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Prestigious European ERC Consolidator Grant Awarded to imec’s Clement Merckling for Developing Fault-tolerant Qubits

Imec, a world-leading research and innovation hub in nanoelectronics and digital technologies, today announces that the European Research Council has awarded Clement Merckling, principal member of technical staff at imec, a Consolidator Grant for working out his project NOTICE.

From imec 12 Dec 2019

Ferromagnetic Nanowire Helps Detect Penetration Point of Abrikosov Vortices

A research team from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT), the Institute of Solid State Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and Lomonosov Moscow State University has demonstrated that Abrikosov vortices that penetrate via a superconductor-ferromagnet interface could now be detected.

10 Dec 2019

Study Reveals Mysterious Electronic Signature of Iron-Based Superconductors

Physicists at Rice University have used an ingenious method to draw a detailed map revealing the “rules of the road” for electrons, both in the critical moments and in normal conditions, just before the material changes into a superconductor.

9 Dec 2019

ETH Physicists Offer New Insight into the Origin of Photoelectrons

One of the most important processes in light-matter interaction is the generation of photoelectrons via ionization. But profound questions remain about the way photons convey their linear momentum to electrons. Reconst...

6 Dec 2019

Using Quantum Mechanics to Generate Power from Fusion Energy

High energies are often involved in nuclear physics, as demonstrated by experiments performed to govern the controlled nuclear fusion.

6 Dec 2019

SpaceChain Sends Blockchain Technology to the International Space Station

SpaceChain announced that its blockchain hardware wallet technology is on its way to the International Space Station, aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket as part of today's CRS-19 commercial resupply service mission.

6 Dec 2019

Study Reveals Why Photons in Intergalactic Space Fail to Reach the Earth

An international research team has enhanced a computer program that helps replicate the behavior of photons when they interact with hydrogen present in the intergalactic space.

5 Dec 2019

Parker Solar Probe Reveals New Evidence of the Origins of Solar Wind

The latest evidence of the origins of the solar wind has been revealed by the Parker Solar Probe spacecraft, which has traveled closer to the Sun than any mission carried out so far.

5 Dec 2019

Star-Quake Vibrations Lead to New Estimate for Milky Way Age

Data gathered by NASA’s now defunct Kepler telescope provides a solution to an astronomical mystery.

4 Dec 2019

AUREA Technology Exhibits the Best-In-Class Optical Building-Blocks for Quantum Technologies at Photonics West 2020 in San Francisco

AUREA Technology is exhibiting a fully comprehensive suite of the essential optical building-blocks required in Quantum technologies at booth # 857-957 at the SPIE Photonics West exhibition in February 2020 in San Francisco.

From AUREA Technology 4 Dec 2019