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“Achievement can be applied to speed up quantum computers and design new quantum technological devices Quantum computers need to preserve quantum information for a long time to be able to crack important problems faster than a normal computer. Energy losses …
News Breakthrough in photonics: data-transmitting light signal gets power boost from nanosized amplifier

“An international team of researchers from Aalto University and Université Paris-Sud has significantly improved the propagation of data inside a microchip. Light is a more energy efficient and faster way of transferring data than electricity. Until now, the rapid attenuation …

“Joint European R&D team shows that black silicon with reflectance below 1% is ready for industrial solar panel production. A 2011 invention made by Aalto University’s researchers has proceeded from concept to reality. Just a few years ago …

“Researchers present a technique to produce large quantities of pristine single-walled carbon nanotubes in select shades of the rainbow. The secret is a fine-tuned fabrication process—and a small dose of CO2. Single-walled carbon nanotubes, or sheets of one atom-thick …

“New findings from Aalto University have the potential to change how electronics process logic functions, the elementary building blocks of computing. Our daily lives rely on electronic processors, which perform the basic arithmetic, logical, and control operations that make devices …

“Researchers from Aalto University are designing nano-sized quantum heat engines to explore whether they may be able to outperform classical heat engines in terms of power and efficiency. In their paper, published in Nature Physics, the group led by Professor …

“Extracting information quickly from quantum states is necessary for future quantum processors and super-sensitive detectors in existing technologies. There are limits to how accurately you can measure things. Think of an X-ray image: it is likely quite blurry and something …

“Topological randomness may be the answer for lossless electronics and making the nuts and bolts of quantum computers. Designing quantum materials with exotic and unprecedented electrical properties has the field of physics teeming with buzz. Researchers at Aalto University in …

“New experimental evidence also lays groundwork for new ways of studying time An Aalto University study has provided new evidence that time crystals can physically exist – a claim currently under hot debate. A time crystal is a structure that does …

“The creation of a fast, tunable and stable nanoparticle-array laser is a stepping stone to affordable and efficient sensing and switching. New study shows that organic dye material combined with metallic nanostructures can provide ultrafast lasing dynamics with short and …