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Scientists engineer a functional optical lens out of 2D materials
A team from the University of Washington and the National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan announced that it has construct…
Berkeley computer theorists show path to verifying that quantum beats classical
With true quantum computing, problems that are impractical for even the fastest supercomputers to date could be relative…
Ouster Reveals Details of New Lidar Category
The OS-1 64 contains just two custom semiconductor chips capable of firing lasers and sensing the light that reflects ba…
Researchers Create First Scalable Platform for On-chip Quantum Light Sources
The work describes a new method for creating quantum light sources on demand in any desired location on a chip, by stret…
Shedding light on Weyl fermions
Their results, which have been published in Nature Communications, could enable high-speed magneto-optical topological s…
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