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New All-Optical Switch Helps Develop Usable Ultrafast, Low-Energy On-Chip Signal Router

At the Joint Quantum Institute, a research team, comprising Edo Waks and colleagues, has developed an all-optical switch utilizing a quantum dot integrated within a tiny hole-free arcade, which behaves like a resonant cavity.

5 May 2012

Researchers Develop Nano-Photonic Composite Scintillation Radiation Detector

A research team comprising Brent Wagner and Bernd Kahn from the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) has devised a prototype called the nano-photonic composite scintillation detector that integrates rare-earth metals and other elements at the nanoscale for enhanced strength, accuracy and sensitivity to provide improved radiation detection.

3 May 2012

Looking Through the Mirror: Optical Microcavities Show Strong Interaction with Conductive Surface

A team of researchers from Spain have shown that the interactions which occur between charges or magnets and a good electrical conductor can be extended to optical microcavities under external illumination.

1 May 2012

Vistec Provides Variable Shaped Beam Lithography System to ITME

Institute of Electronic Materials Technology (ITME) based in Warsaw has bought the SB251, a variable shaped beam system from Vistec Electron Beam, a provider of electron-beam lithography systems.

30 Apr 2012

Celebration of Construction Milestones for New Synchrotron Facility

Construction of the $912-million National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II) at Brookhaven National Laboratory is more than 70 percent complete – on schedule and on budget.

30 Apr 2012

Carl Zeiss to Provide AIMS EUV Tools to Two SEMATECH EMI Partnership Members

In accordance with their slot assignments, two member companies of the SEMATECH EMI Partnership comprising TSMC, Samsung Electronics, Intel and GLOBALFOUNDRIES have placed orders to buy AIMS EUV tool, an actinic aerial image metrology solution from Carl Zeiss Semiconductor Metrology Systems (SMS) Division.

From Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH 27 Apr 2012

Efficient Manufacturing Process for Quantum Dot Production

Students at the University of Utah have won the first place in the regional CU Cleantech New Venture Challenge for their quantum dot technology. Quantum dots are tiny semiconductor nanocrystals that emit photons when excited.

26 Apr 2012

New Grant to Extend Quantum Applications to Harder Problems and Longer Distances

Professor John Rarity and Dr Ruth Oulton from the University of Bristol’s Centre for Quantum Photonics have received a Future and Emerging Technologies grant worth €2 million from the European Commission and a CHIST-ERA award worth €1.1 million from national funding agencies in Europe.

26 Apr 2012

NAPANIL Project Presents Final Results at Photonics Europe

A European project titled Nanopatterning, Production and Applications based on Nanoimprinting Lithography (NAPANIL) has delivered presentations on its final results at Photonics Europe held from April 16 to 18, 2012 in Brussels.

23 Apr 2012

New Technique to Create Single Photons for Optical Quantum Information Processing

Georgia Tech professor Alex Kuzmich and graduate student Yaroslav Dudin have devised a new faster and more-efficient technique based on a phenomenon called Rydberg blockade to generate single photons that can be utilized to explore the disorder and dynamics in specific physical systems and in optical quantum information processing.

21 Apr 2012

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