News tagged with quantum images

Quantum dots could boost performance of mobile phone cameras

(PhysOrg.com) -- As it's becoming more and more difficult for silicon alone to improve the sensors used in today's digital cameras, a new material may be emerging from physics labs to provide a large performance ...

Electronics / Hardware

created Mar 22, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (22) | comments 11 | with audio podcast report

Brown physicist discovers odd, fluctuating magnetic waves

At the quantum level, the forces of magnetism and superconductivity exist in an uneasy relationship. Superconducting materials repel a magnetic field, so to create a superconducting current, the magnetic forces ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 23, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (21) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Google Collaborates with D-Wave on Possible Quantum Image Search

(PhysOrg.com) -- Always on the cutting edge of new computing technologies, Google has recently announced that it is investigating the use of quantum computing schemes to achieve faster image recognition rates. ...

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (23) | comments 4 weblog

Nanotech discovery could lead to breakthrough in infrared satellite imaging technology

Researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a new nanotechnology-based "microlens" that uses gold to boost the strength of infrared imaging and could lead to a new generation of ultra-powerful ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 18, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (16) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Physicists describe how to make time-reversed light pulses

(PhysOrg.com) -- By taking advantage of the properties of periodic systems, physicists have described how to efficiently time-reverse ultrashort electromagnetic pulses. Since a time-reversed pulse evolves ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 31, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (17) | comments 44 | with audio podcast feature

Atom and its quantum mirror image

A team of physicists experimentally produces quantum-superpositions, simply using a mirror.

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Apr 05, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (15) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Graphane yields new potential: Physicists dig theoretical wells to mine quantum dots

Graphane is the material of choice for physicists on the cutting edge of materials science, and Rice University researchers are right there with the pack - and perhaps a little ahead.

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 25, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (14) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

To peer inside a living cell

(PhysOrg.com) -- Quantum mechanics could help build ultra-high-resolution electron microscopes that won't destroy living cells, according to MIT electrical engineers.

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 3

New imaging technique reveals the atomic structure of nanocrystals

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new imaging technique developed by researchers at the University of Illinois overcomes the limit of diffraction and can reveal the atomic structure of a single nanocrystal with a resolution ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Feb 18, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (11) | comments 0

UCSB physicists move one step closer to quantum computing

Physicists at UC Santa Barbara have made an important advance in electrically controlling quantum states of electrons, a step that could help in the development of quantum computing. The work is published ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (10) | comments 0

New study may lead to MRIs on a nanoscale

(PhysOrg.com) -- Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) on the nanoscale and the ever-elusive quantum computer are among the advancements edging closer toward the realm of possibility, and a new study co-authored ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Feb 23, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (10) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New genre of sugar-coated 'quantum dots' for drug delivery

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists in Switzerland are reporting an advance that could help tap the much-heralded potential of “quantum dots”— nanocrystals that glow when exposed to ultraviolet light — in the treatment of cancer ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Mar 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Researchers Demonstrate 'Quantum Data Buffering' Scheme

(PhysOrg.com) -- Pushing the envelope of Albert Einstein's "spooky action at a distance," known as entanglement, researchers at the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI) of the Commerce Department's ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 12, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (7) | comments 1

Cadmium selenide quantum dots degrade in soil, releasing their toxic guts

Quantum dots made from cadmium and selenium degrade in soil, unleashing toxic cadmium and selenium ions into their surroundings, a University at Buffalo study has found.

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jul 18, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Researchers create high performance infrared camera based on type-II InAs/GaSb superlattices

Researchers at Northwestern University have created a new infrared camera based on Type-II InAs/GaSb superlattices that produces much higher resolution images than previous infrared cameras.

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 03, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 3 | with audio podcast