Artist’s concept illustration of electrically controlled optical frequency combs at wafer scale. Credit: Brian Long Fifteen years ago, UC Santa Barbara electrical and materials professor…
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A type of beetle capable of regulating its body temperature in some of the hottest places on Earth is the centerpiece of new research with…
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Jung-Tsung Shen, associate professor in the Department of Electrical & Systems Engineering, has developed a deterministic, high-fidelity, two-bit quantum logic gate that takes advantage of…
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Researchers have developed a simple lab-based technique that allows them to look inside lithium-ion batteries and follow lithium ions moving in real time as the…
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An artist’s impression of a neural network (left) next to an optical micrograph of a physical nanowire network. Credit: Adrian Diaz-Alvarez/NIMS Japan (for nanowire image)…
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World’s fastest real-time quantum random number generator with a photonic integrated chip. Credit: Bing Bai and Yao Zheng At roughly the size of a fingertip,…
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Credit: University of Texas at San Antonio The financial technology industry predicts that digital currency will replace paper money by 2030. In 2019 alone, the…
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A thin film polymer tunes the properties of an inkjet printed array of small microwave resonators. The composite device can be tuned to capture or…
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Engineers at MIT, Caltech, and ETH Zürich find “nanoarchitected” materials designed from precisely patterned nanoscale structures (pictured) may be a promising route to lightweight armor,…
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Lightweight aerogel suspended in honeycomb structure. Credit: University of Bath Extremely low-density graphene-based aerogel ‘meringue’ can improve passenger comfort and reduce noise up to 80%.…
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