Sunday, April 12, 2015

Performance and durability combine in liquid crystal transistors

Researchers have designed a smectic liquid crystal that overcomes many of the challenges posed by organic field effect transistor materials.


Electrical control of quantum bits in silicon paves the way to large quantum computers

Researchers have encoded quantum information in silicon using simple electrical pulses for the first time, bringing the construction of affordable large-scale quantum computers one step closer to reality.