UV-light triggers electron multiplication in nanostructures. Credit: Wisa Förbom The efficiency was so high that at first the researchers had a hard time believing the…
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A Curved New World: Mind and Space Bending Physics on a Convenient Chip
On the left is a representation of a grid of heptagons in a hyperbolic space. To fit the uniform hyperbolic grid into “flat” space, the…
View More A Curved New World: Mind and Space Bending Physics on a Convenient Chip“Janus Emitter” – Scientists Engineer Passive Cooling Device for Surfaces and Enclosed Spaces
The bottom layer of the Janus emitter absorbs the heat inside the vehicle and emits it through the top layer to the atmosphere (indicated in…
View More “Janus Emitter” – Scientists Engineer Passive Cooling Device for Surfaces and Enclosed SpacesGenerating Photons for Communication Between Processors in a Quantum Computing System
Entangled pairs of photons are generated by and propagate away from qubits placed along a waveguide. Credit: Sampson Wilcox New technique provides a means of…
View More Generating Photons for Communication Between Processors in a Quantum Computing SystemThe Most Sensitive Optical Receivers Yet for for Laser-Beam Based Space Communications
An illustration of the new concept’s experimental setup. Credit: Yen Strandqvist/Chalmers University of Technology Communications in space demand the most sensitive receivers possible for maximum…
View More The Most Sensitive Optical Receivers Yet for for Laser-Beam Based Space CommunicationsScientists Create Quietest Semiconductor Quantum Bits Ever – 10 Times Lower Noise Than Previous Record
Artists impression of an atom qubit in silicon being protected from charge noise caused by imperfections in the material environment. Credit: Tony Melov A team…
View More Scientists Create Quietest Semiconductor Quantum Bits Ever – 10 Times Lower Noise Than Previous RecordBuilding a path to extreme-scale computing
Credit: Timofeev Vladimir, Shutterstock High-performance computing (HPC), typically used for solving advanced problems through modeling, simulation, and analysis, is increasingly deployed in scientific and engineering…
View More Building a path to extreme-scale computingFuji envisions 400TB tape drive
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Fujifilm announced a technological breakthrough that will allow it to construct a massive 400 terabyte tape cartridge by the end of…
View More Fuji envisions 400TB tape driveNvidia brings Ampere A100 GPUs to Google Cloud
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Just over a month after announcing its latest generation Ampere A100 GPU, Nvidia said this week that the powerhouse processor system…
View More Nvidia brings Ampere A100 GPUs to Google CloudNew DDR5 SDRAM standard sees performance boost, dual-channel DIMM
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain They were two years behind schedule but the industry group overseeing memory technology development and standardization has finally announced the officials…
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