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QD Vision Recognized for Commercializing Quantum Dot-Based Products

QD Vision, a company developing optical products for solid state lighting and displays using nanotechnology has been felicitated with the 2011 SEMI Award for North America for its efforts in the integration and production processes towards the commercialization of quantum dot technology.

20 Jan 2012

Researchers Produce Low-Cost Solar Paint Using Semiconducting Nanoparticles

A research team led by Prashant Kamat, who serves as an investigator at the Center for Nano Science and Technology (NDnano) of the University of Notre Dame as well as John A. Zahm Professor of Science in Chemistry and Biochemistry, has utilized quantum dots, which are semiconducting nanoparticles, to develop a low-cost solar paint for generating energy.

23 Dec 2011

Researchers Use Nanophotonics to Capture High-Resolution Optical Images of Live Cells

A research team led by Peidong Yang, a chemist at the Materials Sciences Division of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), has developed a nanowire endoscope by integrating a waveguide of tin oxide nanowire with an optical fiber’s tapered end, paving the way for capturing optical images of the inside of an individual live cell at high resolution or accurately delivering drugs, proteins, genes or other cargo without causing damage to the cell.

From Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 23 Dec 2011

Novel Electronic Quantum Dots Probe Paves Way to Rapidly Test Drug Efficiency

A research team led by Swadeshmukul Santra, an Associate Professor at the University of Central Florida, has developed an electronic quantum dots probe that paves the way for testing the efficiency of new pharmaceuticals rapidly.

21 Dec 2011

Researchers Develop Virtually Noiseless Nanomechanical Microwave Amplifier

A research team at the Low Temperature Laboratory of the Aalto University based in Finland has demonstrated a novel method to detect and amplify weak electromagnetic signals such as microwaves or radio waves almost noiselessly using a nanomechanical oscillator.

17 Dec 2011

Researcher Receives European Research Council Grant for Studying Quantum Field Theory

Tobias J. Osborne, who serves as a Professor of theoretical physics at the Leibniz Universitat Hannover’s Institute for Theoretical Physics and the Cluster of Excellence, Centre for Quantum Engineering and Space-Time Research (QUEST), has received a €1.34 million grant for the coming five years from the European Research Council (ERC) for his project titled ‘Quantum Field Theory, the Variational Principle, and Continuous Matrix Product States’.

13 Dec 2011

Development of Versatile Photonic Chip Helps Realize Optical Quantum Computing

A research team at the Centre for Quantum Photonics of the University of Bristol has developed a versatile optical chip that produces, measures, and controls two important quantum phenomena, mixture and entanglement, paving the way for developing quantum computers.

13 Dec 2011

Nanoscale Glass Fiber Measuring Method for Counting Atoms and Studying Quantum Physics

A research team led by Professor Arno Rauschenbeutel Vienna Center for Quantum Science and Technology, in partnership with the researchers at the Johannes Gutenberg University has developed an ultrasensitive method by controllably coupling single atoms to light within ultra-thin fiber glass having a thickness of 500 nm, paving the way to develop detectors that are capable of sensing ultra-trace amounts of materials.

9 Dec 2011

Combination of Nanophotonics and Plasmonics Can Lead to Novel Quantum Information Systems

Scientists are investigating the possibility of combining two emerging technologies, plasmonics and nanophotonics to create a new quantum information system, which will be much more powerful than computers.

31 Oct 2011

Novel Coating Makes Quantum Dots Suitable for Biomedical Processes

Water insolubility is one of the major disadvantages of quantum dots that make them unsuitable for biological and medical applications.

28 Oct 2011

Quantum Dots News

QD Vision Recognized for Commercializing Quantum Dot-Based Products

Researchers Produce Low-Cost Solar Paint Using Semiconducting Nanoparticles

Researchers Use Nanophotonics to Capture High-Resolution Optical Images of Live Cells

Novel Electronic Quantum Dots Probe Paves Way to Rapidly Test Drug Efficiency

Researchers Develop Virtually Noiseless Nanomechanical Microwave Amplifier

Researcher Receives European Research Council Grant for Studying Quantum Field Theory

Development of Versatile Photonic Chip Helps Realize Optical Quantum Computing

Nanoscale Glass Fiber Measuring Method for Counting Atoms and Studying Quantum Physics

Combination of Nanophotonics and Plasmonics Can Lead to Novel Quantum Information Systems

Novel Coating Makes Quantum Dots Suitable for Biomedical Processes

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