'Electron-spin' trick boosts quantum computing - tech - 16 August 2006 - New Scientist Tech: "A team led by Lieven Vandersypen at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands has now created a device that can manipulate a single electron using conventional microchip fabrication technology.
'This is a breakthrough experiment,' says Guido Burkard, a physicist at the University of Basel in Switzerland, who was not involved in the research. 'A major benefit of making a qubit using this method is that they are built upon existing semiconductor technology.' This should make the qubits easier to scale up into larger systems, he adds."