Toward quantum chips
Boston MA (SPX) Jan 13, 2015 - A team of researchers has built an array of light detectors sensitive enough to register the arrival of individual light particles, or photons, and mounted them on a silicon optical chip. Such arrays are crucial components of devices that use photons to perform quantum computations. Single-photon detectors are notoriously temperamental: Of 100 deposited on a chip using standard manufacturi ... more

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