In a bold challenge to silicon s long-held dominance in electronics, Penn State researchers have built the world s first ...

Take one atom of the element antimony, use an ion beam to shoot it into a silicon substrate, and you just may be on your way to building a working quantum computer. That’s according to ...

A team of Australian engineers is claiming it has made the first working quantum bit (qubit) fashioned out of a single phosphorous atom, embedded on a conventional silicon chip. This breakthrough ...

video: Building a silicon quantum computer chip atom by atom. view more Credit: University of Melbourne. Quantum computers could be constructed cheaply and reliably using a new technique perfected ...

The donor atom—in this case, antimony (Sb) —carries one more electron (five) than a silicon atom (four). Because electrons pair up, the odd Sb electron remains free.

Now, researchers at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) have brought a twist to the famous Schrödinger’s cat thought ...

Physicists have observed a new kind of interaction that can arise between electrons in a single-atom silicon transistor, offering a more complete understanding of the mechanisms that govern ...

The branding strategy means Intel will aggressively develop and promote silicon for small devices. But this isn't the PC industry. Brooke Crothers writes about mobile computer systems, including ...

Take one atom of the element antimony, use an ion beam to shoot it into a silicon substrate, and you just may be on your way to building a working quantum computer.