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HYPRES’ Six-Layer Planarized Chip Fabrication Process Increases Integration Level of Superconducting ICs

HYPRES, Inc., the Digital Superconductor Company™, announces the commercial availability of its newest six-layer planarized chip fabrication process. This new process increases the integration level of superconducting ICs and critical current density of Josephson junctions, making it ideal for customers developing high performance, energy efficient solutions for high-end computing, advanced wireless communications and instrumentation.

9 Jul 2013

Murchison Widefield Array Radio Telescope Will Help Study the Early Universe

Solar storms, space junk and the formation of the Universe are about to be seen in an entirely new way with the start of operations today by the $51 million Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) radio telescope.

9 Jul 2013

Sun as a Lab Sheds Light on Asymmetry Between Matter and Antimatter

Antimatter has been detected in solar flares via microwave and magnetic-field data, according to a presentation by NJIT Research Professor of Physics Gregory D. Fleishman and two co-researchers at the 44th meeting of the American Astronomical Society’s Solar Physics Division. This research sheds light on the puzzling strong asymmetry between matter and antimatter by gathering data on a very large scale using the Sun as a laboratory.

9 Jul 2013

Quantum Logic Spectroscopy Enables Study of Single Photons

A team of quantum physicists in Innsbruck led by Christian Roos and Cornelius Hempel have realised an extremely sensitive method for the spectroscopy of atomic and molecular atoms. This technique can be used to closely study a number of particles. The scientists have published their findings in the journal Nature Photonics.

8 Jul 2013

Instant Expert Guide to Quantum Information Now Available Online

What does it take to be an expert in quantum information? CQT Principal Investigator Vlatko Vedral can legitimately call himself one as a Professor with more than 15 years' experience in research and over 200 scientific papers to his name. Now he's offering others the chance to become an 'instant expert' through a guide he has written for New Scientist magazine.

8 Jul 2013

Researchers Observe Formation of Cooper Pairs in High-Temperature Superconductors

Fabrizio Carbone's group (in collaboration with LSU) was able, for the first time, to directly observe the formation of Cooper pairs in real time in a superconducting HTS and determine how the process affects the optical properties of the superconductor

8 Jul 2013

Manchester Theoretical Particle Physicist Wins Institute of Physics Kelvin Award

Professor Jeff Forshaw, in the School of Physics and Astronomy, has won the Institute of Physics Kelvin Award for outstanding contribution to the public understanding of physics.

6 Jul 2013

Science Minister Visits Bristol Lab to Learn About Quantum Technologies

Mr Willetts was given a tour of the University of Bristol’s state-of-the-art Centre for Nanoscience and Quantum Information (NSQI) yesterday [4 July], where vibration and acoustic noise levels are among the lowest ever achieved, despite being located in the centre of Bristol.

6 Jul 2013

Levitated Hot Metal Droplets Supercooled Using X-rays

The experimental work, which was performed at the German Electron Synchrotron Facility (DESY) in Hamburg, involved levitating hot metal droplets and observing them as they cooled by irradiating them with x-rays from one of the world's strongest x-ray sources.

6 Jul 2013

Radioactive Astatine’s Ionization Potential Measured at CERN Lab using LARISSA Lasers

The radioactive element astatine, the name of which is derived from the Greek word for 'instability,' is so rare on earth that it has not yet been investigated to any greater extent and, as a consequence, very little is known about it.

6 Jul 2013