Quantum Dots Lead To Entanglement Breakthrough
News Mostly made from gallium arsenide, a common semiconductor already widely used in fast logic and optoelectronics, the device's key components are quantum dots of indium arsenide 12nm in diameter and 6nm high.
[January 11, 2006, 17:45]
Quantum Dots Lead To Entanglement Breakthrough
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[January 12, 2006, 3:26]
MIT Makes Quantum Leap In Display Technology
News The displays are based around quantum dots -- microscopic holes in a crystalline structure that are designed to hold a handful of electrons. Practically speaking, a layer of quantum dots is sandwiched between two layers of other compounds, one...
[January 13, 2003, 15:57]
Building The Future By Joining The Dots
Leader The gunk is a colloidal suspension of semiconductor quantum dots that dries out in the right geometry to form a laser: if you go poking around in the mechanisms of quantum dots, you soon find that some of the mathematics involved touches on the...
[April 19, 2006, 16:25]
Nanocrystal Sheds New Light On Future Illumination
News The white-light emitting nanocrystals were discovered by graduate student Michael Bowers, who was trying to make blue-light emitting quantum dots. Quantum dots are nanometre-sized collections of atoms that contain and control small numbers of...
[October 24, 2005, 16:45]
Night Goggles Get Nano-vision
News The two universities announced that researchers have developed sensors with quantum dots that can detect infrared radiation at the same levels as sensors in the night vision goggles currently used by the military.
[June 17, 2004, 9:45]
Large Scale Simulations In Nanostructures With NEMO3-D On Linux Clusters
White Papers Target applications for NEMO3D include semiconductor quantum dots and semiconductor quantum wires. NEMO3D is a quantum mechanical based simulation tool created to provide quantitative predictions for nanometer-scaled semiconductor devices.
[April 1, 2007, 1:00]
Toshiba Shows Practical Quantum Cryptography
News Although Toshiba has been developing special hardware to create and analyse single photon transactions by quantum dots -- effectively artificial atoms integrated with control circuitry -- the current cryptographic equipment uses standard parts...
[December 13, 2004, 17:15]
Start-up Shows Off Quantum Computer
News Each qubit consists of dots of the element niobium surrounded by coils of wire. The Canadian company on Tuesday gave a public demonstration of Orion, its quantum computer, at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California.
[February 15, 2007, 8:02]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Not only are quantum dots by far the coolest thing you can make with a handful of atoms, as they give you the chance to control electrons in ways nature never intended, but the resultant light is high on the list of the strangest things in the...
[January 13, 2006, 17:05]
Nanotubes Shed New Light On Fibre Optics
News At the University of Toronto, meanwhile, researchers have managed to produce light by injecting electrons into a polymer embedded with "quantum dots," microscopic crystals made of lead sulfide. Researchers at IBM and the University of Toronto are...
[May 2, 2003, 7:57]
British Scientists Create Atom-thick Transistor
News The team is led by Dr Kostya Novoselov and Professor Andre Geim of the School of Physics and Astronomy, who were among the first to identify graphene four years ago, and their paper on the subject is entitled Chaotic Dirac Billiard in Graphene...
[April 21, 2008, 14:17]
IBM Hopes To Use DNA To Build Chips
News Our goal is to use these structures as bread boards on which to assemble carbon nanotubes, silicon nanowires, quantum dots," said Greg Wallraff, an IBM scientist and a lithography and materials expert working on the project.
[February 20, 2008, 17:33]
Paint-on Lasers Promise Faster Chip Future
News Once painted onto the right structure and allowed to dry - in demonstrations, the researchers have used a miniscule glass tube and a hairdryer - the dots form a device that will emit laser light if pulsed with ordinary light in the right way.
[April 19, 2006, 16:15]
