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Breakthrough allows ordinary telecom networks to be secured from eavesdropping. Press Release 20 November 2012.
The award presented on 2 July 2012 recognises significant contributions in the spirit of the inventors who founded Toshiba, Hisashige Tanaka and Ichisuke Fujioka.
Two-qubit gate using only semiconductor devices as a building block for photonic quantum computing announced in Applied Physics Letters 100, 211103 (2012).
Electric-field-modulated silicon avalanche photodiodes clearly discerning multiphoton signals at high-speed reported in Nature Communications 3, 644 (2012).