
IEEE Spectrum August 2007 Stick et al.	The Trap Technique In this first part of a two-part series, the authors discuss how today's computers are running out of room for classical physics to work and how working with the quantum nature of things instead of against it will open up vast new frontiers for computing.
Industrial Physicist Feb/Mar 2003 Patrick Young	Forum: Small focus brings big rewards Focusing on small things in innovative ways figured prominently in earning high honors for 10 researchers, the winners of six prized awards in physics.
Technology Research News February 26, 2003 Eric Smalley	Quantum computing catches the bus National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) researchers have tapped an aspect of classical computers and a pair of weird particle traits to allow distant particles, or qubits, to communicate as though they were in contact.
Technology Research News April 23, 2003 Eric Smalley	Nanocomputer skips clock Harnessing nanotechnology to build computer chips could lead to ultrafast, ultracheap, low- power computers. But today's chip designs don't translate well to the molecular scale. One proposal calls for throwing out the clock.
IEEE Spectrum July 2011 Joel E. Moore	Topological Insulators Quantum magic can make strange but useful semiconductors that are insulators on the inside and conductors on the surface
Chemistry World August 2, 2006 Bea Perks	Quantum Leap for Virus Trackers Glowing quantum dots are helping researchers study how viruses infect cells, and although the fluorescent nanoparticles have only been used on plant viruses so far, the technique could prove to be invaluable for drug development.
Technology Research News January 29, 2003 Eric Smalley	Quantum computers go digital One of the challenges of building a quantum computer is reducing errors. Researchers from the University of Wisconsin at Madison have eased the problem with a method that reduces error rates by two orders of magnitude.
Chemistry World November 27, 2006 Simon Hadlington	Getting the Dope on a Single Atom of Dopant Scientists have successfully probed the electronic and quantum mechanical properties of a single atom of dopant in a silicon transistor. The research could provide important information necessary for the development of quantum computers.
BusinessWeek March 15, 2004 John Carey	Physics: "Putting The Weirdness To Work" Scientists say quantum materials will be the basis for amazing devices, but when?
IEEE Spectrum March 2011 Saswato R. Das	A Crowd of Quantum Entanglements Phosphorus-in-silicon system could lead to quantum computers
National Defense October 2009 Grace V. Jean	The Promise of the World's Smallest Lasers Recent advances in power efficiency, design and high temperature functionality have pushed ultra-thin semiconductor lasers closer to real-world utility.
Technology Research News August 11, 2004 Eric Smalley	Chips measure electron spin Practical quantum computers are at least a decade away, and some researchers are betting that they will never be built. But a pair of recent experiments may prove them wrong.
Chemistry World December 19, 2012	Overcoming small obstacles What if photolithography hits a barrier it cannot breach? That question has motivated scientists to recruit chemistry to a series of printing methods with the power to engineer nanometre-scale materials.
Technology Research News April 21, 2004 Eric Smalley	Optical Quantum Memory Designed Quantum computers that use photons rather than atoms or electrons are appealing because the equipment needed to handle them can be relatively simple. A scheme for trapping photons in fiber-optic loops and replacing the photons that the loops absorb could be the answer.
Technology Research News September 10, 2003 Eric Smalley	Electron teams make bigger qubits Making quantum computers from electronic chips rather than cumbersome laboratory equipment requires control over individual electrons. A scheme that has a string of electrons acting as one could ease the task by expanding the target to a whopping 250 millionths of a millimeter.
Technology Research News April 6, 2005	Optics Demo Does Quantum Logic Researchers from the University of Science and Technology of China and the University of Heidelberg in Germany have demonstrated a method of using four photons to form a logic gate that can be used for quantum computing.
Chemistry World November 23, 2015 Tim Wogan	Capturing infrared to give solar cells a lift A new technique for converting infrared photons into visible ones using quantum dots has been demonstrated by researchers in the US.
Wired September 2001 Mark K. Anderson	Liquid Logic Say good-bye to the either-or binary digit. Quantum computing is riding a new wave of supercool subatomic bits that can be both 1 and 0 at once...
Technology Research News August 27, 2003	Tool sketches quantum circuits Researchers from Cambridge University in England and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a lithographic technique, dubbed erasable electrostatic lithography, that allows a quantum device to be drawn in a few hours rather than a couple of weeks.
InternetNews March 15, 2005 Michael Singer	HP Plots Its Nano Course Company believes in moving computing beyond silicon to the world of molecular-scale electronics.