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1. UB Physicist Receives Over $1M In Federal Grants For Neutral-Atom Quantum Computing Research 7/15/2026

   A UB physicist has received two U.S. Department of Defense grants totaling $1.1M to study the quantum dynamics that could help advance neutral-atom quantum computing.

2. SES, Airbus And Dutch Municipality Of Noordwijk To Build Satellite Optical Ground Station For EAGLE-1 7/15/2026

   SES, a space solutions company, jointly with Airbus Netherlands B.V. signed a ground lease agreement with the Dutch municipality of Noordwijk for a plot at the NL Space Campus, next to the European Space Agency’s (ESA) technical center ESTeC.

3. LSU Physicists Create First Room-Temperature Quantum Material 7/14/2026

   Quantum materials could transform technologies ranging from powerful computers and ultra-secure communications to advanced energy systems. But there has always been one major obstacle.

4. Aliro Technologies And Zerothird Demonstrate Operational Quantum Networking With Cisco 7/14/2026

   Cisco is now testing Aliro Orchestrator as the quantum network management layer at its Cisco Photonics Center in Vimercate, Italy, to operate and manage a live entanglement-based quantum key distribution (eQKD) network built on zerothird’s eQKD system.

5. SILITH And UMC Achieve Mass Production Milestone For Silicon Photonics 7/13/2026

   SILITH Technology, a silicon photonics fabless company, and United Microelectronics Corporation (“UMC”), a leading global semiconductor foundry, today announced the first mass-production wafer delivery of photonic ICs from UMC’s Singapore fab, advancing the partnership between the two companies to scale next-generation silicon photonics manufacturing.

6. CCNY-Led Researchers Define New Frontier In Quantum Materials 7/13/2026

   Researchers in City College of New York physicist Vinod M. Menon’s Laboratory for Nano and Micro Photonics (LaNMP) have outlined an emerging frontier in quantum materials: atomically thin systems in which light, magnetism, and electric charge are strongly intertwined.

7. Scalable Photonic Quantum Computers: A New Breakthrough With Time-Division Multiplexing Photonics 7/10/2026

   A team of researchers from the Institute for Photonic Quantum Systems (PhoQS) at Paderborn University has taken a decisive step towards universal photonic quantum computers.

8. New Imaging Method Offers Fresh Insight Into LED Materials 7/10/2026

   Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs) are used in everything from household lighting and mobile phones to large display screens. Improving their efficiency could reduce energy use and enhance performance across a wide range of technologies.

9. Aehr Receives Follow-On Production Order From Lead Silicon Photonics Customer For Fully Automated FOX-XP Wafer-Level Burn-In System 7/9/2026

   Aehr Test Systems, a leading provider of test and burn-in solutions for semiconductor devices used in artificial intelligence (AI), silicon photonics, data center, automotive, and industrial applications, today announced it has received an additional follow-on production order from its lead silicon photonics customer for a fully automated FOX-XP wafer-level burn-in (WLBI) system.

10. Light As A Quantum Playground: Reconfigurable Simulators Reveal Hidden Dynamics Of Matter 7/9/2026

    A team of researchers at the University of Ottawa and its Nexus for Quantum Technologies Institute, in collaboration with researchers from Federico II University in Italy, has developed a programmable quantum simulator that shapes a beam of light to replicate how particles move through complex materials, avoiding the need for ever-larger electronic hardware.