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Single-Photon Sources for Optical Communications

A research team at the University of Bristol in the UK has discovered single-photon sources, which will help secure visual communications known as ‘quantum cryptography’.

22 Mar 2011

NSG Precision Cells Manufactures Custom Flow Cells

NSG Precision Cells has been manufacturing flow cells for flow cytometry, HPLC, life sciences, etc. for over 50 years.

5 Mar 2011

Performance Comparison of Implen's NanoPhotometer Pearl and Thermo Fisher's NanoDrop 2000c

Spectrophotometers allow for quantification of nucleic acid and protein samples based on absorbance at 260nm and 280nm, respectively.

4 Mar 2011

Research Team Builds Silicon Optical Chips Using Nanofabrication Tools

In an effort to make it easier to build inexpensive, next-generation silicon-based electro-optical chips, which allow computers to move information with light and electricity, a University of Washington photonics professor, Dr. Michael Hochberg and his research team are developing design tools and using commercial nanofabrication tools.

4 Mar 2011

KIT to Submit Proposals for Elementary Particle and Astroparticle Physics

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) will go into the final round of the Excellence Initiative II with three new and three follow-up proposals.

4 Mar 2011

JQI Scientists' Spin-Orbit Coupling Technique Has Potential Applications in Quantum Computing

Physicists at the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI), a collaboration of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Maryland-College Park, have for the first time caused a gas of atoms to exhibit an important quantum phenomenon known as spin-orbit coupling.

From National Institute of Standards and Tech (NIST) 4 Mar 2011

ASU Secures $1 Million Grant for Developing New 3D Imaging Microscope

The W. M. Keck Foundation has awarded Arizona State University a $1 million grant to the team of scientists led by Deirdre Meldrum at the Biodesign Institute.

From Arizona State University 4 Mar 2011

Researchers Develop Gold-Coated SERS Nanosubstrates for Medical Diagnostics

Gold-coated substrates of gallium nitride with specifically formed surface, developed by researchers from the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Institute of High Pressure Physics of the PAS display worldwide unique properties.

3 Mar 2011

MIT Proposes New Quantum Experiment to Perform Intractable Calculations

Quantum computers are computers that exploit the weird properties of matter at extremely small scales.

From Massachusetts Institute of Technology 3 Mar 2011

D2S Provides New Option for NuFlare's EBM-7000 Mask Writing System

Fellow eBeam Initiative members D2S™, an emerging supplier of computational design platforms, and NuFlare Technology, Inc., a world leader in electron beam mask writing systems, today announced a partnership to pro...

2 Mar 2011