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Power/Performance Bits: June 10
Quantum dots plus perovskites Researchers at the University of Toronto and KAUST created a hybrid material for solar cells that utilizes both perovskites and quantum dots. Both quantum dots and...
View ArticleSolution-processable integrated CMOS circuits based on colloidal CuInSe2...
Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory and University of California Irvine used quantum dots to create transistors which can be assembled into functional logic circuits. “Potential applications...
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Power/Performance Bits: April 20
Multiplexing twisted light Researchers from University of California San Diego and University of California Berkeley found a way to multiplex light by using discrete twisting laser beams from antennas...
View ArticleFlat-Panel Display Demand Soars
What a difference a year makes in the flat-panel display market. Prior to the Covid-19 pandemic outbreak in early 2020, the flat-panel display (FPD) market was gloomy. Oversupply, falling prices and...
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Will Co-Packaged Optics Replace Pluggables?
As optical connections work their way deeper into the data center, a debate is underway. Is it better to use pluggable optical modules or to embed lasers deep into advanced packages? There are issues...
View ArticleUniform Spin Qubit Devices with Tunable Coupling in an All-Silicon 300 mm...
Abstract: Larger arrays of electron spin qubits require radical improvements in fabrication and device uniformity. Here we demonstrate excellent qubit device uniformity and tunability from 300K down to...
View ArticleBuried nanomagnet realizing high-speed/low-variability silicon spin qubits:...
Abstract: “We propose a buried nanomagnet (BNM) realizing highspeed/low-variability silicon spin qubit operation, inspired by buried wiring technology, for the first time. High-speed quantum-gate...
View ArticleThe Race To Make Better Qubits
One of the big challenges in quantum computing is getting qubits to last long enough to do something useful with them. After decades of research, there now appears to be tangible progress. The...
View ArticleLight-Emitting V-Pits: An Alternative Approach toward Luminescent Indium-Rich...
Abstract: “Realization of fully solid-state white light emitting devices requires high efficiency blue, green, and red emitters. However, challenges remain in boosting the low quantum efficiency of...
View ArticleMetasurface Colloidal Quantum Dot Photodetectors
Abstract: “Efficient photodetectors that can be easily engineered for a specific spectral window are of high interest. Here, we report on the design, fabrication, and characterization of...
View ArticleQubits made by advanced semiconductor manufacturing
Abstract: “Full-scale quantum computers require the integration of millions of qubits, and the potential of using industrial semiconductor manufacturing to meet this need has driven the development of...
View ArticleUsing Reservoir Offset Voltage Of a Quantum Dot as Gate Electrode
Technical paper titled “The functions of a reservoir offset voltage applied to physically defined p-channel Si quantum dots” from researchers at Tokyo Institute of Technology and Device Technology...
View ArticleSix Qubit Processor (TU Delft, QuTech, TNO)
A new technical paper titled “Universal control of a six-qubit quantum processor in silicon” was just published by researchers at Delft University of Technology, QuTech and Netherlands Organization for...
View ArticleWeek In Review: Semiconductor Manufacturing, Test
Chinese memory chip maker YMTC and dozens of other Chinese entities are “at risk” of being added to a trade blacklist as soon as Dec. 6, a U.S. Commerce Department official said in prepared remarks...
View ArticleMetallic Behaviour of Semiconducting Colloidal Quantum Dots (RIKEN, Others)
A technical paper titled “Enabling metallic behaviour in two-dimensional superlattice of semiconductor colloidal quantum dots” was published by researchers at RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science...
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Tiny Dots, Big Impact: The Luminous World of Quantum Dots
In the early ’80s, Alexey Ekimov and Louis E. Brus independently researched semiconductor clusters, leading to the discovery of quantum dots (QDs). QDs are nanoscale semiconductor particles with unique...
View ArticleSelected I-III-VI2 Semiconductors: Synthesis, Properties, and Applications...
A technical paper titled “Selected I-III-VI2 Semiconductors: Synthesis, Properties and Applications in Photovoltaic Cells” was published by researchers at Université de Lorraine, CNRS. Abstract:...
View ArticleAnalysis of the Errors of High-Fidelity Two-Qubit Gates in Silicon Quantum...
A new technical paper titled “Assessment of the errors of high-fidelity two-qubit gates in silicon quantum dots” was published by researchers at UNSW, Diraq, Sandia National Laboratories, Keio...
View ArticleMini Review of Photodetectors and Image Sensors: Materials and Fabrication
A new technical paper titled “Image Sensors and Photodetectors Based on Low-Carbon Footprint Solution-Processed Semiconductors” was published by researchers at Cardiff University. Abstract “This...
View ArticleLoss Processes in Electrochemically Charged Semiconductor Nanocrystal Films...
A new technical paper titled “Where Do the Electrons Go? Studying Loss Processes in the Electrochemical Charging of Semiconductor Nanomaterials” was published by researchers at Delft University of...
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