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Bio & Medicine Nov 12, 2018

How to produce fluorescent nanoparticles for medical applications in a nuclear reactor

Under the leadership of Petr Cígler from the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry (IOCB Prague) and Martin Hrubý from the Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry (IMC), a team of researchers has developed a revolutionary ...

General Physics Nov 6, 2018

Physicists design new antenna for next-generation super-sensitive magnetometers

Scientists from ITMO University and Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences have proposed a new microwave antenna that creates a uniform magnetic field in large volume. It is capable of uniform, coherent ...

Nanophysics Oct 16, 2018

Toward unhackable communication: Single particles of light could bring the 'quantum internet'

Hacker attacks on everything from social media accounts to government files could be largely prevented by the advent of quantum communication, which would use particles of light called "photons" to secure information rather ...

General Physics Oct 11, 2018

New tool simultaneously senses magnetic fields in various directions

Imagine trying to make sense of the cacophony of a speaker playing four songs at once, and you have some idea of the challenge faced by Jenny Schloss and Matt Turner.

Nanophysics Oct 5, 2018

On-chip excitation of nanodiamonds embedded in plasmonic waveguides

Quantum emitters can be integrated in monolithic nanoscale plasmonic circuitry via low-loss plasmonic configurations to confine light well below the diffraction limit. In integrated quantum plasmonics, waveguides based on ...

General Physics Sep 10, 2018

Diamond dust enables low-cost, high-efficiency magnetic field detection

UC Berkeley engineers have created a device that dramatically reduces the energy needed to power magnetic field detectors, which could revolutionize how we measure the magnetic fields that flow through our electronics, our ...

Nanomaterials Aug 31, 2018

Autocannibalistic materials feed on themselves to grow new nanostructures

Scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory induced a two-dimensional material to cannibalize itself for atomic "building blocks" from which stable structures formed.

General Physics Aug 20, 2018

Researchers discover link between magnetic field strength and temperature

Researchers recently discovered that the strength of the magnetic field required to elicit a particular quantum mechanical process, such as photoluminescence and the ability to control spin states with electromagnetic (EM) ...

Quantum Physics Aug 13, 2018

Another step forward on universal quantum computer

Researchers have demonstrated holonomic quantum gates under zero-magnetic field at room temperature, which could enable the realization of fast and fault-tolerant universal quantum computers.

General Physics Aug 9, 2018

Diamond-based sensors enable spintronics and next-generation MRI

Sensors developed under the DIADEMS project and capable of measuring magnetic fields with unprecedented accuracy are on the path to commercialisation. The technology has already spurred the creation of four start-ups.

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