RECENT COMPANY NEWS

March 2008, New collaborative project started with Materials Chemistry Laboratory, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India.

Quantum-π's US subsidiary became a member of the Technology Roadmap - an online resource that highlights the technical assets in Tech Valley, an 18 county region in upstate New York, USA. Technology Roadmap is an initiative of the Center for Economic Growth, NY, USA.

1 December 2007: Dr Jun Zhang from A*STAR Data Storage Institute joined as the Company's Technical Advisor.

27 November 2007: The Company's first family patent "Measurements Using Tunneling Current Between Elongate Conductors" was granted in Canada. Canada is the eigth country where this patent was granted.

31 October 2007: The Company's second family patent "Quantum Tunneling Transducer Device" was granted in Singapore.

August 2007: One year R&D project to test nanoTrek® has started at Birck Nanotechnology Laboratory, Purdue University, IN, USA. The project is fully funded by one of Company's clients.

OLDER COMPANY NEWS

18 September 2006: Quantum Precision Instruments Asia Private Limited has received investment from the London based Imprimatur Capital Limited.

NOT NEWS ANYMORE BUT MAY BE OF INTEREST

As a Senior Associate of the Foresight Institute Dr Michalewicz pledged at the Institute's Senior Associate Gathering to donate to the public domain specialised software he and his co-workers developed over the years. This software is particularily useful for studying electronic and optical properties of nanocrystals. In particular, it has been developed to study rutile (TiO₂) nanodots. It can help understand electronic and optical properties of tiny powder nanocrystals as a function of their size, oxygen vacancies and morphology, e.g. transition from transparency to opacity as the size of metal-oxide nanocrystal increases. It can also be particularly useful to understand oxygen vacancies migrations in disordered rutile and it's influence on the electronic density of states. This understanding is critical in the context of recent research of HP group of Prof Stan Williams on new electronic switching devices based on field induced oxygen vacancies migration in TiO₂.
This software was developed on a vector-parallel supercomputer and is used for determining the electronic structure of multi-million atom nanocrystals of transition metal oxides.
If you would like more information about this program and its uses you can read about it in "Electronic structure code for very large systems".