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IBM Exec on Intel Chipmaking Collab: "Choose Your Strength"

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Intel and IBM—two of the titans of the U.S. semiconductor industry over the last 40 years—have joined forces to advance next-generation logic and packaging technologies. This new partnership comes as a bit of a surprise to anyone who has observed...

Apr 1, 2021

Quantum computer has the edge for NP verification – Physics World

Physics World   -   Nanotechnology Websites

New protocol for verifying solutions to NP-complete problems outperforms known classical methods The post Quantum computer has the edge for NP verification appeared first on Physics World.

Apr 1, 2021

2D materials for conducting hole currents from grain boundaries in perovskite solar cells

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Grain boundaries (GBs) in PSCs have been found to be detrimental to the photovoltaic performance of the devices. Numerous papers reported that the defects in perovskite GBs should be passivated by suitable materials, such as quaternary ammonium ha...

Apr 1, 2021

Spin-to-charge conversion achieves 95% overall qubit readout fidelity

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A team led by Professor Du Jiangfeng and Professor Wang Ya from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) Key Laboratory of Microscale Magnetic Resonance of the University of Science and Technology of China put forward an innovative spin-to-charge con...

Apr 1, 2021

Search for strange Skyrmion phenomenon fails but finds stranger magnetic beaded necklace

ScienceDaily   -   General News Websites

Physicists on the hunt for a rarely seen magnetic spin texture have discovered another object that bears its hallmarks, hidden in the structure of ultra-thin magnetic films, that they have called an incommensurate spin crystal.

Apr 1, 2021

Researchers develop third and final 'made-to-order' nanotube synthesis technique

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The current method of manufacturing carbon nanotubes—in essence rolled up sheets of graphene—is unable to allow complete control over their diameter, length and type. This problem has recently been solved for two of the three different types of na...

Apr 1, 2021

3D design leads to first stable and strong self-assembling 1D nanographene wires

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Nanographene is flexible, yet stronger than steel. With unique physical and electronic properties, the material consists of carbon molecules only one atom thick arranged in a honeycomb shape. Still early in technological development, current fabri...

Apr 1, 2021

Search for skyrmion phenomenon finds even stranger magnetic beaded necklace

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Physicists on the hunt for a rarely seen magnetic spin texture have discovered another object that bears its hallmarks, hidden in the structure of ultra-thin magnetic films, that they have called an incommensurate spin crystal.

Apr 1, 2021

From dinner to sustainable electronics, the surprising versatility of crabs

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As the worldwide demand for electronic devices continues to grow, so too does the strain on the finite resources used in their production, such as metals and fossil fuels. In an effort to provide renewable alternatives, researchers from Osaka Univ...

Apr 1, 2021

Researchers pave the way for calculating circular dichroism spectra more efficiently

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Members of the CEST group published a recent paper introducing a novel method to calculate CD spectra in the open source GPAW code. The publication shows that the implemented approach is more efficient than the commonly used linear-response method...

Apr 1, 2021

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