{"id":31567,"date":"2016-10-31T17:17:52","date_gmt":"2016-11-01T00:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/edmonton-researchers-tiny-discovery-may-revolutionize-computers"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:06:05","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:06:05","slug":"edmonton-researchers-tiny-discovery-may-revolutionize-computers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/edmonton-researchers-tiny-discovery-may-revolutionize-computers","title":{"rendered":"Edmonton researchers\u2019 tiny discovery may revolutionize computers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/edmonton-researchers-tiny-discovery-may-revolutionize-computers.jpeg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New method for creating smaller switches for QC identified and making smaller and more efficient QC systems possible.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Edmonton nanotechnology researchers working with atom-sized materials have made a breakthrough that could lead to smaller, ultraefficient computers.<\/p>\n<p>The team, led by Robert Wolkow, together with collaborators at the Max Planck Institute in Hamburg, have developed a way to create atomic switches for electricity nearly 100 times smaller than the smallest switches, or transistors, on the market today. Their findings appeared in the Oct. 26 edition of the scientific publication Nature Communications.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we\u2019re showing in this new paper is one part in a bigger scheme \u2026 that allows us to make ultralow power consuming electronic devices,\u201d said Wolkow, a physics professor at the University of Alberta and the principal research officer at Edmonton\u2019s National Institute for Nanotechnology. He\u2019s also chief technology officer at spinoff company Quantum Silicon Inc.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/edmontonjournal.com\/technology\/science\/edmonton-researchers-tiny-discovery-may-revolutionize-computers\">http:\/\/edmontonjournal.com\/technology\/science\/edmonton-resea...-computers<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New method for creating smaller switches for QC identified and making smaller and more efficient QC systems possible. Edmonton nanotechnology researchers working with atom-sized materials have made a breakthrough that could lead to smaller, ultraefficient computers. The team, led by Robert Wolkow, together with collaborators at the Max Planck Institute in Hamburg, have developed a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,4,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-nanotechnology","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31567"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65875,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31567\/revisions\/65875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}