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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

MEMSCAP’s Electrostatic Variable Optical Attenuator Completes Telcordia Qualification

MEMSCAP, a company specializing in MEMS-based solutions, announced that the company’s high voltage electrostatic MEMS variable optical attenuator has successfully completed Telcordia qualification by meeting all mechanical, environmental and operational stress tests described in GR-1221 and GR-1209 standards for passive optical components.

From MEMSCAP S.A. 21 Apr 2012

Researchers Try to Solve Equations for Turbulence on Quantum Computers

A team of researchers led by Professor Peyman Givi from the University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) is involved in the development of quantum-computing algorithms to simulate turbulent combustion in a better way for aerospace applications.

20 Apr 2012

Phase-Slip Qubit Opens Up New Opportunities in Superconducting Electronics

A team of researchers from the NEC Smart Energy Research Laboratories and RIKEN Advanced Science Institute has experimentally demonstrated the existence of a subtle phenomenon known as coherent quantum phase slip (CQPS) for the first time using ‘phase-slip qubit,’ a new kind of qubit developed by the team.

20 Apr 2012

Study Provides New Insights into Quantum Levitation

Over 50 years ago, Hendrik Casimir, a Dutch theoretical physicist, determined that two parallel mirrors would attract each other when placed in a vacuum. The energy of virtual particles that flit into and out of existence generates this enigmatic force, as explained by quantum theory.

20 Apr 2012