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IEEE Spectrum February 2012 Sung & Lee	Graphene: The Ultimate Switch Graphene could replace the transistor with switches that steer electrons just like beams of light
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 October 2005 Paniccia & Koehl	The Silicon Solution In the future, ordinary silicon chips will move data using light rather than electrons, unleashing nearly limitless bandwidth and revolutionizing computing
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 April 2008 Neil Savage	Plasmonic Imager Could Slim Down Spy Satellites But even its developers are far from knowing if it will work.
IEEE Spectrum June 2008 Monica Heger	First Exciton Integrated Circuit Built Exciton integrated circuits would negate the need to convert optical data to electrons and back again
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.
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.
Technology Research News February 11, 2004	Electricity teleportation devised Researchers from Leiden University in the Netherlands have devised a way to teleport electricity.
Chemistry World July 30, 2009 Phillip Broadwith	Smoothing out plasmonic surfaces US scientists have found a simple way to make smooth metal films with nano-scale patterns in a variety of shapes that could one day be used in plasmonic devices that manipulate electromagnetic waves.
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 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 June 2012 Michael Brooks	Quantum Cash and the End of Counterfeiting Physicists say they can make money that can't be copied -- at least in theory
IEEE Spectrum December 2007 Joshua J Romero	Japanese Engineers Turn High-k Dielectric Transistor Problem on Its Head One gate metal and two high-k dielectrics could mean a cheaper and easier 45-nanometer CMOS manufacturing process for transistors.
IEEE Spectrum June 2008 Saswato R. Das	Tabletop EUV Light Source South Korean research team demonstrates an economical way to generate EUV light using femtosecond laser pulses.
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.
IEEE Spectrum May 2010 Neil Savage	The Laser at 50 It's the golden anniversary of this fundamental technology
Technology Research News June 15, 2005	Quantum Crypto Boosted to 2 GHz Researchers have upped the speed of their quantum key exchange system to 2 gigahertz over several kilometers of optical telecommunications fiber.
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.
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.
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 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.
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 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.
Technology Research News January 26, 2005	The How It Works Files Nanotechnology: The laws of physics behave differently at very small scales. At the nanoscale, electrons travel more quickly through wires, transistors can mete out electrons one at a time, objects stick to each other, and light can bend matter.
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 September 8, 2004 Eric Smalley	Polymer Serves up Single Photons Researchers have made a room-temperature, single-photon source using polymer molecules that could be used in quantum cryptography devices and eventually for quantum computing
Chemistry World April 7, 2011 Andy Extance	Surface plasmons create vivid holograms Plasmons are "quasiparticles" that are observed when electrons in a metal collectively oscillate at light wave frequency.
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
Technology Research News August 13, 2003 Eric Smalley	Quantum computer keeps it simple Controlling fleeting quantum particles usually requires making extraordinarily precise devices. A proposal that calls for chaperoning pairs of particles and getting all of the particles in a quantum computer to sing the same tune could ease this burden.
Chemistry World December 11, 2013 Jon Cartwright	Vibrations couple light to graphene Two independent groups have shown that light can be effectively turned into surface plasmons in graphene if the carbon sheet is made to vibrate.
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.
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 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.
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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
IEEE Spectrum November 2006 Monte Ross	The New Search for E.T. If extraterrestrials are trying to communicate with us, they're probably using lasers, not radio waves.
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.
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.
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."
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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 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 April 23, 2003 Eric Smalley	Silver bits channel nano light Researchers from the California Institute of Technology and the University of Southern California have found a way to guide near-field light over short distances through channels that are several times narrower than the wavelengths of light.
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.
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.
Chemistry World February 13, 2011 James Urquhart	Guiding electrons through graphene US researchers have created a graphene-based device that guides electrons through the material in the same way an optical fiber guides light, using electrical gates.