Quantum News
Improving the world’s resistance measurement
10 Apr 2013Cryogenic Current Comparator provides the world's most accurate ratio of current, which together with the Quantum Hall effect allows resistance to be measured to very high accuracy.- Slow noise processes, with characteristic timescales ∼1 s, have been studied in planar superconducting resonators.
Quantum links with Oxford
21 Feb 2013NPL scientists join forces with the University of Oxford to investigate graphene.NPL part of Graphene Flagship
28 Jan 2013NPL is part of a consortium that has been funded half a billion euros by the European Commission to develop the potential of graphene.UK funds 'super-material'
21 Jan 2013NPL is collaborating with Royal Holloway, University of London, who run a project focusing on using graphene to develop new equipment that can operate at high frequencies.Graphene: the thickness of it
27 Sep 2012NPL research has demonstrated the most effective ways of measuring the thickness of epitaxial graphene layers.NPL scientist wins Graphene Prize
20 Sep 2012Vishal Panchal was awarded the 'Geim and Novoselov Graphene Prize' at one of the world's biggest nanotechnology conferences.Summer Students in QD
30 Aug 2012Alex Proutski from Royal Holloway and Andrew Wilson, from the University of Cambridge share their experiences.- Two NPL employees gave presentations at the International Conference on the Physics of Semiconductors 2012, which was held at ETH Zurich.
- Researchers in NPL's Quantum Detection Group have demonstrated for the first time a monolithic 3D ion microtrap array which could be scaled up to handle several tens of ion-based quantum bits.