Indium arsenide may provide clues to quantum information processing
“We’re not saying we’ve built a quantum computer,” Andreas Fuhrer tells PhysOrg.com, “but this is an important first step towards spin manipulation via the spin-orbit interaction.”
Nanophysics news
Understanding light at the nanoscale: a nano-sized double-slit experiment
Before nanotechnology can reach its full potential, researchers must understand the way things work on the nanoscale—which is often very different from the macroscopic world. One of these areas is light, and how light interacts ...
'Blown Bubble' Method Disperses Nanostructures Over Large Areas
Researchers from Harvard University and the University of Hawaii at Manoa recently announced a new method for organizing nanowires and carbon nanotubes across large areas: blowing bubbles.
Researchers Suggest Quantum Dots as Media for Teleportation
According to recent research, tiny clusters of atoms known as quantum dots may be excellent media for quantum teleportation, a physics phenomenon in which information – in the form of a quantum state, a very specific mathematical ...
Scientists Hand-Make Devices Smaller than 10 Nanometers
A research team from the University of Pennsylvania has used an electron beam to hand-carve ultra-small metal structures and devices, all with dimensions below 10 nanometers, from very thin metal sheets. Their technique could ...
Nanobubbles exist, and are more stable than previously thought
When William Ducker, a professor at the University of Melbourne in Australia started experiments on so-called nanobubbles that form as a gas state on the boundary between liquid and gas, he fully expected to discover two ...
Magnetic particles act as ink in new printer
By using a laser beam to focus and push particles against a substrate, scientist Lars Helseth of Nanyang Technological University in Singapore has designed and built a unique type of colloidal printer. Taking advantage of ...
For low-cost DNA nanostructures, recycle sticky ends
Scientists from Duke University have recently demonstrated a new method for assembling large, low-cost DNA nanostructures, in part by reusing the “sticky-ends,” the broken DNA strands used to connect the nanostructures. In ...
New Organic Gold-Nanoparticle Memory Device
Researchers have developed a new memory device that uses gold nanoparticles and the organic semiconducting compound pentacene. This novel pairing is a key step forward in the drive to develop organic "plastic" memory devices, ...
Telescoping nanotubes offer new option for nonvolatile memory
In the midst of a widespread and potentially highly lucrative search for next-generation nonvolatile memory, scientists from the University of California have put to use an interesting characteristic of carbon nanotubes. ...
