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Shrink to Market Quantum Dot Solar Concentrator Technologies Under PowerSkin Brand

Shrink Nanotechnologies, Inc. (“Shrink”), an innovative nanotechnology company developing products and licensing opportunities in the solar energy production, medical diagnostics and sensors and biotechnology research and development tools businesses, announced today that it has received notification that it has purchased the PowerSkin™ trademarks from the bankruptcy estate associated with the Millennium Cell.

4 May 2010

NIST's New Dimmer Switch Can Speed Up Quantum Computer Development

Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed the first "dimmer switch" for a superconducting circuit linking a quantum bit (qubit) and a quantum bus—promising technologies for storing and transporting information in future quantum computers.

29 Apr 2010

New Research on Photons Leads to More Efficient Quantum Computing

A team from Cardiff University's School of Physics and Astronomy fired light particles, or photons, into a tiny tower of semi-conducting material.

20 Apr 2010

Newly Developed Single Photon Detector Improves Optical Power Measurement

Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed the world's most efficient single photon detector, which is able to count individual particles of light traveling through fiber optic cables with roughly 99 percent efficiency.

16 Apr 2010

Researchers Use Quantum-Dot Lasers to Generate Tunable Wavelengths

Researchers at the Technische Universität Darmstadt have found a new method for generating tunable wavelengths, as well as more easily switching back and forth between two wavelengths, employing quantum-dot lasers. Prospective application fields are biomedicine and nanosurgery.

15 Apr 2010

ICFO Researchers Explain How Disorder Can Lead To New Quantum States of Matter

Researchers from the Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO, Barcelona) and the Institute of Optics (IO, Palaiseau) describe in Nature Physics the new trends in research on disordered systems using ultracold gases that could have important consequences both for understanding complex physics processes and for building future quantum simulators and computers.

8 Apr 2010

Hague’s Subsidiary Announces Incentive Pricing for Tetrapod Quantum Dots

Solterra Renewable Technologies, Inc., a solar technology and quantum dot manufacturing company (and a wholly owned subsidiary of Hague Corp. (OTC Bulletin Board: HGUE)) announced today that only 18 months after licensing what has been characterized as a disruptive technology, they will be offering incentive pricing on orders for research quantities of its high purity, uniform, tetrapod quantum dots from the life sciences, academic, and other industrial research and development (R&D) communities.

8 Apr 2010