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Technology Research News November 5, 2003 |
Rig fires more photon pairs Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have moved the field of quantum communications forward with entangled photon beams that contain specific wavelengths of light and are relatively bright. |
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. |
Technology Research News October 20, 2004 |
Crystal links ultraviolet photons Researchers from Tohoku University in Japan have moved the quest to control entanglement forward with a method that uses the energy from a pair of photons to produce a pair of entangled photons that have the same energy state as the original photons |
Technology Research News August 10, 2005 Eric Smalley |
Pixels speed quantum crypto Crossing quantum physics with computer displays yields a new way of encoding information in photons. Using photons as pixels lets researchers encode more information per photon, promising higher data rates for quantum cryptography. |
Technology Research News April 6, 2005 |
Trapped Light Pulses Interact Researchers at Harvard University have showed that light pulses can be trapped and held in a rubidium vapor and made to interact with one another. The method could eventually be used in quantum cryptographic and quantum computing schemes. |
Technology Research News January 29, 2003 Eric Smalley |
Faster quantum crypto demoed Working out how to use only standard telecommunications gear to transmit cryptographic keys could dramatically improve quantum cryptography's paltry performance. |
The Motley Fool June 13, 2006 Dan Bloom |
Texas Instruments Gets Tinier The company finds a watery way to create smaller, faster, cheaper chips. |
IEEE Spectrum November 2008 Chris A. Mack |
Seeing Double Someday, chips might be made with X-rays. Until then, double-patterning lithography will be the only game in town. |
Technology Research News December 31, 2003 Eric Smalley |
Light frozen in place Researchers at Harvard University have trapped and held a light pulse still for a few hundredths of a millisecond. |
IEEE Spectrum September 2006 J R Minkel |
A Tabletop UV Microscope With the recent demonstration of a high-resolution ultraviolet microscope that fits on a tabletop, semiconductor manufacturing and basic science researchers alike may soon have a far easier time getting the images they need. |
Technology Research News February 12, 2003 Eric Smalley |
Teleportation goes the distance Teleportation makes it possible to transmit the quantum states, or structural information, of photons from one place to another. And making photons from one location materialize at another without traveling the distance between opens the way for sending messages long distances. |
Technology Research News April 21, 2004 |
Photons Teleported Six Kilometers Real-life teleportation will never come close to the teleportation of fiction, but instantly sending single quantum particles like photons from one place to another has been proved possible in laboratory experiments and promises to extend the reach of quantum cryptography, which offers potentially perfect security. |
Technology Research News September 22, 2004 Eric Smalley |
Bank Transfer Demos Quantum Crypto As quantum cryptography nears practical application, researchers are working on the next generation of the technology, which includes the weird quantum phenomenon of entanglement. |
National Defense January 2013 Valerie Insinna |
Company Unveils New Detection Technique for Small Drones A new radar technique could help to improve the detection of small unmanned aerial vehicles, according to SRC Inc. The company received a patent for its interleaved beam coherent radar apparatus and processing method in October. |
Chemistry World January 16, 2012 Kate McAlpine |
Stripped down spectroscopy to probe single molecules Spectroscopy, a key method of identifying atoms and molecules with light, has been taken to its most fundamental level - a single photon absorbed by a single molecule. |
IEEE Spectrum January 2012 Katie M. Palmer |
EUV Faces Its Most Critical Test 2012 will be the make-or-break year for extreme ultraviolet lithography |
IEEE Spectrum June 2009 Saswato Das |
Two-Laser Lithography Shrinks Transistors A new microscopy technique gets adapted for chipmaking |
Technology Research News February 25, 2004 Eric Smalley |
Simple optics make quantum relay Quantum cryptography devices and networks, which transport photons whose properties can be used to represent the 1s and 0s of digital information, could also benefit from repeaters. |
Technology Research News April 9, 2003 Eric Smalley |
Fiber loop makes quantum memory A relatively simple device that sends individual photons cycling through a fiber-optic loop could provide the memory needed to make ultra powerful computers that use the quantum states of light as bits. |
IEEE Spectrum December 2007 Neil Savage |
Slower Light for Faster Telecom Networks Promising research could yield better optical data storage. |
Technology Research News September 22, 2004 |
Microscope Etches Ultrathin Lines Researchers have shown that it is possible to match electron beam resolution for organic materials using an ultraviolet laser shown through a near-field optical microscope. |
IEEE Spectrum February 2012 Rachel Courtland |
Self-Assembly Takes Shape Researchers exploit new ways to make ICs and hard disks pull themselves together |
Chemistry World September 20, 2012 Hayley Birch |
Lift off for nanoscale printing A new printing technique developed by US scientists allows them to transfer a pattern with nanoscale features from a stamp onto a surface, achieving surprisingly sharp results. The technique could help bring down the cost of high resolution lithography. |
Technology Research News July 27, 2005 Eric Smalley |
Quantum crypto scheme doubly fast Researchers have found a way to double the speed of information transfer over quantum cryptography systems. |
Industrial Physicist Jennifer Ouellette |
Quantum Key Distribution Several companies have focused on bringing one aspect of quantum communications to market, quantum key distribution, used to exchange secret keys that protect data during transmission. |
IEEE Spectrum August 2007 Saswato R. Das |
Scheme for a Single-Photon Transistor Researchers have taken a big step toward building a really fast computer that uses light rather than electricity to perform calculations. |
IEEE Spectrum December 2008 Saswato R. Das |
Physicists Invent a Chip That Stores a Photon's Quantum State A step toward the "quantum repeaters" needed to make long-distance quantum-cryptography networks |
Technology Research News May 4, 2005 |
Noisy Snapshots Show Quantum Weirdness Researchers have devised a relatively simple way to detect a pair of entangled, or linked atoms. The detection ability advances quantum computer and quantum communications research. |
Technology Research News December 1, 2004 |
Demo Advances Quantum Networking Researchers have transferred information stored in the properties of a cloud of rubidium atoms to the properties of a single photon. The ability to transfer information from atoms to photons is needed for quantum computers. |
IEEE Spectrum April 2009 Bill Arnold |
Shrinking Possibilities Lithography will need multiple strategies to keep up with the evolution of memory and logic |
Technology Research News June 2, 2004 Eric Smalley |
Atom-Photon Link Demoed Getting atoms and photons to exchange information is crucial for many quantum computer designs. The first verified atom-photon entanglement shows that it's not so hard to do, as long as you can accept a low success rate. |
Popular Mechanics August 26, 2008 |
Lasers Could Send World's Most Secure Messages Through Space Scientists at an Italian observatory this year succeeded in firing lasers at the mirror-covered Ajisai Japanese satellite, proving that a sequence of photons can travel great distances through space. |
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. |
IEEE Spectrum August 2006 Alexander Hellemans |
Engineering Warms To Frozen Light Separate groups in the U.S. and Europe say that they have built and successfully tested more compact, rugged, and efficient means of delaying light pulses. Their work may clear the way for applications in optical switching and quantum communications. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2010 |
Rad-Hard Semiconductors That Resist Space Radiation in Space Electronics Offered by Rochester Rochester Electronics is expanding its inventory and manufacturing capabilities for space-qualified semiconductors that resist the effects of space radiation. |
National Defense May 2012 Eric Beidel |
Air Force Seeks Impossible-to-Intercept Communications The Air Force has enlisted a group of researchers to create quantum memories based on the interaction between light and matter that would result in a new form of encryption that some experts have called "perfect." |
Technology Research News December 1, 2004 Eric Smalley |
Pure Silicon Laser Debuts Researchers have made a prototype laser from silicon. The laser is tunable, meaning it can lase in a range of wavelengths, or colors, and it works at room temperature. |
Technology Research News February 11, 2004 Eric Smalley |
Light-storing chip charted Storing light, even briefly, was considered impossible until recently. Since scientists have proved it could be done, they've been finding different ways of accomplishing the feat. A proposal for slowing and stopping light in photonic crystal promises to bring these experiments to the chip level. |
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 August 13, 2014 Andy Extance |
Photon pinball identifies chemicals from afar US scientists have pushed the range at which chemicals can be remotely identified beyond a kilometer by turning the samples themselves into lasers. |
Scientific American August 2007 JR Minkel |
The Gedanken Experimenter In putting teleportation, entanglement and other quantum oddities to the test, physicist Anton Zeilinger hopes to find out just how unreal quantum reality can get. |
Technology Research News September 24, 2003 Eric Smalley |
Laser made from single atom The simplest possible laser -- a single atom -- has been on the drawing board for decades. Researchers have finally achieved the extremely precise control needed to make a laser from just one atom. The first demonstration of a single-atom laser showed that it's a different animal -- it produces quantum light. |
Scientific American January 2009 Charles Q. Choi |
Quantum Entanglement Benefits Exist After Links Are Broken A way for quantum benefits to survive after entanglement ends |
InternetNews February 21, 2006 Clint Boulton |
IBM Chip Path to Cheat Moore's Law? In the search for new chip form factors to carry the torch that is Moore's Law, IBM researchers this week said they have found a way to build smaller chip circuits. |