The Large Hadron Collider (LHC)—an incredibly powerful superconducting machine that spans 17 miles at CERN's laboratory in Switzerland—has been shut down by a small, furry animal. The LHC is the largest and mos... Read More...
Electrical engineers from Australia's University of New South Wales (UNSW) have demonstrated the last building blocks needed to make silicon quantum computing a reality. They built a quantum logic gate in silic... Read More...
Physicists from the Australian National University used a brass mask with a circular pattern of holes of increasing size to create a spiral laser beam. The spiral laser beam was then used to create a quantu... Read More...
Three Japanese scientists were awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics for their innovation of blue LED. Blue light emitting diodes are the considered the key to today’s energy-efficient lighting.
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Agilent Technologies Inc. introduced a physics-based model for its opto model library that quickly and accurately solves the challenges posed by signal distortion in vertical cavity surface emitting lasers (VCS... Read More...