Atoms, molecules or even living cells can be manipulated with light beams. At TU Wien a method was developed to revolutionize such "optical tweezers".…
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Excellent performance in ultra-scale FETs with 2D-channel
At this year’s IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (Dec 7-11 2019), imec, a world-leading research and innovation hub in nanoelectronics and digital technologies, reports…
Imaging, robotics, simulations and solar cells research projects to be funded by ERC
Four more research projects at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) are to receive funding in the form of Consolidator Grants from the European…
Ultra-clean carbon nanotube transistors with superb properties
Single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWCNT) have found many uses in electronics and new touch screen devices. Carbon nanotubes are sheets of one atom-thick layer of…
Silicon portfolio for next generation of data centres
This week, at the 45th European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC), imec, a world-leading research and innovation hub in nanoelectronics and digital technologies, together…
Researches have integrated 2D single-photon emitter
Researchers from the Photonics Research Group, an imec research group at Ghent university and MIT announced that they have integrated single photon emitters in…
Soft robot learns to move and grab objects
Researchers trained material the same way as Pavlov trained dogs. A specially conditioned liquid crystal polymer could be controlled with the power of light…
Collaboration on chip-based quantum cryptography technology
Securing ourselves through quantum cryptography in a post-quantum world. Collaboration between imec and NUS aims to develop scalable, robust, and cost-effective quantum cryptographic systems…
Open source content to improve knowledge of quantum phenomena
A university collaboration between IBM and Aalto and Turku universities aims to build easy-to-use open source content to improve knowledge and intuition of quantum…
Algorithmic thinking
This post answers the question: "What is algorithmic thinking?". In accordance to Britannica encyclopedia, algorithm is a systematic procedure that produces - in finite…