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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. |
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. |
Technology Research News February 23, 2005 |
Metal atoms make silicon magnetic Devices made from magnetic semiconductors can make use of the spin of the electron in addition to its charge. These spintronics devices are potentially faster and consume less power than today' electronics. |
IEEE Spectrum November 2010 Bedair et al. |
Spintronic Memories to Revolutionize Data Storage Superdense MRAM chips based on the bizarre property of electron spin could replace all other forms of data storage |
IEEE Spectrum February 2013 Rachel Courtland |
Graphene Goes the Distance in Spintronics Experiments push electron-spin signals to record lengths |
IEEE Spectrum January 2007 Elizabeth Svoboda |
Fresh Spin On Logic In the last few years, a new type of memory has begun to penetrate the market for nonvolatile data storage. In addition to being much faster, spintronics processors could be much smaller than present-day processors. |
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. |
Technology Research News November 5, 2003 |
Electrons spin magnetic fields Spintronics researchers are looking for ways to control and use electron spin. Researchers from Cornell University and Yale University have brought the field a step forward by showing that a flow of electrons that all have the same spin can transfer angular momentum to magnetic material. |
Technology Research News March 9, 2005 |
Avalanches up Disk Storage Researchers have constructed a spin-valve transistor that is more sensitive to microscopic magnetic fields than the devices that read today's commercial hard drives. |
Chemistry World September 18, 2007 Simon Hadlington |
Researchers See Electrons in a Spin Scientists in the US have successfully measured the spin polarisation state of single atoms adsorbed to a surface, bringing the prospect of quantum computing and spin-based electronics (spintronics) a step closer. |
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. |
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 |
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 December 15, 2004 |
Scheme Simplifies Quantum Chips Researchers have brought practical quantum computers a step closer by proposing a type of quantum bit that is relatively easy to build. |
Technology Research News August 11, 2004 |
Single gold atoms altered The gold atom, positioned on an ultrathin film of sodium chloride, remained stable during the operation, despite the change in charge. |
Technology Research News May 18, 2005 Eric Smalley |
Nanotube Memory Scheme is Magnetic Researchers have designed a type of nanotube flash memory that has a potential capacity of 40 gigabits per square centimeter and 1,000 terabits per cubic centimeter. |
Industrial Physicist Aug/Sep 2003 Eric J. Lerner |
Briefs A magnetic microscope for the brain... Spin and energy -- free?... Finest nanowire arrays... Solar-cell burnout... etc. |
IEEE Spectrum March 2009 Neil Savage |
Spintronic Memristors Researchers have made magnetic devices that act like the recently discovered fourth circuit element |
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. |
Technology Research News October 8, 2003 Eric Smalley |
Magnetic memory makes logic Magnetic memory will soon put an end to the daily annoyance of waiting while your computer boots up from its hard disk. These chips that hold data when the power is off might also be capable of a lot more. Adding a few extra wires to each memory cell could turn the chips into efficient computer processors. |
Chemistry World October 28, 2014 Simon Hadlington |
Molecular magnet goes ultracool Researchers have succeeded in cooling a molecular magnet to below 1K, the first time this has been achieved with a nanomagnet. |
Technology Research News June 1, 2005 |
Magnetic Resonance Goes Nano Researchers have built a nuclear magnetic resonance device that has the potential to overcome the quantum bit limit because it is small enough to fit on a computer chip. |
Technology Research News November 17, 2004 |
Atom Flip Energy Measured Scientists have measured the energy required to flip the magnetic orientation, or spin of a single atom trapped on a surface. |
Industrial Physicist Eric J. Lerner |
News Briefs Detecting a Single Spin... Handheld Chem Lab... Superprisms... Growing Nanotrees... |
Chemistry World July 20, 2012 Simon Hadlington |
New type of chemical bond around dwarf stars The work, led by Trygve Helgaker at the University of Oslo in Norway, not only provides insights into fundamental aspects of electronic interactions with magnetic fields, but also sheds light on the exotic chemistry that exists in stellar environments. |
Chemistry World October 10, 2014 Laura Fisher |
Dangling bonds induce ferromagnetism in graphitic carbon nitride Researchers have achieved ferromagnetism in graphitic carbon nitride, g-C 3N 4, by introducing hydrogen dangling bonds into its two-dimensional structure, making the material suitable for spintronic devices. |
Chemistry World January 22, 2015 Simon Hadlington |
Diamond sensor atom scale imaging proposed Researchers in the US have devised a novel strategy for mapping multiple nuclear spins in a single molecule using quantum sensors in diamond. |
Industrial Physicist Dec 2003/Jan 2004 Eric J. Lerner |
Briefs Infrared tissue scans... Better electronic paper... Rapid manufacturing... Flipping storage fields |
Technology Research News March 10, 2004 Eric Smalley |
X-shape pulses hold together A team of researchers in Italy and Lithuanian has found that under certain conditions a pulse of light can form an X shape that does not spread out. |
Chemistry World August 6, 2015 Matthew Gunther |
Buckyballs prove to be a magnetic proposition for copper Scientists from the UK, US and Switzerland has now discovered copper and manganese do show magnetism at room temperature if they are layered with buckminsterfullerene. |
CIO August 15, 2003 John Edwards |
Spin Control Spintronics might sound like the name of a long-lost '80s pop band, but it's actually a scientific field that may someday lead to more compact and useful mobile devices. |
Chemistry World August 30, 2006 Tom Westgate |
Lasers Shed Light on Magnetic Resonance A new way of measuring nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) in liquid samples could have implications across spectroscopy and imaging, report researchers. |
IEEE Spectrum November 2006 Stephen Cass |
Air Power Wish you didn't have to plug in your laptop and cellphone? A team of researchers from MIT may have just the thing for you. |
Chemistry World November 21, 2014 Simon Hadlington |
Magnetic resonance taken to the limit Researchers in the US have taken magnetic resonance imaging to its extreme by developing a technique to detect the spin of a single nucleus. |
Technology Research News January 14, 2004 |
Atoms make quantum coprocessor Researchers from Brussels Free University in Belgium (ULB) and the Niels Bohr Institute in Denmark have shown that the collective spin of clouds of atoms can be used to compute. |
Chemistry World October 1, 2014 Philip Ball |
Probing molecules atom by atom A new technique that can 'see' individual spins of electrons and nuclei in single molecules could enable nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy atom by atom. |
Chemistry World January 20, 2011 Jon Cartwright |
Chemists separate water isomers Chemists in Israel claim to have separated water into its two spin isomers and suggest the outcome could deliver highly sensitive nuclear magnetic resonance experiments. |
Science News June 30, 2001 |
TimeLine: June 27, 1931 Larger mercury vapor electric generating unit being built... Electron waves will reveal struture of crystals... Alpha particle tetrahedrons build up atom nucleus... |
Chemistry World April 7, 2011 |
Molecular Fridge Can Reach Millikelvin Scientists have laid the foundations for a high-performance 'molecular fridge' capable of reaching temperatures within a few thousandths of a degree of absolute zero with a high degree of efficiency. |