Today's Tech News: Notable or Not?

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1089302 "high sensitivity sensing for weak magnetic signals at room temperature... shallow NV centers close to diamond surface greatly enhances spatial resolution, but electric or magnetic noise from unpaired electron spins at surface significantly reduces coherence time... suppressing noise requires additional microwave manipulation, overcome by covering monolayer graphene on diamond surface/ heterogeneous interface hybridization modulating density and relaxation time of surface electron spins... 2D material/ interfaces"

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1089306 "sodium-ion battery cathode: high capacity, straightforward/ efficient fabrication, but poor air stability, sluggish interfacial kinetics, detrimental phase transitions resulting in unsatisfactory cycling stability/ inferior rate capability... overcome using organic/ inorganic coating, interfacial-coating-doping, heterogeneous phase design, enabling residual alkali in-situ conversion and/ or enhanced interfacial stability, improved electrochemical reaction kinetics, mitigated phase evolutions, layered-tunnel heterostructure building"

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1088953 "liquid resins/ dual-light printing activates different chemical reactions depending on color of light used, violet = stretchy/ UV = rigid...  speed up 3D printing with built-in material control... enables flexible/ strong, complex output... at interface, molecule with both reactive groups enables much stronger connection between soft/ hard parts, can be gradual transition if we want... soft parts stretched/ bounced back, hard parts as strong as consumer products' plastic... prosthetics, flexible medical devices, stretchable electronics"

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1087393 "Hybrid Supraparticle Synthesis attachs inorganic nanoparticles to polymer microparticles' surfaces through mechanical collisions... wet chemical issues: complex multi-step/ additional costs, toxic solvents, difficult chemical bonding, overcome having nanoparticles envelop polymer microparticles like a shell by precisely controlling size ratio between particles, collision speed, rotational/ surface energy, roughness... electrodes, catalysts, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, semiconductor packaging, electrical insulators"

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1088674 "longer operation times/ lower error rates outperform superconducting systems... qubit registers created using color centers in diamond/ surrounding nuclear spins, photonic-coupled via microresonators distributed across multiple registers/ distances >20 m... 2 register entanglement, each with six qubits,  >0.9 average fidelity...germanium/ tin vacancy defects, capable serving as qubits, in detectors/ sources, high Q-factors in diamond microresonators, 12 qubits, single-qubit gate error rates <0.5%, >10 ms coherence time"

https://phys.org/news/2025-06-team-tackles-bottlenecks-dual-wavelength.html#google_vignette "no cumbersome scaffolding requiring manual removal...  single digital micromirror projects UV (solidifies final epoxy structure)/ visible light (cures sacrificial thermoset) at same time... after thermal postprocessing, printed objects placed in water-based solution where supports dissolve... reduced print time, minimal material waste, improved resolution, 1-pot single resin avoids swapping mid-print, eliminates need for manual assembly... suspensions/ overhangs, cantilevers, hinges, interlocking systems"

https://www.metaltechnews.com/story/2025/05/28/tech-bytes/a-heavy-duty-us-lithium-vanadium-battery/2301.html "stability over thousands of charge cycles, maintains superior performance at extreme temperatures including fast charging at subzero temperatures... partner US Vanadium advances circular manufacturing utilizing post-industrial waste streams... heavy-duty: industrial, construction, defense, mining, trucking"

https://www.sustainability-times.com/energy/this-jet-stores-solid-hydrogen-stellarjets-groundbreaking-tech-could-upend-100-years-of-aviation-as-we-know-it/ "enhanced safety, efficiency, sustainability... metal hydride storage: 6.6 kWh/kg energy density, 23% mass capacity, temperatures from -76 to 176 °F, pressures from 290 to 5,076 psi, refueling time <30 minutes, modular, no boil-off risk... electric turbine propulsion: 132 kW power, 1,700 N thrust, weighs 32 pounds, 14.8 inch diameter, integrated controller, distributed propulsion optimized... commercial/ military aviation, space exploration, industrial manufacturing, naval operations... inaugural flight summer, 2025"

https://phys.org/news/2025-06-sensitive-tough-photonic-devices-reality.html "precise, powerful, easier/ cheaper production at scale... devices sensitive enough to detect tiny changes prone to breakdown with even small manufacturing imperfections, overcome using subwavelength phase singularity where light's intensity drops to 0 while phase continues full cycle... 2 gold nanorod layers (in rows slightly twisted relative to each other) sandwiching thin-layer polymer in between, bottom embedded in polymer/ top exposed to air, sensing molecules... adjusting space between layers controls light interactions"

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/06/250625011632.htm "enables more powerful quantum computers, significantly more qubits... sensitive microwave amplifiers read inherently weak signals, but generate heat, causing decoherence, overcome using low-noise/ power semiconductor pulsed amplifiers... amplifier rapid activation to keeps pace with qubit readout using algorithm that improves amplifier operation... genetic programming enables amplifier smart control/ 35 ns response to incoming qubit pulse"

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1088892 "188.72 MPa tensile strength, 7781 S cm-1 electrical conductivity, 13 W m-1 K-1 thermal conductivity, scalable wet-spinning, reduced interlayer spacing, enhanced orientation, increased compactness... scalable method for assembling other nanomaterials into multifunctional fibers... smart textiles, wearables including heaters, flexible electronics"

https://techxplore.com/news/2025-06-artificial-photosynthesis-surpasses-key-efficiency.html "direct solar-to-chemical conversion approach reduces electrical resistance losses, minimizes installation footprint... 1 cm² perovskite-based photoelectrodes utilizing chlorine-doped formamidinium lead triiodide absorber layer, nickel-iron-cobalt catalysts, UV-insensitive tin oxide electron transport layers, assembled into 4×4 array... surpasses 10% commercial threshold... nickel foil/ resin encapsulation enables 140 hour continuous operation retaining 99% of initial performance... scalable to PV-size modules"

https://phys.org/news/2025-06-magnetic-chains-superconductors-heterostructure-advances.html "magnetic-superconducting hybrid systems enable topological superconductivity with potential applications in fault-tolerant quantum computing, but struggle with lattice mismatches/ complex interfacial interactions/ disorder, overcome with precise atomic-scale control over magnetic structures using sub-monolayer CrTe2/NbSe2 heterostructure... creates stripe-like patterns with edges hosting localized magnetic moments, effectively forming 1D magnetic chains... tunable periodic stress-induced structure"

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1088891 "exciplex (lower-energy intermediate state) upconversion OLEDs limited by need for carefully matched donor/ acceptor materials enabling efficient energy transfer, overcome inserting spacer layer between donor/ acceptor materials enabling wider selection of materials... 0.064% efficient exciplex formation, together with raised energy sufficiently... OLEDs for displays, lighting systems, wearables, foldables, portable electronics"

https://techxplore.com/news/2025-06-component-chain-constraints-fast-ev.html "enables superior energy density maintaining significant amount after 1,000s cycles charging to 80%  in 10 minutes... copper anode/ aluminum cathode are heavy, overcome using polymer sandwiched between copper or aluminum thin film layers, overall 85% cheaper using 80% less metals/ roll-to-roll fabrication, 27% more energy, performs as well as conventional counterpart at 1/4 the weight, enabling farther distance on same charge... polymer acts like circuit breaker eliminating 90% of lithium battery short-circuit fires"

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1088941 "Sunlab's multi-junction photonic power converters turning laser into electrical power... IR has low attenuation losses/ km enabling dramatic improvement in power/ data transmission >km... stacked semiconductor junctions absorb more light to convert to electric power, enabling higher efficiencies/ voltages... >2 volts at maximum power point with 53% efficiency... future: laser power in free space simultaneously powering/ communicating"

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1088652 "single-molecule magnet retains magnetic memory up to 100°K... store about 3 TB data/ square cm... single-molecule magnets store information individually enabling ultra-high data densities... rare earth dysprosium between 2 nitrogen atoms arranged almost in straight line, boosting magnetic performance... bent/ irregular shape overcome adding alkene acting like molecular pin, binding to dysprosium holding structure in place... molecule with linear arrangement enables magnetic memory at such high temperatures... huge data centers"

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1088149 "90% less power, reduces qubit decoherence, more powerful quantum computers... extremely sensitive microwave amplifiers ensures weak signals accurately detected/ read, but delicate, overcome by reducing heat since pulse-operated: activated only when needed for qubit amplification rather than being always switched on... smart amplifier uses algorithm improving operation... responds much faster to the incoming qubit pulse, in just 35 nanoseconds"

  https://phys.org/news/2025-06-metal-frameworks-metallic-pave-paths.html   "MOF's low electrical conductivity caused by defects overcome using AI/ robot-assisted synthesis enabling over crystallinity/ domain size control, reducing defect density... thin film MOF applied to substrate... >200 Siemens/ m conductivities at room temperature (higher ones at -173.15°C)... material features Dirac cones similar to as in graphene, enabling spin liquids, where quantum spins remain disordered even at low temperatures/ Klein tunneling... sensors, quantum materials, functional materials"

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1088673 "embedded in building’s water loop system, scalable, low-energy... 5-nm platinum metastructure electrode's short voltage pulse enables reversible copper deposition, switching surface’s IR emissivity which remains in chosen state for >30 days... surface raised internal temperatures up to 45.4°C in summer/ cooled by 5°C at night, annual energy savings up to 21.4%, up to 95.8 GJ reductions in cold climates... industrial HVAC, data centers, off-grid greenhouses, smart buildings... durability, bistability, spectral selectivity" Related: Anisotropic Hygroscopic Hydrogels Enable High-Power, Self-Sustained Passive Daytime Cooling https://bioengineer.org/anisotropic-hygroscopic-hydrogels-enable-high-power-self-sustained-passive-daytime-cooling/

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1088628 "overcomes need to applying large external magnetic fields by layering graphene on top of CrPS₄ magnetic layer, causing electron flow in graphene to becomes dependent on electrons’ spin direction... spin currents topologically’ protected, staying intact over 10s of μm long distances without losing spin information... ultrathin quantum circuits, efficient/ coherent transfer of quantum information through electron spins... essential building blocks in quantum computing, seamlessly linking qubits together within quantum circuits"

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1088501 "low noise, room-temperature quantum emitters in h-BN films scalably grown using pulsed laser deposition with added carbon atoms generating defects serving as quantum solid-state single-photon emitters... low-temperature 1-step synthesis... high brightness, strong polarization, robust photostability during continuous operation... integrate into chip-based quantum devices/ sensors, for quantum-based communication, information processing, sensing"

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1088523 "few atoms thick magnets enable smaller, more powerful devices, but at extremely cold temperatures, overcome by combining with topological insulator allowing electrons' smooth flow along its surface... magnetism stronger/ more stable when the 2 layered together, even at higher temperatures of that of liquid nitrogen's 77°K... stronger, more stable nanoscale magnets... future: room-temperature operation" Related: A more versatile and powerful foundation for future photonic technologies https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1088765

https://techxplore.com/news/2025-06-thermoelectric-permanent-magnet-power-density.html "56.7 mW/cm2 transverse thermoelectric room temperature power density... can be utilized everywhere magnets used... complex module structure separating heat/ charge current circuits overcome using transverse thermoelectric effect: charge current generated in orthogonal direction to applied heat current... but, transverse thermoelectric materials' zT low compared to longitudinal ones, overcome achieving 2-orders magnitude higher zT at alternately stacked samarium-cobalt magnet/ bismuth-antimony-tellurium interface"

https://techxplore.com/news/2025-06-faster-multiplexing-6g-earth-orbit.html#google_vignette "time-division Multiple-Input Multiple-Output phased-array receivers operate faster, low power, exceptional area efficiency... reduces circuit complexity including for non-terrestrial nodes, by reusing signal paths through fast switching, record-setting 38.4 Gbps data rate across 8 streams in 65 nm CMOS... seamless integration between terrestrial/ satellite networks... overcomes circuit complexity growing proportionally to product of antenna quantity and MIMO streams, using time-division MIMO... IoT, LEO satellites, mobile"

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1087268 "scalable, −46 ppm/°C temperature coefficient wide thermal range, operates at 7–15 GHz (above 6 GHz), insertion loss as low as 1.47 dB, 3-dB bandwidths up to 373 MHz, high signal fidelity, wide bandwidth balances speed/ coverage, k² ~ 8.9% electromechanical coupling... filtering too bulky for mobile, suffers at high frequencies. fragile. overcome using 128°Y-cut lithium niobate... 6G smartphones, routers, aerospace, autonomous systems, sensors, AI-powered applications, immersive extended reality, hyper-connected IoT"

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1087244 "better understanding of the mechanism underlying successful deep learning leads to an efficient pruning of unnecessary parameters in a deep architecture without affecting its performance. It all hinges on an initial understanding of what happens in deep networks, how they learn and what parameters are essential to its learning... prune up to 90% certain layers' parameters without hindering system’s accuracy... better AI systems memory usage/ energy consumption"

https://phys.org/news/2025-06-quantum-random-access-memory-based.html#google_vignette "simultaneously retrieve data from multiple locations leveraging coherent superposition... stores large amounts/ different data types more effectively, boosting quantum computer speed/ effectiveness... transmon superconducting qubits robust against some noise types, direct surface acoustic wave phonons in desired locations... integrating transmon-controlled phonon phase gate into interferometer enables single phonon routing based on transmon's quantum state... QRAM realized connecting many routers in tree-like design"

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1086924 "considers interactions among multiple road users, social sensitivity... integrates: (1) Individual Risk Assessment for each road user, assessing speed, distances from one another, behavioral predictability, (2) Socially Weighted Risk Mapping, (3) Behavioral Belief Encoding predicting action's affect on overall traffic situation... evaluated using 2K benchmark traffic scenarios... better operational efficiency, driving tasks 13.9% faster on average... flexible/ adaptable to different regulations/ social norms to drive like locals"

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1087130 "6 thin lasers pin cloud of 10s of 1,000s rubidium atoms in place at few billionths degree above absolute zero forming Bose-Einstein Condensate, next, jiggle atoms using laser light so each atom superpositions so simultaneously in 2 places at once. each part following different path... when parts nap back together form unique pattern indicating acceleration experienced, based on multi-step laser adjustments guided by machine learning... precise navigation of vehicles such as cars, submarines, spacecraft"

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1088318 "electron spin on catalyst surfaces fundamental in how atoms bond/ react... accelerates reactions such as oxygen reduction/ evolution (hydrogen production), CO2 conversion, nitrogen fixation, by fine-tuning methods such as atomic doping, magnetic field modulation, toggling between high/ low-spin states, crystal structure tuning, applying magnetic fields. defect engineering... integrates principles from spintronics into electrocatalysis... fuel cells, metal–air batteries, electrolyzers, converting CO₂ into useful fuels/ chemicals"

https://phys.org/news/2025-06-ultra-thin-polymer-membranes-enable.html "irregular/ disordered pore structures leads to trade-off between selectivity/ permeability... overcome using interfacial 3-μm-thick polymeric membrane cross-linking separation layer on top of polymeric supporting layer... enables 82.38% vanadium flow battery energy efficiency, 300 mA/cm2 current density... tune separation layer  thickness/ morphology by varying cross-linking time/ types of agents... precise angstrom-scale ion sieving, high ion selectivity/ low resistance... membrane-based separation, energy storage"

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1088224 "single high-fidelity quantum state prepared from many noisy ones, but computationally expensive requiring many qubits... overcome using level-zero version of this distillation, in which a fault-tolerant circuit is developed at the physical qubit or zeroth level as opposed to higher, more abstract levels. In addition to requiring far fewer qubits, this new method led to a roughly several dozen times decrease in spatial and temporal overhead compared with that of the traditional version in numerical simulations"

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1088085 "high cost of gallium nitride semiconductor and its fabrication into devices, overcome by building many tiny transistors on GaN chip surface, cutting out each individual transistor, then bonding just necessary number onto silicon chip at low-temperature... cost minimal since only tiny amount of GaN material added to chip, but device receives significant performance boost while reducing overall operating temperature... smartphones with improved call quality, boosted wireless bandwidth, enhance connectivity, long battery life"

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1088089 "tiny fraction of degree rotation translates to µm-scale fiber displacements, enabling: mm-scale changes in resonator geometry, pm-scale tuning of its spectral/ free spectral range characteristics... van der Waals forces keep fibers in direct contact, contributing to resonator formation over sub-mm regions... micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) integration, communication, quantum information processors, low-repetition-rate frequency comb generators, tuneable delay lines, nonlocal optofluidic sensors"

https://phys.org/news/2025-06-lanthanide-doped-nanomaterials-horizons-advanced.html "lattice with pronounced local crystal field distortions enables >500 magnitude of nonlinear (abrupt, avalanche-like) emission output surge once light excitation intensity surpasses critical threshold... ideal for ultrasensitive detection/ advanced imaging... orders of magnitude more sensitive... spatially distinct nonlinear emission patterns within individual nanocrystals, allowing imaging with resolution beyond physical dimensions of emitters themselves... super-resolution imaging, highly sensitive chemical/ bio -sensing."

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1087933 "laser light inside thin glass fibers mimics how AI processes information... overcomes bandwidth, data throughput, power consumption limits... amplifies tiny differences between intense fs laser pulses/ optical fiber via Extreme Learning Machine nonlinear interactions inspired by neural networks to make them discernable... pulses contain large number of wavelengths, sent into fiber with relative delay encoded according to an image containing information classifying handwritten digits with >91% accuracy"

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1088061 "creating ideal high-density nanotube structures is difficult, overcome using machine-learning to model, characterize, simulate, predict nanoparticle catalyst growth during nanotube fabrication... keeps fabrication cool/ connected... future: not all of those 100 billion nanoparticles will grow nanotubes, and we are working to discover which ones act as seeds, and why"

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1087639 "each pixel in silicon image sensor receives around a third of available light, overcome using lead halide perovskite semiconductor stacked pixels utilizing every photon for color recognition... perovskite sensors' hyperspectral imaging control wavelength range absorbed by each layer... perovskite containing slightly more iodine ions absorbs red, add more bromine for green, chlorine more blue, without any need for filters... smartphones, medical analysis, automated environmental/ agricultural monitoring"

https://phys.org/news/2025-06-scientists-uncover-magnetic-field-ultrafast.html "suppressing slow processes boosts spin-based data processing to femtosecond speeds... magnetic fields control spin angular momentum/ dynamic spin control in vdW ferromagnet Fe₃GeTe₂... 7-tesla magnetic field accelerates demagnetization process by 60%, simultaneously suppressing demagnetization efficiency by 34%... mechanism based on spin entropy variation within 3-temperature model... high-speed magnetic storage and logic devices operating at or near room temperature where effect was more pronounced"

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1087750 "overcomes high-density channel crosstalk, low-latency signal synchronization, difficult large-scale integration, using integrated microcavity optical frequency comb multi-wavelength light sources, reconfigurable high-performance optical computing chip, scalable high-precision driving system... 50 GHz modulation frequency, >2560 TOPS peak performance, >3.2 TOPS/W energy efficiency... >90% improved universal error correction wavelength-channel consistency, >40 nm device bandwidth... optical computing"

https://news.mit.edu/2025/closing-superconducting-semiconductors-0617 "less wiring linking ambient temperature electronics/ low-temperature superconducting circuits... larger/, stable, streamlined systems... 4 energy-efficient rapid single flux quantum AC-to-DC diode-based superconducting rectifiers integrated on chip within cryogenic environment... overcomes noise/ heat from having to use numerous connecting wires connecting cold quantum chips to room-temperature electronics... might also help insulate qubit signals... highly energy-efficient, superconductivity-based supercomputers"

https://phys.org/news/2025-06-ultra-thin-metallic-oxide-reveals.html#goog_fullscreen_ad "hybrid molecular beam epitaxy method used for growing metallic but nonmagnetic ultra-thin RuO2 layers, then applying epitaxial strain inducing altermagnetic state, which includes anomalous Hall effect but without having to use extreme magnetic fields to create it... magnetic effects in films just two-unit cells thick (less than a billionth of a meter)., and despite being so thin, the material remained highly metallic and structurally stable. AI, quantum computing, spintronics, low-power electronics" Related: Breakthrough in spintronic devices for ultra-thin quantum circuits https://www.tudelft.nl/en/2025/tnw/breakthrough-in-spintronic-devices-for-ultra-thin-quantum-circuits

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1087644 "preserves high sensitivity... small, reduced complexity/ energy consumption, multi-functional... resonators detect signals via shifts in stiffness/ stable drive frequency limiting overlap/ signal confusion... instead of relying on energy redistribution, new approach monitors energy dissipation... any resonator-based measurement system: accelerometers, electric field sensors, force detectors... autonomous vehicles, wearable medical monitors, industrial automation systems, aerospace" Related: Mini machines, big impact: Tackling distortion in PT-symmetric MEMS https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1087099

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1087638 "non-line-of-sight signals leading to positioning errors, overcome with software-generated virtual nodes derived from real 5G measurements, combining time-of-arrival data, particle filtering, stability statistical test... accurately/ efficiently recalculates user location, >21% reduced positioning errors, nearly 77% less computation time... no: large datasets, external sensors... integrates particle filters/ Augmented Dickey-Fuller test... smart cities, autonomous vehicles, smart delivery systems"

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1086716 "low-energy light molecules upconverted into single high-energy particle... excited state quickly hops around 3 anthracene molecules arranged like antennas in 3 different directions around central boron atom, letting it sample larger space/ multiple configurations without losing energy... low-viscous medium/ orientation favorable for triplet-triplet annihilation enables 20% faster energy fusion rate... sensors, cancer therapy/ diagnostics using harmless low-energy light/ in-situ upconversion, better solar power harnessing"

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1087118 "nanophotonic silicon chips based on erbium-based silicon quantum light sources... enhanced erbium's interaction with light using nanoelectromechanics, low power integrated nanophotonics, nanolithography, quantum systems, standard optical fibers... implant erbium atoms into tiny, ultra-pure silicon structures (improving performance) using advanced ion beam techniques... quantum devices that can be integrated into today’s technology"

https://phys.org/news/2025-06-universal-framework-enables-custom-3d.html "snapshot 3D multispectral imaging without spectral filters, axial scanning, digital reconstruction, phase masks at pupil plane constraining complexity/ mathematical representation... engineering through passive surface series optimized using deep learning, forming physical diffractive optical processors approximating any linear transformation between 3D optical intensity distributions in input/ output volumes... compact multispectral imagers, high-throughput 3D microscopy platforms, optical data encoding/ transmission"

https://thequantuminsider.com/2025/06/05/oxford-quantum-circuits-oqc-publishes-quantum-computing-roadmap-sets-sights-on-50000-logical-qubits-by-2034/ "10x advantage in physical-to-logical qubit efficiency/ high-fidelity gate speeds... numerous noisy/ faulty physical qubits, before they’re corrected for errors, overcome using far fewer physical qubits generating each error-corrected logical qubit, enabling scale...  99.8% 2-qubit fidelity in 25 billionths of second among the fastest and most accurate gates ever recorded for fault-tolerant quantum systems... financial services, national security, fraud detection, cybersecurity, drug discovery, quantum chemistry" 

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/innovative-ice-battery-system-cool-buildings-lower-energy-costs/ "New York's Eleven Madison skyscraper air-conditioned using about 500K pounds of ice created every night when cost is low... then, during day when price is high, building cooled with previous night's ice, lowering cooling costs up to 40%... buildings won't need to draw from peaker plants... new materials that don't need to get as cold as ice, but can still keep buildings cool... water, add other elements/ molecules, control that temperature basically anywhere we want it, in the zero to 20°C range... cool homes"

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2482057-qubit-breakthrough-could-make-it-easier-to-build-quantum-computers/ "enable much smaller and cheaper error-free quantum computers... qubit intrinsic redundancy instead of more of them... superconducting cavity qubit with microwave radiative photons trapped inside, with information encoded multimode into their quantum states, where several of photon’s properties used at once storing information, enhancing qubit resiliency... computers up to 50X smaller, consuming 10X less power... future:, manipulating information stored within qubits during calculations, with >100 qubits by 2029"

  https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1087395 "better/ more compact electronic devices... safely/ cost-effectively grow 1-atom layer SnS sheets on silicon wafers, conduct selectricity/ responds to light... challenging to selectively form SnS from base tin/ sulfur, sometimes producing SnS2 instead, overcome heating sulfur/ tin using low sulfur levels relative to tin which is positioned further away and which mostly sublimes away leaving SnS outer monolayer film behind... linking ferroelectrics, spintronics, valleytronics... light/ tiny spins for faster/ more efficient computers"

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1087410 "design rules: non-overlapping placement, power rail alignment, precise cell pin alignment with power rails, aggregating undersized cells horizontally... Mixed Integer Linear Programming iterative mathematical optimization balances computational efficiency/ solution accuracy... 35+ cells incidences solved < 5 minutes... prioritizing uniform cell heights/ balancing aspect ratios... bridges theoretical modeling/ industrial requirements... high-performance semiconductor devices, navigating post-Moore’s Law scaling challenges"

https://phys.org/news/2025-06-3d-device-white-noise-acoustic.html "struggle designing systems working on wide range of frequencies, most requiring active devices/ resonance-based, overcome taking in broadband white-noise signals from point source radiating sound equally in all directions/ scattering so different sound frequencies/ emitted... computational morphogenesis: fully controlled, broadband auditory wave sensing/ manipulation in free spaces, similar to biological systems, utilizing algorithms for structural optimization/ finite element analysis generating complex shapes"

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1087333 "ultrafast laser 2-step fabrication creates/ monitors individual Group-IV quantum defects in diamond that can store/ transmit information using quantum physics... stably connects information stored in electron spin with light particles... focused ion beam platform  directs individual tin ions into exact positions within diamond with nanometre accuracy... ultrafast laser pulse annealing gently excites tiny regions of diamond... in-situ control/ feedback during defect creation... secure communication, distributed quantum computing"

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1087305 "better speed/ security... zero electric permittivity/ unique magneto-optic property generates stable optical spatiotemporal vortices... tuning magnetic photonic crystal parameters to critical phase, transitions to metamaterial... light pulse hits material, reflects as spatiotemporal vortex, exhibiting simultaneous swirling in space/ time, carrying transverse orbital angular momentum... exceptional stability... bridges metamaterials, topological physics, structured light fields... optical communications, biomedical imaging, nanotechnology"

https://phys.org/news/2025-06-ion-advances-ground-quantum.html "electric fields trap/ move up to 200 ion qubits, lasers manipulate their atomic/ motional quantum states, enabling long period quantum coherence... multiple operational zones connected via junctions... reduces capacitance/ subsequently lowers power losses when the necessary 150 to 300 V are applied... parallel gate operations, simultaneously controlling qubits along different directions in space... entangle many qubits in single group (squeezing) altering scale of ions' motion/ position in spin-dependent manner"

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1086868 "molybdenum disulfide for n-type/ tungsten diselenide for p-type transistors... metal-organic chemical vapor deposition grows large molybdenum disulfide/ tungsten diselenide sheets fabricating >1K of each type of transistor... adjusted threshold voltages n-/ p-type transistors... low-supply voltages, up to 25 kHz frequencies... one instruction set computer performs simple logic operations"

https://techxplore.com/news/2025-06-high-dac-paves-faster-energy.html "Imec's wireline 7-bit 150 GSa/s Digital-to-Analog Converter fabricated in 5nm FinFET CMOS process, data rates up to 300 Gb/s using PAM-4 modulation... enables sophisticated signal processing supporting transmission over physical links... reduced:  signal degradation/ power inefficiencies... reduced number of unit cells from 127 to 34, minimizing switching activity, lowering power consumption (to 621 mW at 0.9V and 0.96V supplies) without compromising speed, with decreased parasitic effects"

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1087067 "integrates high: electrical insulation/ thermal conductivity by bonding kg-scale carbon quantum dots/ polyetherimide diamine monomer... forms crosslinked network, combining Coloumb blockade effect trapping free electrons, extending unbound electron movement trajectory... 200℃ electrical resistivity, 3.6 J cm-3 energy density, >90% discharged energy efficiency at 200 ℃, 0.65 W m-1 K-1 PEI-NH2-CQD thermal conductivity... scalable, high-temperature dielectric energy storage applications"

https://techxplore.com/news/2025-06-optical-neural-partial-differential-equations.html "current computational techniques time-consuming/ expensive, overcome by encoding equations in light wave's intensity property, then phase feeding them into diffractive optical neural networks/ optical matrix multipliers... as wave passes through, intensity gradually shifts/ changes until representing solution... takes the spatiotemporal data of an input physical quantity, which is a function of positions and time, to predict the spatiotemporal data of an output physical quantity as a function of positions and time" Related: Control and enhancement of optical nonlinearities in plasmonic semiconductor nanostructures for future reconfigurable optical neural networks https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1087065

https://phys.org/news/2025-06-chip-photonic-qubit-enables-gkp.html "scalable, many photons' superpositions encoding information in error-resistant manner... well-suited for networking across chips using standard fiber connections... photon-number-resolving detectors with >99% detection efficiencies, ultra-low-loss silicon nitride waveguides on 300 mm wafer platforms, optical packaging... enables deterministic operations... loss reduction/ performance improvement across chip fabrication, component design, and detector efficiency"

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1086431 "RPM stably controlled according to input voltage... catalyst metal residue from manufacturing process degrade CNT electrical properties, overcome using CNT purification utilizing fourth state of matter liquid crystal alignment principle naturally resolving strong aggregation, removing metallic particles without damaging CNT's nanostructure... purification significantly improves conductivity... also applicable to conductive materials for batteries, pellicles for semiconductors, cables for robots"

https://phys.org/news/2025-06-ai-waveguides-pave-generation-photonic.html "no: complex designs, specialized materials, sophisticated fabrication... series of thin, transparent diffractive layers optimized by deep learning collectively sculpting/ guiding beam, filtering specific light modes, splitting into different channels based on polarization/ spectrum, bending around sharp corners, in cascaded manner... also mode-specific polarization control maintaining desired polarization state of certain spatial modes while filtering out others... telecommunications, photonic circuits, compact/ advanced sensors"

https://www.brown.edu/news/2025-05-21/holography "illuminate target using IR, imaging using visible light quantum-entangled with the IR probe, capturing both intensity/ phase, enabling holographic images capturing object's contour depths, for accurate 3D images using indirect photons... IR for safe, skin-penetrating biological imaging, but doing so conventionally requires expensive IR detectors for imaging... instead, inexpensive silicon visible light detectors... using 2 slightly different wavelengths creates 25X longer synthetic wavelength"

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1086790 "precision achieved using trapped calcium ion qubit... unlike using lasers, quantum state controlled using electronic microwave signals for greater stability, lower cost, greater robustness... ease of integration into ion trapping chips, room temperature, without magnetic shielding... future: extend to 2-qubit gates which function together"

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1086540 "biosafety level 1 electricity-producing bacteria using premade blend of 15 probiotics... engineered in bacteria- compatible electrode surface, using polymer/ some nanoparticles improving/ boosting probiotic electrocatalytic behavior... modified electrode was porous/ rough, excellent for bacteria to attach/ grow, and improved microorganisms’ electrogenic capability... coating dissolvable paper with low pH-sensitive polymer increases voltage output/ duration. working only in acidic: polluted area/ human digestive system"

https://phys.org/news/2025-06-electron-shower-technique-advanced-piezoelectric.html#google_vignette "Synchronized Floating Potential HiPIMS: argon ions ignited, then shot in short, high‑energy pulses at aluminum nitride, knocking out atoms subsequently landing on substrate, forming thin film... applying voltage to substrate accelerates film‑forming target ions, but also process gas argon ions, causing electrical breakdown, overcome having electrons reach target faster than much larger ions, so that only the right ions end up in the thin film... RF filters, sensors, actuators, tiny energy converters, future: quantum"

https://phys.org/news/2025-06-nonreciprocal-cavity-magnonics-device.html "alters light pulse velocity without compromising transmission efficiency.... hybridized system: dielectric resonator's photon mode/ magnetic yttrium iron garnet sphere's magnon mode, where magnon mode's chirality is harnessed, inducing nonreciprocity enabled by an additional dissipative coupling introduced via common microstrip... light allowed propagation in both directions but at different speeds... high-speed microwave communication, quantum information processing, neuromorphic computing"

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1086209 "no: costly, unwieldy, slower coating under vacuum... liquid-based chemical conversion coating with cavitation bubbles... corrosion resistance to chlorides (salt)/ undesirable mechanical properties...  jets of bubbles fired at surfaces/ same jets exposed to ultrasound waves... subsequent cavitation collapse forms thick, even magnesium phosphate films... reinforcing lightweight materials in EVs"

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1086591 "8.4 X 20 mm 8-element antenna-in-package radio in mobile devices, data rates >100 Gbps... sub-THz D-band (110–170 GHz), with wider bandwidth necessary for ultra-high-speed, high-capacity... overcomes free space propagation losses/ difficulties implementing amplifiers/ switches... injection-locked tripling phase shifter eliminating need for local oscillator buffers... bi-active sub-harmonic mixer... 25.7 dBm effective radiated power... mobile VR/ XR in medical operating rooms, immersive entertainment, smartphones"

https://www.psi.ch/en/news/science-features/stabilising-fleeting-quantum-states-with-light "alters microscopic structure, electronic interactions/ symmetry, for metastable non-equilibrium electronic state... 1D cuprate chain units hold high density of electronic charge/ ladders relatively empty, a simplified platform to understand higher-dimensional systems... at equilibrium, symmetry prevents charge movement between the 2 units... laser pulse breaks symmetry allowing quantum tunneling from chains to ladders, turned off creates long-lived state... ultrafast optoelectronics, lossless electronics, high-capacity batteries"

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1086381 "joint project: Sony's advanced semiconductor processing/ NICT's high-precision crystal growth... quantum dot optical gain medium as light-emitting materials... Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers operate at near-IR region, but need for long wavelength for existing fiber optics involves increased complexity, overcome growing 99% reflective semiconductor multilayer film. strictly controlling ratio of materials, strain-compensation cancels internal crystal strain increasing QD density... tunnel junction current injection" Related: Affordable laser could be mass-produced for use in self-driving cars and fiber optics https://phys.org/news/2025-06-laser-mass-cars-fiber-optics.html

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1086416 "cheap/ flexible single-mode waveguides couple light from external laser/ distribute within system, compatible with electrical circuits... low polarization-dependent loss/ differential group delay, minimizing distortions... consistent insertion loss/ mode field dimensions between waveguides, so are energy-efficient optical interconnects... >20 dB polarization extinction ratio across all CWDM4 wavelengths, no power degradation even after 6 hours, minimal heating concerns... high-performance computing, data centers"

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1086058 "doped indium oxide with gallium suppressing oxygen vacancies, improving transistor reliability... channel region of gate-all-around transistor atomic-layer deposition coated with InGaOx thin film, then film heated transforming it into crystalline structure needed for electron mobility... 44.5 cm2/Vs mobility... stable under applied stress for nearly 3 hours operation... high computational field-effect transistors, for such applications as big data and artificial intelligence"

https://phys.org/news/2025-06-programmable-solution-higher-wireless-communication.html "single-chip microwave photonics fully integrates high-speed modulators, optical filters, photodetectors, transfer-printed lasers... no bulky/ power-hungry components... overcomes signal processing complexity, high transmission losses, power-hungry electronics... Microwave photonics: lower loss, higher bandwidth, improved energy efficiency... reconfigurable modulator/ programmable optical filter, enabling efficient signal modulation/ filtering with reduced signal loss... tunable indium phosphide optical amplifier"

https://news.mit.edu/2025/physicists-observe-new-form-magnetism-0605 "combines ferromagnetism/ antiferromagnetism... 2D nickel iodide crystals at 60°K where spins on nickel atoms form spiral-like configurations that are spin switchable applying small electric field... orders magnitude more data packs onto device... electron’s spin initial direction correlated to handedness of light used to excite... saves 5 orders magnitude of energy... future: finding a material with these properties, at room temperature... then we can apply this to a spintronic device"

https://techxplore.com/news/2025-06-sustainable-batteries-electric-vehicles-tomorrow.html "dry mixture: active material, conductive carbon black, binders... calender unit generates shear forces in roller gap (nip), anchoring active material particles/ conductive carbon black, causing binder to form fibrils ( fibrillation)... supported by calender rollers, result is dry electrode layer, stable/ high-performance electrodes produced in roll-to-roll continuous process... patented, scalable, easy integration into existing production... licensed to leading European automaker... lithium-ion, sodium-ion and solid-state batteries"

https://phys.org/news/2025-06-bigger-molecules-quantum-longer.html "vibrations normally disrupting electron flow became less active or even vanish, stabilizing charge migration instead of disrupting it... laser pulses that trigger/ steer electron motion inside molecules, can enable real-time bond breaking or forming, leading to design of new chemicals, if electrons stay in sync long enough for these thing to occur... highly targeted drugs, new materials with tailor-made properties, solar energy harvesting, quantum computing"

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1086217 "quantum states are more stable/ resilient if in the structure of the material used in qubits, and are called topological excitations... engineer robust topological excitations by harnessing magnetic interactions... developed new tool calculating how strongly a material exhibits topological behavior, to guide discovery of more exotic materials... next-generation quantum computer platforms, built on materials that are naturally resistant to the kind of disturbances that plague current systems" Related: Quantum state lifetimes extended by laser-triggered electron tunneling in cuprate ladders https://phys.org/news/2025-06-quantum-state-lifetimes-laser-triggered.html

https://oilprice.com/Company-News/StellarJet-Unveils-Hydrogen-Aviation-Breakthrough.html "two transformative technologies: (1) solid-metal-hydride: 23% hydrogen by weight/ 6.6 kWh/kg energy density, (2) Electric Ducted Fan, 132 kW/ 1,700 N of thrust at 14.7 kg, 375 mm duct diameter optimized for distributed electric thrust design... operating at 20-350 bar/ -60°C to +80°C, <30 minute refueling time, compact, certifiable storage addresses liquid hydrogen’s cost challenges/ safety (eliminates boil-off risks)... debut sometime after summer 2025, after scaling production/ building hydrogen refueling infrastructure"

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1085460 "complex/ expensive fabrication overcome using cost-efficient semi-automated micro-opto-electro-mechanical system grating scanner in an external optical cavity... high brilliance/ spectral tunability enables FTIR spectroscopy inline measurements... industry-ready, couples modules with complementary spectral ranges, economies of scale, pick-and-place instead of assembly by hand... combines multiple laser sources into multi-core... spectral measurement >1 million wavenumbers/ second... many spectroscopy applications"

https://phys.org/news/2025-06-transparent-graphene-stable-responsive-applications.html "film's transparency changes depending on light intensity... using dispersants to keep graphene from adhering together messed up its beneficial properties, overcome using photocurable graphene-dispersed colloid (storable >1 year) for easily manufactured graphene dispersed films/ molds... UV converts colloidal layer into hard film... scalable since continuous process... lasers, optics, displays, smart optical sensors, AI/ photonic materials/ communication, film protecting eyes/ equipment from lasers"

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1085969 "metalens mass produced using lithium niobate: starts with silicon master mold, solution containing lithium niobate crystal precursors stamped while still liquid (similar to Gutenberg's printing press), heated to 600°C, it takes on the precise crystalline structure that enables photon manipulation. More cost-effective and faster to fabricate than any previous lithium niobate devices. Suitable for mass production as molds can be reused many times... metalens apps:  cheap night vision, solar cells, holographic authentication, industry"

https://techxplore.com/news/2025-06-intelligent-sensors-energy-enabling-efficient.html "Sensing Parametric Ising Node, developed using Ising model... no toxic lithium or any other type of batteries for power, no periodic maintenance... makes accurate decisions on its own, responding to multiple data sources simultaneously... cold-chain wastage reduction... allows centralized AI/  machine learning to process unprecedented volumes wireless sensing data from multiple sensors... central node will not need deep use of cloud resources and will have a much clearer and more accurate view of what is going on"

https://phys.org/news/2025-06-tabletop-particle-blaster-tiny-nozzles.html "microtarget with tiny nozzle-like features irradiated... no: flat targets reach energy limits <100 MeV... micronozzle enables sustained, stepwise proton acceleration within powerful quasi-static electric field created inside target... micronozzle (power lens) focuses incident laser energy onto solid hydrogen rod placed near nozzle neck maximizing proton yield... laser-ignition nuclear fusion, proton cancer therapy, probe matter under ultra-strong magnetic fields under extreme astrophysical conditions"

https://phys.org/news/2025-06-laser-smaller-penny-ultrafast.html "no: bulky/ expensive equipment to achieve delicate laser-wave control... measures by precisely changing its color across broad light spectrum at about 10 quintillion times/ second... made with lithium niobate, uses Pockels effect, changing material's refractive index when electric field present... Pound-Drever-Hall (PDH) laser frequency locking, narrowing down, stabilizing, reducing laser's noise for optical clocks... LiDAR system on fast-spinning disk"

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1084679 "combines semiconductor/ magnet properties... (Ga,Mn)As exhibit low Curie temperature, limiting use in spintronics even while adding Fe to narrow bandgap, but doing so while maintaining crystallinity proved difficult, restricting attainable Curie temperature... overcome using vicinal GaAs (100) substrates with high 10° off-angle... large magnetic moment per Fe atom (4.5 μB/atom), which is close to the ideal value for Fe³⁺ ions in a zinc blended crystal structure (5 μB/atom)... spin-functional room temperature semiconductors"

https://phys.org/news/2025-05-quantum-circuits-diode-framework-thermal.html#google_vignette "managing heat at nanoscale akin to Ebers-Moll model in electronics, simplifying complex transistor behaviors into understandable, manageable forms... quantum thermal transistor consisting of two quantum 2-level systems (qubits) interacting with a three-level system (qutrit), which collectively mimic the behavior of a traditional electronic transistor, but with heat instead of electric current... equivalent model composed of 2 quantum thermal diodes connected analogous to that in classical Ebers-Moll model"

https://phys.org/news/2025-04-advanced-aerogel-composite-extreme-thermal.html "expandable graphite interfacial bonding agent enhances structural integrity/ thermal deformation resistance across wide temperature range... precursor impregnation/ in-situ dual-morphology parallel growth technique for ceramic-based aerogel composites, enables simultaneous dense silicon carbide coating formation/ nanowire network within carbon fiber structure, improving oxidation resistance/ ablation performance, retaining lightweight structure, mechanical strength, and excellent thermal insulation properties" Related: Cristobalite-suppressed Al-SiO2 ceramic coatings: DFT guided nanoparticle design for durable oxidation resistance https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1086421