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Chemistry World September 18, 2007 Simon Hadlington |
Researchers See Electrons in a Spin Scientists in the US have successfully measured the spin polarisation state of single atoms adsorbed to a surface, bringing the prospect of quantum computing and spin-based electronics (spintronics) a step closer. |
Technology Research News February 23, 2005 |
Light writes data in electrons Researchers developed a spin memory device that writes data as electron spins using lasers, stores the electrons in quantum dots, and reads spin information by applying a voltage to the quantum dots to generate photons. |
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. |
Chemistry World October 27, 2010 Laura Howes |
Single molecule magnets line up Italian researchers claim that they've bound a single molecule magnet to a gold surface, whilst retaining the magnet's properties. |
Technology Research News December 15, 2004 |
Scheme Simplifies Quantum Chips Researchers have brought practical quantum computers a step closer by proposing a type of quantum bit that is relatively easy to build. |
Technology Research News January 14, 2004 |
Atoms make quantum coprocessor Researchers from Brussels Free University in Belgium (ULB) and the Niels Bohr Institute in Denmark have shown that the collective spin of clouds of atoms can be used to compute. |
Technology Research News August 11, 2004 |
Single gold atoms altered The gold atom, positioned on an ultrathin film of sodium chloride, remained stable during the operation, despite the change in charge. |
Technology Research News December 3, 2003 |
Spin material handles heat Researchers from the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden have doped, or mixed the semiconductor zinc oxide with the metal manganese to make a ferromagnetic semiconductor material that retains its magnetic properties at temperatures as high as 177 degrees Celsius. |
Technology Research News July 28, 2004 |
Particle chains make quantum wires The method is a step toward building quantum computers, which have the potential to solve certain types of very large problems. |
Technology Research News September 10, 2003 Eric Smalley |
Electron teams make bigger qubits Making quantum computers from electronic chips rather than cumbersome laboratory equipment requires control over individual electrons. A scheme that has a string of electrons acting as one could ease the task by expanding the target to a whopping 250 millionths of a millimeter. |
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. |
The Motley Fool September 5, 2007 Jack Uldrich |
IBM Gets Small Two tiny new advances could lead to big things for IBM investors. |
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. |
Chemistry World February 21, 2008 Simon Hadlington |
Taking the Measure of Atomic Friction Scientists in the US and Germany have successfully used an atomic force microscope to determine exactly how much effort is needed to drag a single atom of cobalt across the surface of different metals. |
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 November 5, 2003 |
Electrons spin magnetic fields Spintronics researchers are looking for ways to control and use electron spin. Researchers from Cornell University and Yale University have brought the field a step forward by showing that a flow of electrons that all have the same spin can transfer angular momentum to magnetic material. |
Technology Research News June 1, 2005 |
Magnetic Resonance Goes Nano Researchers have built a nuclear magnetic resonance device that has the potential to overcome the quantum bit limit because it is small enough to fit on a computer chip. |
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. |
IEEE Spectrum September 2007 Joshua J. Romero |
Magnetic Storage Taken to the Atomic Scale International team of scientists learns to read and write data on islands of atoms. |
Technology Research News May 4, 2005 |
Noisy Snapshots Show Quantum Weirdness Researchers have devised a relatively simple way to detect a pair of entangled, or linked atoms. The detection ability advances quantum computer and quantum communications research. |
Technology Research News February 23, 2005 |
Metal atoms make silicon magnetic Devices made from magnetic semiconductors can make use of the spin of the electron in addition to its charge. These spintronics devices are potentially faster and consume less power than today' electronics. |
IEEE Spectrum January 2007 Elizabeth Svoboda |
Fresh Spin On Logic In the last few years, a new type of memory has begun to penetrate the market for nonvolatile data storage. In addition to being much faster, spintronics processors could be much smaller than present-day processors. |
Technology Research News April 7, 2004 Eric Smalley |
Sturdy quantum computing demoed The atomic or subatomic components of prototype quantum computers usually have to be carefully sheltered from the environment, but a method that makes qubits immune to noise shows promise. |
Technology Research News April 21, 2004 |
Magnets Align Nanotubes in Resin Carbon nanotubes have great potential as components of new materials but aligning the tiny tubes can be tricky. Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology and Florida State University have developed a way to orient the nanotubes in a polymer mix using a magnetic field. |
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. |
CIO August 15, 2003 John Edwards |
Spin Control Spintronics might sound like the name of a long-lost '80s pop band, but it's actually a scientific field that may someday lead to more compact and useful mobile devices. |
Technology Research News June 30, 2004 |
Chip protects single atoms Researchers have found a way to closely control the quantum states, or traits, of single atoms trapped in a microchip. The method is a step toward building devices like miniature atomic clocks that are an order of magnitude more accurate than those that exist today. |
Technology Research News July 30, 2003 |
Electricity loosens tiny bits Researchers have found a way to make flipping small bits easier. The electrically-assisted magnetization reversal process weakens the magnetization of a ferromagnetic semiconductor's magnetization by applying a pinpoint electric field, making the magnetization of individual bits easier to flip. |
Chemistry World November 21, 2014 Simon Hadlington |
Magnetic resonance taken to the limit Researchers in the US have taken magnetic resonance imaging to its extreme by developing a technique to detect the spin of a single nucleus. |
IEEE Spectrum February 2013 Rachel Courtland |
Graphene Goes the Distance in Spintronics Experiments push electron-spin signals to record lengths |
Chemistry World October 1, 2014 Philip Ball |
Probing molecules atom by atom A new technique that can 'see' individual spins of electrons and nuclei in single molecules could enable nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy atom by atom. |
IEEE Spectrum November 2010 Bedair et al. |
Spintronic Memories to Revolutionize Data Storage Superdense MRAM chips based on the bizarre property of electron spin could replace all other forms of data storage |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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 July 20, 2012 Simon Hadlington |
New type of chemical bond around dwarf stars The work, led by Trygve Helgaker at the University of Oslo in Norway, not only provides insights into fundamental aspects of electronic interactions with magnetic fields, but also sheds light on the exotic chemistry that exists in stellar environments. |
Technology Research News January 1, 2003 Kimberly Patch |
Aligned fields could speed storage Researchers from three institutes in Germany and Russia have found a material whose electric and magnetic domains line up together. The work could bring together the currently separate fields of magnetic and electronic data storage, which would give both methods more flexibility. |
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. |
Industrial Physicist Aug/Sep 2004 Eric J. Lerner |
News: Plasmon microscopy A new technique allows far-field optical microscopy with resolutions well below the wavelength of light. |
Technology Research News January 29, 2003 Eric Smalley |
Quantum computers go digital One of the challenges of building a quantum computer is reducing errors. Researchers from the University of Wisconsin at Madison have eased the problem with a method that reduces error rates by two orders of magnitude. |
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. |
Technology Research News December 11, 2002 Eric Smalley |
Microscopic mix strengthens magnet Magnets are usually an either-or proposition. They either generate a strong magnetic field or they hold up well in the presence of external magnetic fields. A method that mixes the two types of magnets at the nanoscale could pave the way for smaller electric motors and generators. |
IEEE Spectrum March 2009 Neil Savage |
Spintronic Memristors Researchers have made magnetic devices that act like the recently discovered fourth circuit element |
BusinessWeek March 15, 2004 John Carey |
Physics: "Putting The Weirdness To Work" Scientists say quantum materials will be the basis for amazing devices, but when? |
Chemistry World March 7, 2010 Simon Hadlington |
Solvated electron mystery solved Researchers have answered a riddle that has been puzzling scientists for decades: why is it that electrons in an aqueous environment appear to exist in two distinct states |
Chemistry World November 15, 2006 Michael Gross |
Nanoribbons Put Electrons in a Spin A small ribbon made of the carbon honeycomb pattern found in graphite and nanotubes could display intriguing electronic properties and serve as a material for spin-based electronics (spintronics), researchers have predicted. |
Chemistry World January 20, 2011 Jon Cartwright |
Chemists separate water isomers Chemists in Israel claim to have separated water into its two spin isomers and suggest the outcome could deliver highly sensitive nuclear magnetic resonance experiments. |
Technology Research News March 10, 2004 |
Atom spouts photons on demand California Institute of Technology researchers have fashioned a single atom into a light source that generates single photons on demand. |
Chemistry World July 5, 2011 Mike Brown |
Metallic Pick and Mix with Complexes Scientists in Germany have plucked a metal ion from the middle of a phthalocyanine molecule on a silver surface. The simple method of removal, which employs a scanning tunnelling microscope, could be used to make cheaper molecular storage devices. |