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REDFINCH Consortium Detects Gas with Light, Sound

Photonics Media   -   Scientific News Websites

Events such as the Port of Rizhao gas plant explosion in China that killed 173 people and injured hundreds of others in 2015; the explosion at the U.S.’s third largest refinery in Texas City, Texas, in 2005; and the Buncefield oil storage explosio...

Nov 26, 2018

Quantum computing at scale: Scientists achieve compact, sensitive qubit readout

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Professor Michelle Simmons' team at UNSW Sydney has demonstrated a compact sensor for accessing information stored in the electrons of individual atoms—a breakthrough that brings us one step closer to scalable quantum computing in silicon.

Nov 26, 2018

Racing electrons under control: Physicists precisely control electrons on a time scale of under one femtosecond

ScienceDaily   -   General News Websites

The advantage is that electromagnetic light waves oscillate at petaherz frequency. This means that computers in the future could operate at speeds a million times faster than those of today. Scientists have now come one step closer to achieving th...

Nov 26, 2018

Simulations suggest graphene can stretch to be a tunable ion filter

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Researchers have conducted simulations suggesting that graphene, in addition to its many other useful features, can be modified with special pores to act as a tunable filter or strainer for ions (charged atoms) in a liquid.

Nov 26, 2018

Quantum computing at scale: Scientists achieve compact, sensitive qubit readout

ScienceDaily   -   General News Websites

Researchers have overcome another critical technical hurdle for building a silicon-based quantum computer.

Nov 26, 2018

Researchers Customize Broadband Light Sources Using a Photonic Chip and AI

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Researchers from Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS) and the University of Sussex have collaborated to create an optical device that uses AI to control the properties of light. Using an actively controlled photonic chip, the res...

Nov 26, 2018

Simulations suggest graphene can stretch to be a tunable ion filter

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Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have conducted simulations suggesting that graphene, in addition to its many other useful features, can be modified with special pores to act as a tunable filter or strainer ...

Nov 26, 2018

Simulations suggest graphene can stretch to be a tunable ion filter

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Researchers have conducted simulations suggesting that graphene, in addition to its many other useful features, can be modified with special pores to act as a tunable filter or strainer for ions (charged atoms) in a liquid.

Nov 26, 2018

A starch and graphene hydrogel geared towards electrodes for brain implants

Nanowerk   -   Nanotechnology Websites

Researchers have created hydrogels with electrical and antibacterial properties suitable for neural interfaces.

Nov 26, 2018

Manufacturing open-mesoporous carbon nanofibers for flexible and wearable power sources

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With the recently increasing development of lightweight, portable, flexible and wearable electronics for health and biomedical devices, there is an urgent need to explore new power sources with higher flexibility and human/tissue-adaptability. Now...

Nov 26, 2018

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