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Technology Research News August 25, 2004 |
Photosynthesis Drives Solar Cell Researchers have mixed biology and electronics in solar cells that use photosynthetic spinach leaf molecules or photosynthetic bacteria to convert light to electricity. |
Chemistry World January 21, 2009 Alexander Hellemans |
Quantum shuttling boost for organic solar cells Organic polymers can use a quantum effect to rapidly shuttle light energy along their chains, even at room temperature. |
Science News July 4, 2009 |
Letters Readers offer opinions on astronomers' hours and quantum plant activity |
Chemistry World February 13, 2015 Tim Wogan |
GM bacteria convert solar energy to liquid fuels A new scheme for storing the energy from photovoltaic cells, in which genetically modified bacteria reduce carbon dioxide to liquid fuels with hydrogen from water-splitting, has been proposed and partially demonstrated. |
National Defense March 2012 Eric Beidel |
Scientists Make Quantum Leap in Solar Power In its quest for alternative sources of power, the military has been turning to solar panels. The services have been trying them out on installations and on the backs of troops. |
Technology Research News May 21, 2003 |
Big qubits linked over distance Researchers working on quantum computing managed to entangle a pair of large quantum bits that were spaced nearly a millimeter apart. |
IEEE Spectrum July 2007 Suhas Sreedhar |
Plastic Solar Cells Get a Boost by Doubling Up Scientists in Korea and California have invented a new way of boosting the efficiency of cheap plastic solar cells, making them more competitive with traditional silicon solar cells. The key is to make the solar cells in pairs. |
Chemistry World November 19, 2013 Jessica Brand |
From seaweed to solar cells After years of using platinum, scientists suggest they could one day use extracts from marine plants to replace it in solar cells. |
Chemistry World June 17, 2010 Hayley Birch |
Keeping the heat up for super-efficient solar cells US scientists have found a way to siphon off the 'hot' electrons that are responsible for much of the energy lost in current solar cells. |
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. |
National Defense August 2008 Grace V. Jean |
Harnessing the Sun's Energy Through Transparent Photovoltaics Researchers here have developed a small transparent solar cell prototype that may one day capture sunlight streaming in through a window and produce enough electricity to power homes and office buildings. |
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. |
Technology Research News August 25, 2004 Eric Smalley |
Five Photons Linked Researchers have entangled five photons - a key step in quantum computing which would make it possible to check computations for errors and teleport quantum information within and between computers. |
Technology Research News March 12, 2003 Eric Smalley |
Quantum chips advance Researchers have entangled a pair of electronic qubits in an integrated circuit. The work is a milestone on the road to chip-based, mind-bogglingly fast quantum computers. |
Chemistry World September 3, 2014 Philip Ball |
Does life play dice? Those two attention-grabbers, physics and biology, are appropriating what essentially belongs to chemistry. All of the facets of quantum biology that are so far reasonably established, or at least well grounded in experiment and theory, are chemical ones. |
Chemistry World June 20, 2013 Jim Al-Khalili |
Change: the only constant Today, there is much interest in a wide range of biological phenomena that may have a quantum origin, from our sense of smell to photosynthesis and mutations in DNA. |
Chemistry World September 25, 2012 Najafpour et al. |
Running on Sun We imagine a future where a substantial portion of our energy is met by solar fuels, leaving the task of food production to natural photosynthesis. This comes with the caveat that plants, algae and cyanobacteria be used to produce high value carbon compounds as well as biofuels |
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 |
Industrial Physicist Feb/Mar 2003 Jennifer Oullette |
Quantum dots for sale Artificial atoms illluminate biotechnology and other fields |
Scientific American March 6, 2006 Graham P. Collins |
Ion Power In their quest to build a computer that would take advantage of quantum mechanics, physicists are pursuing a number of disparate technologies. Teams working with trapped atomic ions have demonstrated several landmark feats that the other approaches will be hard-pressed to match. |
BusinessWeek September 6, 2004 Otis Port |
Another Dawn For Solar Power Tech breakthroughs and high energy prices are rekindling the industry. |
Chemistry World July 23, 2014 Jonathan Prance |
The quantum age In this entertaining and accessible book, Brian Clegg explains the weirdness of quantum mechanics through the effects it has on the world around us and the technologies we use |
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 |
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 March 12, 2003 Kimberly Patch |
Cheap solar power on deck Researchers from the University of California at Santa Barbara have come up with a new type of solar cell that may be much less expensive to manufacture than today's solar cells and can be improved to be nearly as efficient. |
IEEE Spectrum March 2011 Saswato R. Das |
A Crowd of Quantum Entanglements Phosphorus-in-silicon system could lead to quantum computers |
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. |
The Motley Fool August 5, 2010 Eric Wesoff |
Can a Disruptive PV Technology Topple First Solar? We list a few candidates for a "new black swan improbable pyro-nano-quantum-thingamajig technology" to displace thin-film PV. |
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. |
National Defense March 2005 Joe Pappalardo |
Researchers Cast Wary Eye On Atomic-Level Computing Experts point out that quantum computers could execute calculations several millions of times faster than conventional systems, but that the technology still is years away from becoming truly functional. |
Technology Research News December 11, 2002 Eric Smalley |
Design links quantum bits Realizing the potential of phenomenally fast quantum computers means having to link thousands of quantum bits, which are the transistors of such computers. So far researchers have been able to connect only a few. A scheme for linking many tiny superconducting loops may pull it all together. |
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 September 10, 2003 |
Quantum computing has limits Researchers from the University of Arkansas and Texas A&M University have shown that quantum computers, while theoretically useful for very large problems, are likely to always need very large amounts of power. |
CIO March 15, 2002 John Edwards |
Quantum Leap A quantum physics breakthrough could turn pipe dreams, such as ultra-high-speed quantum computers and teleportation, into real-world technologies... |
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. |
IEEE Spectrum January 2010 Erico Guizzo |
Loser: D-Wave Does Not Quantum Compute D-Wave Systems' quantum computers look to be bigger, costlier, and slower than conventional ones |
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. |
The Motley Fool May 26, 2006 Jack Uldrich |
Harris & Harris Seeks Some Sun and Surf If you're looking for a little sun (in the form of solar power) and fun (in the form of quantum computing), you might want to consider an investment in Harris & Harris. |
IEEE Spectrum June 2012 Dave Levitan |
The Solar Efficiency Gap Companies continue to push solar-cell efficiency records toward theoretical limits. Are actual production-line solar panels keeping up? |
Chemistry World July 12, 2011 Kate McAlpine |
Bit Part for Diethylfluoromalonate in Reaction Model A quantum simulation has successfully described the progression of a chemical reaction for the first time. |
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. |
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 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. |
National Defense April 2011 Eric Beidel |
Pentagon Wants Off-the-Charts Computing Speeds The Defense Department awarded researchers based at the University of Pittsburgh a five-year, $7.5 million grant to build the foundation for a quantum supercomputer, a machine that can harness more power than all of the world's current computers combined. |
Chemistry World October 9, 2013 Emma Stoye |
Computational chemists take Nobel prize The 2013 Nobel prize in chemistry has been awarded to Martin Karplus of Harvard University, US, Michael Levitt of Stanford University, US, and Arieh Warshel of the University of Southern California, US, for "the development of multi-scale models for complex chemical systems." |
Chemistry World November 18, 2014 Philip Ball |
The quantum moment: how Planck, Bohr, Einstein, and Heisenberg taught us to love uncertainty This book explores the cultural reception of quantum physics since its earliest days, when Planck, Einstein, Bohr, Heisenberg and others grappled with the bizarre findings of their research, telling them how the world is structured. |
Scientific American October 17, 2005 Graham P. Collins |
Quantum Bug Physicists must overcome a fundamental obstacle before quantum computers can become a practical reality: decoherence, which is the loss of the very quantum properties that such computers would rely on. |
Chemistry World October 23, 2013 |
Models of success The 2013 Nobel prize in chemistry was awarded to three computational pioneers who combined quantum and classical mechanics. Emma Stoye learns about the latest laureates |
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. |
Chemistry World July 1, 2013 Laura Howes |
Quantum tunnelling in space Interstellar dust clouds might be host to more chemistry than previously imagined. |