Quobly, a French quantum computing company developing industrially scalable quantum computers based on silicon spin qubits, today announces new results showing qubit readout, single-qubit gates and two-qubit gates on a single quantum chip fabricated on its proprietary QSOI® technology. The results were obtained on QSOI® devices fabricated in STMicroelectronics’ commercial …
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NASA recently announced a mission to explore the history and evolution of the universe, PRIMA (PRobe far-Infrared Mission for Astrophysics), is advancing to the next phase of development. This space telescope is the first in a new class of NASA astrophysics missions, called Probe Explorers, within the agency’s longstanding Explorers …
Emergence Quantum recently announced a partnership with hyperscale data center specialist AirTrunk to bring cryogenic cooling and quantum computing to next-generation data centers. Cryo-cooling can significantly improve the speed and energy-efficiency of today’s silicon computer chips, enabling faster computation with less power. The same cryo-technology is also foundational to many …
Empty space is not truly empty. Even a vacuum contains restless quantum fluctuations, and researchers have now shown for the first time that these normally subtle effects can be engineered to strengthen superconductivity. The work, led by Changgan Zeng and Guanghui Cheng of the University of Science and Technology of …
India has achieved another milestone in deep-tech research by joining the highly exclusive group of nations possessing closed-loop cryogenic refrigeration technology. The Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology has successfully developed a Gifford-McMahon cryocooler capable of reaching minus 243 degrees Celsius, equivalent to 30 Kelvin, along with an indigenous helium …
Intel Chief Executive Lip-Bu Tan said quantum computers are likely to work alongside conventional processors rather than replace them, as the industry searches for commercially useful applications. “In my view, GPUs, CPUs and quantum computing are all forms of computing, so they will run together in certain application areas, and …
A new approach to energy storage could keep advanced electronics running in environments where conventional batteries and capacitors begin to fail. Researchers have developed a dielectric capacitor that maintains high energy efficiency at temperatures as low as 4 kelvin, a regime only a few degrees above absolute zero. The device …
An ultra-clean crystal surface allowed individual molecules to preserve quantum coherence at the fundamental Fourier limit. A molecule placed on a surface should be easier to probe and manipulate than one hidden inside a solid or suspended in vacuum. In practice, however, surface contamination creates an unstable, noisy environment that …
Quantum technology is a rapidly growing field, with advanced solutions being developed in quantum computing, sensing, and communication moving from research labs to real-world applications. As the quantum industry scales, one of the key bottlenecks it faces is a shortage of people with the hands-on experimental skills needed to build, …
The Defense Logistics Agency Energy delivered a new turnkey system for transporting aviator’s oxygen to the 23rd Logistics Readiness Squadron at Moody Air Force Base, establishing a dedicated supply chain—a move prompted by pandemic-era shortages. The project originated during the coronavirus pandemic when hospitals' increased need for oxygen strained the …
IBM has successfully integrated and cooled two cryogenic modules within a single shared environment, a step the company calls critical to scaling quantum systems that can eventually link hundreds of quantum chips. The achievement supports IBM’s stated timeline for delivering IBM Quantum Starling in 2029, a system the company expects …
When astronauts travel deeper into space, every drop of fuel becomes critical, and keeping those fuels stable for months or even years is one of the biggest engineering challenges facing future missions. Now, University of Florida researchers have uncovered a surprising behavior in boiling liquids that could help solve that …
Quantum computers aiming for 1,000 qubits will demand between 3,000 and 5,000 individual cryogenic connections, creating a significant challenge and spurring innovation in how signals reach quantum processors. Superconducting quantum computers from companies like IBM, Google, and Rigetti rely on operating temperatures below 10 millikelvin, establishing a critical dependence on …
A homegrown 10-gram cooling technology for missile seekers has broken a tightly guarded Western monopoly on such products. The journey to this lean manufacturing success story began with a chance meeting between IIT Bombay alumnus Dr Pravin Salinkar, co-owner of Techno Defence Pvt Ltd and a lab director from Defence …
The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and GenH2 have formed a collaboration to advance liquid hydrogen technologies for next-generation aviation. GenH2 will provide the university with a laboratory-scale hydrogen liquefier, giving researchers the ability to produce liquid hydrogen directly on campus for aerospace testing. This capability is expected to address a …
AE Industrial Partners finalized its $845 million acquisition of L3Harris Technologies' space propulsion, power, and electronics units on August 4, 2026, relaunching the historic Rocketdyne brand as a standalone company for the first time in more than two decades. The deal gives AE Industrial a 60% controlling interest; L3Harris retains …
The 2026 Roger W. Boom Award honors Dr. Erica Salazar for her work on high-temperature superconducting (HTS) cable technology and innovative fiber optic quench detection systems. As Senior Manager and Magnet Systems Lead at Commonwealth Fusion Systems, she has helped transition these technologies from research into large-scale implementation for the …
by Bradley Moore, NASA - Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology The SpectroPhotometer for the History of the universe, Epoch of Reionization and ices Explorer (SPHEREx) is a passively cooled astrophysical observatory operating in a synchronous Low Earth Orbit (LEO). It is a planned 26-month mission that will map …
by Michiel van Limbeek, Cris Vermeer, and Marcel ter Brake, University of Twente. Romaine Kunst, Adrie Visser, Pieter Lerou, and Erik-Jan de Hoon, Demcon kryoz. Johannes Burger, Martijn Al, and Hassan Firouzbakht, Cooll. The first part of this article appeared in Volume 42, Number 3 of Cold Facts and explained …
by Quan Sheng Shu An Era-Defining Engineer and Mentor My close friend and mentor, Dr. Ronald W. Fast, passed away on June 13, 2024. Born on April 2, 1934, Ron was widely recognized as one of the leading cryogenic and superconducting magnet engineers of his generation. As head of the …
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