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TNT 2012 Will Be Sponsored by European Physical Society

The 13th edition of the Trends in Nanotechnology International Conference (TNT 2012) to be held from the 10th until the 14th of September 2012 will be sponsored by the European Physical Society (EPS).

29 May 2012

Volkswagen Foundation Provides €550,000 Grant for Project on Quantum Computers

The Volkswagen Foundation, in continuation of its support to the joint materials science project undertaken by the Universities of Osnabrück and Mainz, has allocated €550,000 to be disbursed over a period of three years.

21 May 2012

Photons Pave the Way for Advances in Quantum Computing

Quantum physics holds the hope for computers with better speed and greater capabilities. The current limitation in the development of quantum computing is the need for quantum equivalents of logical gates.

21 May 2012

New Study Helps Better Understand Correlated Electron Dynamics

Kansas State University scientists and an international team of researchers are now able to observe double ionization events at attosecond timescale, thus paving the way to better understand the interactions between light and matter.

17 May 2012

Researchers Develop New Metamaterial Using Aluminum-Doped Zinc Oxide

Purdue University researchers have discovered a way to synthesize metamaterials without using conventional gold or silver, which are expensive and incompatible with semiconductor production processes.

17 May 2012

Researchers Measure Quantum Phase of Electrons

Researchers at the Vienna University of Technology are now able to study an electron’s removal from an atom by a powerful laser beam with a time resolution of below 10 as.

16 May 2012

Quantum Effects Increase with Temperature in Water Ice

In a paper, ‘Anomalous Nuclear Quantum Effects in Ice,’ reported in the Physical Review Letters journal, a team of scientists from the Stony Brook University Department of Physics & Astronomy and the Department of Condensed Matter Physics at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM) has for the first time explained about a mystifying water anomaly in ice.

11 May 2012