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Research Reveals Diamond Can Store Quantum Data

A research team at the University of California, Santa Barbara, has discovered a method to monitor atoms inside diamond crystals to store data and to act as quantum memory.

30 Mar 2011

Quantum-Dot-Based Nanotechnology Monitors Effects of Stem Cell Therapy in Brain

The April edition of Neurosurgery has published a new method utilizing ‘quantum dots’ developed using nanotechnology to observe the impacts of stem cell treatments for stroke and other brain injuries.

30 Mar 2011

RNCOS Reports on Current Trends and Growth Prospects of Quantum Dots Market

According to a research conducted by RNCOS, quantum dots will be applicable in sectors as biology and biomedicine, computing and memory, electronics and displays; to security solutions such as detection sensors or covert identification tagging.

28 Mar 2011

Plasmonic Nanodots to Magnify Sensor Signals

Scientists at Princeton have developed a sensor that helps track multiple substances from cancer to hidden explosives.

28 Mar 2011

All-Optical Switch Takes Quantum Communications to a New Level

Scientists at Northwestern University can track quantum bits or intertwined light particles at high speeds over a shared fiber-optic cable network without letting the data in the quantum bits to be lost.

16 Mar 2011

Bochum Physicists Readout Energy-State Occupancy of Artificial Atoms

Bochum physicists are constructing 0-dimensional systems. Through his participation, the research team from Bochum, Duisburg-Essen, and Hamburg now has succeeded in an energy-state occupancy readout of those artificial atoms – using common interfaces to classic computers.

28 Feb 2011

NIST Scientists Confirm That Etched Quantum Dots Work as Sources of Single Photons

Like snowflakes or fingerprints, no two quantum dots are identical. But a new etching method for shaping and positioning these semiconductor nanocrystals might change that.

From National Institute of Standards and Tech (NIST) 25 Feb 2011

New Report on Quantum Dot Technologies

Electronics.ca Publications, the electronics industry market research and knowledge network, announces the availability of a new report entitled "Quantum Dots: Technologies and Global Markets". Among the man...

24 Feb 2011

New Technology for Developing Quantum Dot Solar Cells

The sun provides more than enough energy for all our needs, if only we could harness it cheaply and efficiently. Solar energy could provide a clean alternative to fossil fuels, but the high cost of solar cells has been a major barrier to their widespread use.

21 Feb 2011

Andreev Bound States in Superconducting Graphene Quantum Dots

Illinois researchers have documented the first observations of some unusual physics when two prominent electric materials are connected: superconductors and graphene. Led by University of Illinois physics professor Na...

15 Feb 2011