The Academy of Finland has granted funding to six competence clusters included in the Finnish Flagship Programme. The funding is for the second flagship term 2022–2026.Aalto University coordinates FinnCERES, a competence centre developing new biomate
Major Step Forward for Quantum Technology
A team of researchers from Finland, Sweden, and Japan have developed a semiconductor component in which quantum information can be efficiently exchanged between electron spin and photons at room temperature and above. The new method, described in an article recently published in Nature Photonics, is based on amplifying the spin polarisation in a semiconductor structure made up of InAs quantum dots and nitrogen-containing semiconductor compounds. The component was fabricated by researchers at Tampere University using the molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) technique.
“Conventional electronics carry and store information using transistors that switch between states, controlled by electrons with a negative charge. This technology is seeing its limits in terms of processing speed and capacity, as well as energy needs (a major example is the huge increase of electricity demand attrib