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Development of nonvolatile spintronics-based 50W microcontroller unit operating at 200MHz

“Researchers at Tohoku University have announced the development of a nonvolatile microcontroller unit (MCU) which achieves both high performance and ultra-low power by utilizing spintronics-based VLSI design technology. The demand for low-power, high-performance microcontroller units (MCUs) has been increasing for …

Electric car batteries inspire safer, cheaper way to manufacture compounds used in medicines

“Recent advances in battery technology, from the engineering of their cases to the electrochemistry that takes place inside them, has enabled the rapid rise of Teslas, Leafs, Volts and other electric cars. Now, scientists at Scripps Research, inspired by the …

Exploring the global landscape of quantum technology research

“Leading quantum technology experts from around the world have explored their respective regional and national goals for the future of the field, in a new focus issue of Quantum Science and Technology (QST). The first five articles in the collection …

Failed 1970s Venus Probe Could Crash to Earth This Year

“Here’s another warning about incoming space hardware — but this saga has an interplanetary connection. First, we have to peel back space history to the early 1970s, just after the height of the Cold War space-race between the Soviet Union …

Fast, Flexible Ionic Transistors for Bioelectronic Devices

“Many major advances in medicine, especially in neurology, have been sparked by recent advances in electronic systems that can acquire, process, and interact with biological substrates. These bioelectronic systems, which are increasingly used to understand dynamic living organisms and to …

FLOC Takes Flight: First Portable Prototype of Photonic Pressure Sensor

“In collaboration with industry, researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have made the first portable prototype of the Fixed-Length Optical Cavity (FLOC), a device that uses light to measure pressure with higher accuracy and precision than …

Graphite offers up new quantum surprise

“Researchers at The University of Manchester have discovered unexpected phenomena in graphite thanks to their previous research on its two-dimensional (2D) relative – graphene. The team led by Dr Artem Mishchenko, Prof Volodya Fal’ko and Prof Sir Andre Geim, discovered …

High-powered fuel cell boosts electric-powered submersibles, drones

“The transportation industry is one of the largest consumers of energy in the U.S. economy with increasing demand to make it cleaner and more efficient. While more people are using electric cars, designing electric-powered planes, ships and submarines is …

‘Immunizing’ quantum bits so that they can grow up

“New material enhances supercurrent in topological-insulator nanoribbon Josephson junctions Quantum computers will process significantly more information at once compared to today’s computers. But the building blocks that contain this information – quantum bits, or “qubits” – are way too sensitive to …

Intel Drives Development of Quantum Cryoprober with Bluefors and Afore to Accelerate Quantum Computing

“Intel,Bluefors and Afore have introduced the first cryoprober, a quantum testing device named the Cryogenic Wafer Prober, developed specifically to speed the development of quantum computing solutions. Intel identified the need for a quantum testing tool to collect more …