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Superconducting electronics

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Temporal Computing

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The human brain does some types of information processing, like speech recognition, image recognition, or video processing, much more efficiently than can be

Advanced Microwave Photonics

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Research on quantum information (QI) seeks to control and exploit exotic properties of quantum mechanics, and researchers are already generating "unbreakable"

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Spotlight: A New Wavelength of Scientific Exploration With Single-Photon Detectors

Microwave Detectors and Multiplexing: NIST Researchers Help Astronomers Examine the Early Universe

NIST Team Develops Highest-Resolution Single-Photon Superconducting Camera