Veeco Instruments Inc. (Nasdaq: VECO) announced that the University of Waterloo, located at the heart of Canada’s technology hub, has purchased a GEN10® Molecular Beam Epitaxy system for its recently opened Quantum-Nano Centre ...
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Canada’s University of Waterloo has ordered a GEN10 molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) system from Veeco Instruments Inc of Plainview, NY, USA for its recently opened Quantum-Nano Centre (QNC) hosting the Waterloo Institute for ...
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and a consortium of top semiconductor companies are handing out US$194 million to universities for research that addresses the physical limitations of semiconductors and chips. The ...
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Luxembourg-registered Element Six (which is part of the De Beers Family of Companies and is co-owned by Belgian materials group Umicore) has opened its first US manufacturing facility in Silicon Valley (in Santa Clara, CA), as part of its ...
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IDG News Service - An American and a Frenchman have won the 2012 Nobel Prize for Physics for their work on quantum optics, which could one day lead to faster computer processors, better telecommunications or more accurate timepieces. ...
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Researchers at MIT and other institutions have demonstrated a new type of magnetism, only the third kind ever found, and it may find its way into future communications, computing and data storage technologies. Working with a tiny ...
Researchers at MIT and other institutions have demonstrated a new type of magnetism, only the third kind ever found, and it may find its way into future communications, computing and data storage technologies. Working with a tiny ...
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By making constant but weak measurements of a quantum system,physicists have managed to probe a delicate quantum state without destroying it–the equivalent of taking a peek at Schrodinger's metaphorical cat without killing it.The ...
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According to the report 'Photonic Integrated Circuit (IC) & quantum computing Market-By Application (optical fiber communication, Optical Fiber sensors, Biomedical, Others), Integration (Hybrid, Module & Monolithic), Components, Raw ...
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Mike Lazaridis,the inventor of the Blackbery and co-founder of RIM,has put$100m into the Mike and Ophelia Lazaridis Quantum-Nano Centre in Waterloo,Ontario,with the intention of re-creating the conditions at Bell Labs which made many of the ...
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Scientists from the University of Bristol have developed a quantum silicon chip that they say guarantees"absolute security"for computers and smartphones.The technology could be available commercially in less than five years. Unlike ...
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Silicon photonics processors have been developed by a research team at Bristol University and are currently being commercialised by Nokia and Toshiba. "In the next three years we will demonstrate devices that will outperform computers for ...