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The new device involves a tiny silicon beam that vibrates at 5 gigahertz and couples to a microwave resonator—essentially a nanoscale box in which photons bounce around, also at 5 GHz. Using a technique called electrostatic actuation, developed previously by the Mirhosseini lab for quantum applications, a microwave photon gets converted within that box to a mechanical vibration of the beam, and that mechanical oscillation, with the help of laser light, gets converted by the r

Researchers at Westlake University have disclosed a two-dimensional (2D) mechanically interlocked polymer (MIP) that mimics medieval chainmail at the molecular scale. This micrometer-scale 2D material exhibits exceptional flexibility and stiffness, potentially revolutionizing next-generation lightweight protective gear and smart armor systems.

Physicists in the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have created a compact laser that emits extremely bright, short pulses of light in a useful but difficult-to-achieve wavelength range, packing the performance of larger photonic devices onto a single chip.

Using a semiconductor manufacturing process, the team created alumina structures 28 nanometers thick (more than 1,000 times thinner than...

The research team designed a novel superconducting device capable of producing ultrafast, unipolar magnetic field steps—sudden magnetic c...

"We've demonstrated that not only can we create 3D structures from DNA, but integrate them into microchips as part of the workflow of how...