• New ultrathin capacitor could enable energy-efficient microchips
    Wednesday, June 22, 2022 from Phys.org: Phys.org news tagged with: computer chips
    The silicon-based computer chips that power our modern devices require vast amounts of energy to operate. Despite ever-improving computing efficiency, information technology is projected to consume around 25% of all primary energy...
  • New hardware integrates mechanical devices into quantum tech
    Friday, April 22, 2022 from Phys.org: Phys.org news tagged with: computer chips
    Stanford University researchers have developed a key experimental device for future quantum physics-based technologies that borrows a page from current, everyday mechanical devices.
  • Device directs sperm to 'go against the flow' to help infertility
    Thursday, March 31, 2022 from Phys.org: Phys.org news tagged with: computer chips
    The female genital tract can be a hostile environment for conception. Out of about 100 million sperm, only a few hundred make it to the fallopian tubes. Guided by a directional movement called rheotaxis, sperm cells swim against the...
  • A new class of materials for nanoscale patterning
    Thursday, March 24, 2022 from Phys.org: Phys.org news tagged with: computer chips
    The microscopic components that make up computer chips must be made at staggering scales. With billions of transistors in a single processor, each made of multiple materials carefully arranged in patterns as thin as a strand of DNA,...
  • What consumers can expect of the global supply chain
    Monday, January 10, 2022 from Phys.org: Phys.org news tagged with: computer chips
    The disruption in the global supply chain that caused shortages in everything from coffee to automotive parts to computer chips beginning in mid-2019 will be around for at least a few more months, according to most experts.
  • All-optical computing based on convolutional neural networks
    Tuesday, November 30, 2021 from Phys.org: Phys.org news tagged with: computer chips
    In a new publication from Opto-Electronic Advances the research group of Professor Xiaoyong Hu and Professor Qihuang Gong from School of Physics, Peking University, China, propose a new strategy to realize ultrafast and...
  • Heat conduction record with tantalum nitride
    Wednesday, March 31, 2021 from Phys.org: Phys.org news tagged with: computer chips
    A thermos bottle has the task of preserving the temperature—but sometimes you want to achieve the opposite: Computer chips generate heat that must be dissipated as quickly as possible so that the chip is not destroyed. This requires...
  • Xanadu announces programmable photonic quantum chip able to execute multiple algorithms
    Monday, March 8, 2021 from Phys.org: Phys.org news tagged with: computer chips
    A team of researchers and engineers at Canadian company Xanadu Quantum Technologies Inc., working with the National Institute of Standards and Technology in the U.S., has developed a programmable, scalable photonic quantum chip that can...
  • Heat-free optical switch would enable optical quantum computing chips
    Wednesday, March 3, 2021 from Phys.org: Phys.org news tagged with: computer chips
    In a potential boost for quantum computing and communication, a European research collaboration reported a new method of controlling and manipulating single photons without generating heat. The solution makes it possible to integrate...
  • Graphene 'nano-origami' creates tiniest microchips yet
    Tuesday, February 16, 2021 from Phys.org: Phys.org news tagged with: computer chips
    The tiniest microchips yet can be made from graphene and other 2-D-materials, using a form of "nano-origami," physicists at the University of Sussex have found.
  • Electrons caught in the act
    Thursday, January 21, 2021 from Phys.org: Phys.org news tagged with: computer chips
    A team of researchers from the Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences at the University of Tsukuba filmed the ultrafast motion of electrons with sub-nanoscale spatial resolution. This work provides a powerful tool for studying the...
  • Enhanced frequency doubling adds to photonics toolkit
    Tuesday, December 8, 2020 from Phys.org: Phys.org news tagged with: computer chips
    The digital age has seen electronics, including computer chips, shrink in size at an amazing rate, with ever tinier chips powering devices like smartphones, laptops and even autonomous drones. In the wake of this progress, another...
  • Physicists invent printable superconducting device
    Friday, November 27, 2020 from Phys.org: Phys.org news tagged with: computer chips
    Superconducting devices such as SQUIDS (Superconducting Quantum Interferometry Device) can perform ultra-sensitive measurements of magnetic fields. Leiden physicsts invented a method to 3-D-print these and other superconducting devices...
  • Optical wiring for large quantum computers
    Thursday, October 22, 2020 from Phys.org: Phys.org news tagged with: computer chips
    Researchers at ETH have demonstrated a new technique for carrying out sensitive quantum operations on atoms. In this technique, the control laser light is delivered directly inside a chip. This should make it possible to build...
  • A novel, low-cost method detects nanoscale contaminants during manufacture of semiconductor devices
    Tuesday, October 20, 2020 from Phys.org: Phys.org news tagged with: computer chips
    As computer chips and other electronic devices continue to shrink in size, they become ever more sensitive to contamination. However, detecting the nanoscale equivalent of a water spot on a window is incredibly challenging. It is...
  • Enzymatic DNA synthesis sees the light
    Friday, October 16, 2020 from Phys.org: Phys.org news tagged with: computer chips
    According to current estimates, the amount of data produced by humans and machines is rising at an exponential rate, with the digital universe doubling in size every two years. Very likely, the magnetic and optical data-storage systems...
  • Reconfiguring microwave photonic filters without an external device
    Monday, September 7, 2020 from Phys.org: Phys.org news tagged with: computer chips
    Researchers from EPFL's Photonics Systems Lab have come up with a way of reconfiguring microwave photonic filters without the need for an external device. This paves the way for more compact, environmentally friendly filters that will be...
  • Wiring a new path to scalable quantum computing
    Friday, July 3, 2020 from Phys.org: Phys.org news tagged with: computer chips
    Last year, Google produced a 53-qubit quantum computer that could perform a specific calculation significantly faster than the world's fastest supercomputer. Like most of today's largest quantum computers, this system boasts tens of...
  • Is teleportation possible? Yes, in the quantum world
    Friday, June 19, 2020 from Phys.org: Phys.org news tagged with: computer chips
    "Beam me up" is one of the most famous catchphrases from the Star Trek series. It is the command issued when a character wishes to teleport from a remote location back to the Starship Enterprise.
  • Hot qubits break one of the biggest constraints to practical quantum computers
    Wednesday, April 15, 2020 from Phys.org: Phys.org news tagged with: computer chips
    Most quantum computers being developed around the world will only work at fractions of a degree above absolute zero. That requires multi-million-dollar refrigeration and as soon as you plug them into conventional electronic circuits...
  • Making big data processing more energy efficient using magnetic circuits
    Monday, April 13, 2020 from Phys.org: Phys.org news tagged with: computer chips
    The rapid progression of technology has led to a huge increase in energy usage to process the massive troves of data generated by devices. But researchers in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin have...
  • What if we could teach photons to behave like electrons?
    Wednesday, February 19, 2020 from Phys.org: Phys.org news tagged with: computer chips
    To develop futuristic technologies like quantum computers, scientists will need to find ways to control photons, the basic particles of light, just as precisely as they can already control electrons, the basic particles in electronic...
  • Artificial atoms create stable qubits for quantum computing
    Tuesday, February 11, 2020 from Phys.org: Phys.org news tagged with: computer chips
    Quantum engineers from UNSW Sydney have created artificial atoms in silicon chips that offer improved stability for quantum computing.
  • How to verify that quantum chips are computing correctly
    Tuesday, January 14, 2020 from Phys.org: Phys.org news tagged with: computer chips
    In a step toward practical quantum computing, researchers from MIT, Google, and elsewhere have designed a system that can verify when quantum chips have accurately performed complex computations that classical computers can't.
  • In leap for quantum computing, silicon quantum bits establish a long-distance relationship
    Wednesday, December 25, 2019 from Phys.org: Phys.org news tagged with: computer chips
    Imagine a world where people could only talk to their next-door neighbor, and messages must be passed house to house to reach far destinations.
  • First chip-to-chip quantum teleportation harnessing silicon photonic chip fabrication
    Tuesday, December 24, 2019 from Phys.org: Phys.org news tagged with: computer chips
    The development of technologies which can process information based on the laws of quantum physics are predicted to have profound impacts on modern society.
  • Research team develops tiny low-energy device to rapidly reroute light in computer chips
    Thursday, November 14, 2019 from Phys.org: Phys.org news tagged with: computer chips
    Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and their colleagues have developed an optical switch that routes light from one computer chip to another in just 20 billionths of a second—faster than any other...
  • Electrifying science: New study describes conduction through proteins
    Thursday, October 31, 2019 from Phys.org: Phys.org news tagged with: computer chips
    Amid the zoo of biomolecules essential to life, enzymes are among the most vital. Without these specialized proteins, which speed up the rates of chemical reactions, thousands of essential life processes, from cell growth and digestion...
  • Tunable optical chip paves way for new quantum devices
    Wednesday, October 2, 2019 from Phys.org: Phys.org news tagged with: computer chips
    Researchers have created a silicon carbide (SiC) photonic integrated chip that can be thermally tuned by applying an electric signal. The approach could one day be used to create a large range of reconfigurable devices such as...
  • Researchers develop novel process for structuring quantum materials
    Tuesday, July 30, 2019 from Phys.org: Phys.org news tagged with: computer chips
    Implementing quantum materials in computer chips provides access to fundamentally new technologies. To build high-performance quantum computers, for example, topological insulators have to be combined with superconductors. This...
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