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Chemistry World April 7, 2011 |
Molecular Fridge Can Reach Millikelvin Scientists have laid the foundations for a high-performance 'molecular fridge' capable of reaching temperatures within a few thousandths of a degree of absolute zero with a high degree of efficiency.  |
Technology Research News September 10, 2003 Eric Smalley |
Electron teams make bigger qubits Making quantum computers from electronic chips rather than cumbersome laboratory equipment requires control over individual electrons. A scheme that has a string of electrons acting as one could ease the task by expanding the target to a whopping 250 millionths of a millimeter.  |
Chemistry World October 27, 2010 Laura Howes |
Single molecule magnets line up Italian researchers claim that they've bound a single molecule magnet to a gold surface, whilst retaining the magnet's properties.  |
Technology Research News January 1, 2003 Eric Smalley |
Electron pairs power quantum plan Researchers from HP Laboratories and Qinetiq plc in England have mapped out a way to manipulate a pair of very cold electrons that could eventually lead to practical quantum computers made from quantum dots, or tiny specks of the type of semiconductor material used in electronics.  |
IEEE Spectrum September 2007 Lieven Vandersypen |
Dot-to-Dot Design Researchers are connecting tiny puddles of electrons in a chip and making them compute -- the quantum way.  |
Technology Research News November 3, 2004 Eric Smalley |
Single Field Shapes Quantum Bits Researchers have recently realized that it may be possible to control the electrons in a quantum computer using a single magnetic field rather than having to produce extremely small, precisely focused magnetic fields for each electron.  |
Technology Research News February 23, 2005 |
Metal atoms make silicon magnetic Devices made from magnetic semiconductors can make use of the spin of the electron in addition to its charge. These spintronics devices are potentially faster and consume less power than today' electronics.  |
Technology Research News June 1, 2005 |
Magnetic Resonance Goes Nano Researchers have built a nuclear magnetic resonance device that has the potential to overcome the quantum bit limit because it is small enough to fit on a computer chip.  |
Chemistry World January 22, 2015 Simon Hadlington |
Diamond sensor atom scale imaging proposed Researchers in the US have devised a novel strategy for mapping multiple nuclear spins in a single molecule using quantum sensors in diamond.  |
Chemistry World September 25, 2007 Richard Van Noorden |
Magnetic Dreams Disputed Magnetochemists are disputing the breakthrough discovery of a metal-organic material which its inventors claimed to be magnetic at room temperature and stable in air.  |
Technology Research News February 23, 2005 |
Light writes data in electrons Researchers developed a spin memory device that writes data as electron spins using lasers, stores the electrons in quantum dots, and reads spin information by applying a voltage to the quantum dots to generate photons.  |
IEEE Spectrum February 2013 Rachel Courtland |
Graphene Goes the Distance in Spintronics Experiments push electron-spin signals to record lengths  |
Technology Research News December 15, 2004 |
Scheme Simplifies Quantum Chips Researchers have brought practical quantum computers a step closer by proposing a type of quantum bit that is relatively easy to build.  |
Chemistry World July 20, 2012 Simon Hadlington |
New type of chemical bond around dwarf stars The work, led by Trygve Helgaker at the University of Oslo in Norway, not only provides insights into fundamental aspects of electronic interactions with magnetic fields, but also sheds light on the exotic chemistry that exists in stellar environments.  |
Technology Research News August 11, 2004 Eric Smalley |
Chips measure electron spin Practical quantum computers are at least a decade away, and some researchers are betting that they will never be built. But a pair of recent experiments may prove them wrong.  |
Chemistry World November 21, 2014 Simon Hadlington |
Magnetic resonance taken to the limit Researchers in the US have taken magnetic resonance imaging to its extreme by developing a technique to detect the spin of a single nucleus.  |
Chemistry World January 17, 2007 Richard Van Noorden |
Molecular Magnets of Mystery Researchers have discovered a new class of molecular magnets which work above room temperature. But why the magnets work, and what their structures are, remains a perplexing mystery.  |
Chemistry World September 18, 2007 Simon Hadlington |
Researchers See Electrons in a Spin Scientists in the US have successfully measured the spin polarisation state of single atoms adsorbed to a surface, bringing the prospect of quantum computing and spin-based electronics (spintronics) a step closer.  |
Technology Research News November 17, 2004 |
Atom Flip Energy Measured Scientists have measured the energy required to flip the magnetic orientation, or spin of a single atom trapped on a surface.  |
IEEE Spectrum September 2007 Joshua J. Romero |
Magnetic Storage Taken to the Atomic Scale International team of scientists learns to read and write data on islands of atoms.  |
Chemistry World July 19, 2011 Jon Cartwright |
Magnetic Sponge Can Squeeze Itself Out Researchers in Japan and Singapore have created a sponge that can wring itself out upon application of a magnetic field.  |
Chemistry World January 20, 2011 Jon Cartwright |
Chemists separate water isomers Chemists in Israel claim to have separated water into its two spin isomers and suggest the outcome could deliver highly sensitive nuclear magnetic resonance experiments.  |
Chemistry World August 30, 2006 Tom Westgate |
Lasers Shed Light on Magnetic Resonance A new way of measuring nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) in liquid samples could have implications across spectroscopy and imaging, report researchers.  |
IEEE Spectrum July 2011 Joel E. Moore |
Topological Insulators Quantum magic can make strange but useful semiconductors that are insulators on the inside and conductors on the surface  |
Chemistry World January 15, 2010 Andy Extance |
Quantum computer hits hydrogen bullseye A basic quantum computer has successfully tackled one of the most challenging tasks facing chemists today - calculating molecular energy from basic scientific principles.  |
IEEE Spectrum January 2007 Elizabeth Svoboda |
Fresh Spin On Logic In the last few years, a new type of memory has begun to penetrate the market for nonvolatile data storage. In addition to being much faster, spintronics processors could be much smaller than present-day processors.  |
Technology Research News November 5, 2003 |
Electrons spin magnetic fields Spintronics researchers are looking for ways to control and use electron spin. Researchers from Cornell University and Yale University have brought the field a step forward by showing that a flow of electrons that all have the same spin can transfer angular momentum to magnetic material.  |
Chemistry World October 1, 2014 Philip Ball |
Probing molecules atom by atom A new technique that can 'see' individual spins of electrons and nuclei in single molecules could enable nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy atom by atom.  |
Chemistry World January 26, 2012 Simon Hadlington |
The world's first magnetic soap Researchers have created a liquid surfactant that can be moved by a magnet.  |
Technology Research News January 1, 2003 Kimberly Patch |
Aligned fields could speed storage Researchers from three institutes in Germany and Russia have found a material whose electric and magnetic domains line up together. The work could bring together the currently separate fields of magnetic and electronic data storage, which would give both methods more flexibility.  |
Industrial Physicist Aug/Sep 2004 Eric J. Lerner |
News: Plasmon microscopy A new technique allows far-field optical microscopy with resolutions well below the wavelength of light.  |
Technology Research News December 19, 2005 |
Quantum computing: qubits Quantum bits, or qubits, are the quantum equivalent of the transistors that make up today's computers. There are four established qubit candidates: ion traps, quantum dots, semiconductor impurities, and superconducting circuits.  |
Reactive Reports December 2003 David Bradley |
Airy magnets Spanish researchers have created a new type of magnetic material that is ultra-light and transparent. The airy magnets could have applications in flat screen displays and magneto-optical memory devices for computers.  |
Technology Research News March 9, 2005 |
Avalanches up Disk Storage Researchers have constructed a spin-valve transistor that is more sensitive to microscopic magnetic fields than the devices that read today's commercial hard drives.  |
Chemistry World November 28, 2007 Richard Van Noorden |
Magnetic Field Detectors for Less Than a Penny Cheap electronic components industrially manufactured in their millions every year are also smart materials that can sense magnetic fields without any external power supply, UK scientists have discovered.  |
IEEE Spectrum August 2007 Stick et al. |
The Trap Technique In this first part of a two-part series, the authors discuss how today's computers are running out of room for classical physics to work and how working with the quantum nature of things instead of against it will open up vast new frontiers for computing.  |
Technology Research News January 14, 2004 Eric Smalley |
Quantum dice debut Researchers have overcome a major obstacle to generating random numbers on quantum computers by limiting the possibilities in the otherwise unlimited randomness of a set of quantum particles.  |
Chemistry World June 27, 2010 Simon Hadlington |
Nanoparticles allow remote control of cells In an experiment reminiscent of the mind-control rays that featured prominently in B-movies from the 1950s, scientists in the US have used a magnetic field to alter the behavior of an animal.  |
Chemistry World February 11, 2014 Stephen McCarthy |
Multiferroic material breaks symmetry with layers Scientists have made a material capable of both piezoelectric and ferromagnetic behavior. The discovery opens up the possibility of a new class of polarizable and magnetic compounds, and could lead to better devices for storing electronic information.  |
IEEE Spectrum November 2010 Bedair et al. |
Spintronic Memories to Revolutionize Data Storage Superdense MRAM chips based on the bizarre property of electron spin could replace all other forms of data storage  |
Technology Research News April 7, 2004 Eric Smalley |
Sturdy quantum computing demoed The atomic or subatomic components of prototype quantum computers usually have to be carefully sheltered from the environment, but a method that makes qubits immune to noise shows promise.  |
IEEE Spectrum March 2011 Saswato R. Das |
A Crowd of Quantum Entanglements Phosphorus-in-silicon system could lead to quantum computers  |
Reactive Reports Issue 67 David Bradley |
Attractive Changing Colors Chemists have discovered that a simple magnet can be used to change the color of nanoparticles of iron oxide in aqueous suspension.  |
Chemistry World June 20, 2013 Jim Al-Khalili |
Change: the only constant Today, there is much interest in a wide range of biological phenomena that may have a quantum origin, from our sense of smell to photosynthesis and mutations in DNA.  |
Technology Research News August 13, 2003 Eric Smalley |
Quantum computer keeps it simple Controlling fleeting quantum particles usually requires making extraordinarily precise devices. A proposal that calls for chaperoning pairs of particles and getting all of the particles in a quantum computer to sing the same tune could ease this burden.  |
Chemistry World December 10, 2007 Killugudi Jayaraman |
Scientists Trap Light in Nano-Soup Physicists in India, have demonstrated how to trap and retrieve light using a soup of micro- and nano-sized magnetic spheres.  |
CIO March 15, 2002 John Edwards |
Quantum Leap A quantum physics breakthrough could turn pipe dreams, such as ultra-high-speed quantum computers and teleportation, into real-world technologies...  |
Geotimes June 2007 Kathryn Hansen |
So, When Did Earth Become Attractive? Ever since Earth's protective field was discovered in 1958, scientists have been wondering when did the planet grow up and become attractive?  |
Chemistry World August 29, 2014 Simon Hadlington |
Rigid molecular wires make electrons fly Researchers in Germany and Japan have shown that a new type of organic molecular wire -- which is flat and rigid -- can transfer electrons at more than 800 times the speed of its conventional, flexible counterpart.  |
Chemistry World November 22, 2012 Jon Cartwright |
Magnesium oxide might be liquid in super-Earths There may be more planets outside our solar system with protective magnetic fields than previously thought. That's the implication of a US study, which has demonstrated that the common planetary mineral magnesium oxide turns into a metallic liquid at high pressure.  |