Apr 10, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Deep learning is a form of artificial intelligence transforming society by teaching computers to process information using artificial neural networks that mimic the human brain. It is now used in facial recognition, self-driving cars and even in the playing of complex games like Go. In...
Physicists discover a novel quantum state in an elemental solid
Apr 10, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Physicists have observed a novel quantum effect termed “hybrid topology” in a crystalline material. This finding opens up a new range of possibilities for the development of efficient materials and technologies for next-generation quantum science and engineering. The finding, published in Nature ("A hybrid topological...
A new coating method in mRNA engineering points the way to advanced therapies
Apr 10, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Medicine can help to treat certain illnesses, e.g., antibiotics can help overcome infections, but a new, promising field of medicine involves providing our body with the “blueprint” for how to defeat illnesses on its own. mRNA therapeutics is the delivery of messenger RNA (mRNA) molecules...
Quantum crystal of frozen electrons – the Wigner crystal
Apr 10, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Electrons – these infinitesimally small particles that are known to zip around atoms – continue to amaze scientists despite the more than a century that scientists have studied them. Now, physicists at Princeton University have pushed the boundaries of our understanding of these minute particles...
Ultrasensitive 3D plasmonic web can detect molecules at the yoctomolar level
Apr 10, 2024 (Nanowerk Spotlight) The field of surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) has long held the promise of single-molecule detection, but achieving this level of sensitivity in a reliable and reproducible manner has proven challenging. SERS relies on the dramatic electromagnetic enhancement that occurs in specific regions known as "hot...
The building block for magnetoelectric spin-orbit logic
Apr 10, 2024 (Nanowerk News) In a recent article published in Nature Communications ("Voltage-based magnetization switching and reading in magnetoelectric spin-orbit nanodevices"), an international team, led by researchers from the Nanodevices group at CIC nanoGUNE, suceeded in voltage-based magnetization switching and reading of magnetoelectric spin-orbit nanodevices. This study constitutes a...
New method of measuring qubits promises ease of scalability in a microscopic package
Apr 10, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Chasing ever-higher qubit counts in near-term quantum computers constantly demands new feats of engineering. Among the troublesome hurdles of this scaling-up race is refining how qubits are measured. Devices called parametric amplifiers are traditionally used to do these measurements. But as the name suggests, the...