Today's Tech News: Notable or Not?

"three-terminal photonic synapse... large-area, uniform multilayer MoS2 films... ultrashort optical pulse detection within 5 μs and ultralow power consumption 40 aJ... several orders magnitude lower... can be further used for more complex ANN. The photoconductivity of MoS2 channel grown by CVD regulated by photostimulation signal, enables device simulate short-term synaptic plasticity (STP), long-term synaptic plasticity (LTP), paired-pulse facilitation (PPF)... simulate human visual perception"

https://phys.org/news/2022-06-non-volatile-memory-technologies-2d-materials.html "employing spintronic mechanisms such as spin-transfer torque (STT) and spin-orbit torque (SOT). The authors discuss the advantages that the co-integration of 2D materials in these technologies introduces, giving a panoramic of the improvements already achieved as well as a prospect of the many advances that further research can produce. A possible timeline of progress during the next decade is also traced"

https://techxplore.com/news/2022-06-modulate-acoustic-chip.html "control and modulation of acoustic waves with an electric field on chip for the first time. "integrated lithium niobate platform, bringing us one step closer to an acoustic integrated circuit. Loncar and his team harnessed the unique properties of lithium niobate to build an on-chip, electro-acoustic modulator to control the acoustic waves propagating in on-chip waveguides. By applying an electric field, the modulator can control the phase, amplitude, and frequency of the acoustic waves on chip... electrical modulation to actively tune the acoustic devices... microwave signal processing using acoustic devices"

https://techxplore.com/news/2022-06-range-solar-panels-juice-evs.html "Thanks to the drop in the price of solar panels, Lightyear is trying to incorporate them into road cars. With its sleek, aerodynamic line and motors integrated into the wheels, the Lightyear 0 consumes less energy than electric SUVs. Coupled with a battery that offers 625 kilometers per charge, the company says some customers who drive only short distances each day may only need to charge during the winter" Related: Lightyear 2 Solar EV Waitlist Now Open, Starting at Under $40K https://evmagz.com/lightyear-2-solar-ev-waitlist-now-open-starting-at-under-40k/ The Aptera solarized vehicle gives us a glimpse to what is now possible https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/8/4/2185067/-New-Energy-Paradigm-Thinking Chargeless EV balances on-vehicle solar panels and battery using AI https://www.thecooldown.com/green-tech/odisha-solar-ev-charging-india/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evw1ZcxqJF4 "enormous surface area of blade battery... may be cooled by air passing through the cells, eliminating need for massive cooling lines... batteries may serve a structural component... can store more energy per liter... helps with recharging time and charging wirelessly... lithium ion phosphate for rapid charge and discharge... least expensive of all battery chemistry... less risk of fire... do not contain cobalt... production started July 2020 by BYD in China"

https://phys.org/news/2022-06-single-mode-semiconductor-laser-power-scalability.html "semiconductor membrane perforated with evenly spaced and same-sized holes functioned as a perfect scalable laser cavity. They demonstrated that the laser emits a consistent, single wavelength, regardless of the size of the cavity... vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers, or VCSELs, in which laser light is emitted vertically out of the chip. Such lasers are used in a wide range of applications, including fiber optic communications, computer mice, laser printers and biometric identification systems"

https://techxplore.com/news/2022-06-transistor-memristor-technologies-future.html "3D integration memristors allows more devices packed maintaining smallest size... new terrain for memristors... memristive technology scales up, integrating vertical, three-dimensional technology involving a nano-sized matrix of metallic wires with an insulating switch... memristor—at every junction. Applying voltage pulses breaks insulation, creating path for current flow... removing voltage, modified structure remains conductive ghost, or memory that, when voltage applied again, can be reversed" Related: China's top chip maker SMIC may have achieved tech breakthrough, experts say https://finance.yahoo.com/news/chinas-top-chip-maker-smic-093000367.html

https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2022/06/24/single-axis-trackers-on-a-commercial-rooftop-increase-generation-37/ "fit more modules on rooftop... higher production rate... a lot of skylights, and not facing south... 4.55 MW of modules... with... 10º installation... 1.34 kWh per watt each year... 5.4 MW – full 18% increase wattage due to systems ability installed directly over skylights without needing the standard setback! Additionally, this hardware is projected to generate 1.54 kWh per watt installed per year... 37% more electricity from the same rooftop... when trackers directly attached to roof – a 2.15 pounds per square foot dead load"

https://techxplore.com/news/2022-06-optical-solar-arrays-capture-cloudy.html "layered together different glasses and polymers that bend light to different degrees, creating what's known as a graded index material. The layers change the light's direction in steps instead of a smooth curve, which the researchers found to be a good approximation of the ideal AGILE. The sides of the prototypes are mirrored, so any light going in the wrong direction is bounced back towards the output" Related: Suspended solar panels see the light https://techxplore.com/news/2024-03-solar-panels.html

https://techxplore.com/news/2022-06-squid-skininspired-material-game-changer.html "10 cents per square meter... "Having something that you can wrap around your cup, like latex or Saran Wrap, would make you able to turn almost any container into an insulated thermos," Gorodetsky says. "But by also being able to stretch the material, you can adjust it to your needs. Maybe you like your coffee burning hot, but someone else likes it warm or lukewarm"

https://techxplore.com/news/2022-06-salt-battery-limits-power-storage.html "reversible electrochemical reaction. There are many flavors of this basic process with different kinds of chemicals and ions involved. A particular option being explored by the ASTRABAT project is to do away with the liquid electrolyte and make it a solid or gel instead. In theory, these solid-state batteries have a higher energy density, meaning they can power devices for longer. They should also be safer and quicker to manufacture, since, unlike typical lithium-ion batteries, they don't use a flammable liquid electrolyte" Related: Improving materials to increase storage capacity for a home-use salt battery https://techxplore.com/news/2023-03-materials-storage-capacity-home-use-salt.html This salt battery revolutionizes renewable energy storage https://innovationorigins.com/en/laio/this-salt-battery-revolutionizes-renewable-energy-storage/ Innovative Breakthrough: Saltwater and Ferrofluid Unleash

https://techxplore.com/news/2022-06-unheeded-failure-mechanism-magnesium-metal.html "macroscopic and microscopic characterization... plating/stripping behavior Mg metal anode current density... dendrite-free advantage of Mg metal anode in a classic electrolyte. Unfortunately, the team proposed that uneven stripping behavior was inevitable in the chlorine-containing electrolytes, though the chlorine seemed to be beneficial for the plating process... low or high current density generate uniform stripping morphology... stirring electrolyte and adding leveling agent improve stripping" Related: Engineers develop a rechargeable aqueous battery with a magnesium metal anode https://techxplore.com/news/2022-10-rechargeable-aqueous-battery-magnesium-metal.htm

https://phys.org/news/2022-06-exploring-nitrogen-doped-polycyclic-aromatic-hydrocarbons.html "flexible, and their properties responsive to choice of electron-accepting group... can tune emission mechanism between thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) and room temperature phosphorescence (RTP)... optical and electronic properties characterized... the emission spectra of N-doped PAHs in sets of conditions and measured energy levels... external quantum efficiencies (EQEs)... EQE of 12%" Related: Even more efficient, brighter OLED TVs likely to launch in 2024-2025 https://www.flatpanelshd.com/news.php?subaction=showfull&id=1670318058 A sensitization strategy achieves hyperfluorescence https://phys.org/news/2022-12-sensitization-strategy-hyperfluorescence.html Researchers develop novel stackable hole injection layer material for solution-processed OLEDs https://techxplore.com/news/2023-03-stackable-hole-layer-material-solution-processed.html

https://phys.org/news/2022-06-upcycling-plastics-dynamic-cross-linking.html "FFF methodf vitrimer printability enabled fast exchange kinetics and malleability with mechanical integrity... develop self-standing structures... interlayer integration enhanced strength... immersed in tetrahydrofuran, samples solvent resistant, indicating crosslinking throughout layered structure... led to easy sample separation from waste mixtures for ready recycling and upcycling processes... enhanced structural strength with reduced materials consumption during the manufacturing process" Related: Microbe-Grown Electronics: An Alternative To Plastic https://cleantechnica.com/2019/05/31/microbe-grown-electronics-an-alternative-to-plastic/ New zirconia-based catalyst can make plastics upcycling more sustainable https://phys.org/news/2023-02-zirconia-based-catalyst-plastics-upcycling-sustainable.amp Plastic upcycling to close the carbon cycle https://techxplore.com/news/2023-02-plastic-upcycling-car

https://phys.org/news/2022-06-chicago-quantum-exchange-future-revolutionize.html "networks sharing quantum information... quantum information... crack currently unsolvable problems, both threaten and protect private information, and lead to breakthroughs agriculture, medicine and climate change... entanglement, in which qubits separated by great distances can still be correlated, so a measurement in one place reveals a measurement far away... distributes photons. Trying to intercept the photons destroys them and the information they contain—making it far more difficult to hack"

https://phys.org/news/2022-06-exotic-photonic-crystals-empower-robust.html "A one-way street for light was built with the combination of two ENZ-MO-PhCs with the opposite magnetization. Unidirectional and backscattering immune transport of light was numerically obtained at the interface between two PhCs. And the transport performance was unchanged even with large-size defects and sharp bends"

https://scitechdaily.com/the-michael-jordan-of-solar-cells-new-technology-proves-its-lasting-power/ "speeds up aging process by illuminating while blasting with heat... speeds up what would happen naturally over years... four aging temperatures... measured results across four data streams, from baseline temperature to 230 degrees F... extrapolated from combined data and forecast device’s performance at room temperature over tens of thousands hours continuous illumination... above 80 percent peak efficiency under illumination five years at average of 95 degrees F... equivalent 30 years outdoor"

https://techxplore.com/news/2022-06-solar-energy-storage-problem-rechargeable.html "received solar energy Earth's surface 100,000 terawatt-hours meetsl global energy consumption 16 terawatts... solar energy is intermittent due to fluctuations in isolation. To balance supply and demand, converted solar energy needs to be stored in other energy storage devices. Therefore, it is imperative to incorporate suitable energy storage technologies into solar cells, enabling effective solar energy utilization and delivering the produced electricity when needed"

https://techxplore.com/news/2022-06-babies-key-artificial-intelligence.html "metaphorical parallels between our systems and mental development of human babies and children... neural networks were in parts inspired by the brain. Similar to infants, they rely on learning, but current implementations are very different from human (and animal) learning. Through interdisciplinary research, babies can help unlock the next generation of AI." Related: New hardware offers faster computation for artificial intelligence, with much less energy https://techxplore.com/news/2022-07-hardware-faster-artificial-intelligence-energy.html

https://scitechdaily.com/new-technique-dramatically-accelerates-computer-programs-without-fear-of-errors/ "preprocessing step inserts annotations onto program... parallelize script while program is running... ensures accelerated program returns accurate results. Users don’t need to make any modifications to use PaSh; they can just add the tool to their existing Unix shell and tell their scripts to use it"

https://techxplore.com/news/2022-06-polymer-electronics.html "device and put it in liquid electrolyte—sodium chloride dissolved in water... drive sodium migrate into CPE-K active layer by applying positive voltage at gate. Alternatively, can change polarity of voltage and drive chloride migrate to active layer... organic doping materials cluster together instead of dispersing... don't run into the issue of uneven dopant distribution. You also avoid the whole process of optimizing the dopant and determining the right mix and proportions, all of which add steps and complicate processing"

https://www.sciencealert.com/a-huge-step-forward-in-quantum-computing-was-just-announced-the-first-ever-quantum-circuit "10 quantum dots, each made up of small number of phosphorus atoms. Double carbon bonds simulated by putting less distance between the quantum dots than single carbon bonds. Polyacetylene used to prove computer correctly simulating movement of electrons... simulation of penicillin molecule with 41 atoms, classical computer would need 1086 transistors... quantum computer only require 286 qubits"

https://www.surrey.ac.uk/news/focus-chemistry-not-electronics-could-see-future-solar-panels-reach-their-potential "fusing perovskite materials with an element called Ferrocene dramatically increases efficiency perovskite-based panels. The team found that this focus on the chemistry of solar panels, rather than other approaches that looked at mechanical and electrical components, produced the intended breakthrough... element within organometallic chemistry Ferrocene improves efficiency and stabilises drop in energy that all solar panels have over time... cheap to produce and solves water absorption problem"

https://techxplore.com/news/2022-06-nanostructured-surfaces-future-quantum-chips.html "non-reciprocal light propagation combined with frequency conversion of laser light... a few hundred nanometers, to convert infrared into visible light... conversion process takes place in one illumination direction for nanostructured surface, completely suppressed in opposite direction... duality in frequency conversion characteristics code images into transparent surface... images only became visible when we used infrared laser light for the illumination" Related: US, Japan reaching for a 2-nm chip breakthrough https://asiatimes.com/2022/08/us-japan-reaching-for-a-2-nm-chip-breakthrough/

https://phys.org/news/2022-06-high-photonic-circuit-based-inverse.html "three devices two all-optical switches controlling input states of XOR gate... 2.5 μm×7 μm, and that of a single device was 2 μm×2 μm... distance between adjacent devices 1.5 μm... response time 100 fs, and threshold energy of control light 10 fJ/bit... response time 20 fs... realized a function of identifying two-digit logic signal results. This work provides a new idea for the design of ultrafast, ultra-low energy consumption and ultra-high density integrated photonic circuit"

https://phys.org/news/2022-06-ultrathin-capacitor-enable-energy-efficient-microchips.html " precise control over deposited film's structure, chemistry, thickness, and interfaces with metal electrodes. By chopping each deposited sample in half and looking at its structure atom by atom... a version that precisely mimicked an extremely thin slice of the bulk... film of BaTiO3 in between two metal layers... created tiny capacitors... Applying voltages 100 mV or less... polarization switched within two billionths of second"

https://engineering.virginia.edu/news/2022/06/uva-researchers-harness-power-new-solid-state-thermal-technology "antiferroelectric material... heat and voltage come into play... high-quality crystal... thermal conductivity trends like an amorphous glass... solid-state... can rapidly heat the crystal with laser or apply voltage to actively tune thermal conductivity and heat transport.. 38% bi-directional change in thermal conductivity in one burst... flip in polarity and arrangement of atoms in crystal that support the anti-ferroelectric structure leads to observable and measurable thermal scattering events"

https://www.azom.com/news.aspx?newsID=59346 "enhanced tunability... Pears... carbon precursor. Continuous power levels up several volts achieved... zinc foil anode and carbon fiber strip cathode. Post-discharge, self-recharged in air, biomimicking respiration functionalized graphene nanosheets. Oxygen and moisture converted into chemical energy... enhanced stability is retained... continuous harvesting and storage... incredibly durable. The authors demonstrated the battery’s performance by connecting devices in series to power a motor and an LED" Related: Eos Energy Enterprises, Inc. Secures Over 1 GWh in New Orders, More Than Doubles Backlog to Over $460 Million https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2022/07/06/2475032/0/en/Eos-Energy-Enterprises-Inc-Secures-Over-1-GWh-in-New-Orders-More-Than-Doubles-Backlog-to-Over-460-Million.html Verdant Microgrid, LLC Announces Completion of New Microgrid at ThermalVac Technologies, Inc. in Orange, California https://www.prnewswire.c

https://physicsworld.com/a/photons-stay-entangled-despite-huge-jump-in-frequency/ "efficiency of process is 70–80%, unprecedented for single photons... by varying the frequency of the incoming laser beam, the pressure of the gas in the fibre or the nature of the gas itself, it should be relatively trivial to alter the phonon frequency, and thereby to alter the amount by which an incoming photon’s frequency is increased. “Everything is reconfigurable,” explains Russell’s colleague Nicolas Joly. “You don’t need to change anything on the optical table – you just change the bottle of gas underneath"

https://techxplore.com/news/2022-06-chemists-pin-energy-losses-high-capacity.html "Li-rich complex oxides of transition metals hold record specific capacity... cations transition metals (nickel and cobalt) and oxygen anions redox reactions... voltage hysteresis—the difference in charge and discharge voltages—leads to energy losses during battery operation and limits practical applications... cathode material to remain electrically neutral, release or take in same number of electrons... kinetic hindrances and energy barriers caused by electron transfer not migration lithium cations"

https://techxplore.com/news/2022-06-mathematical-potential-solutions-next-generation-battery.html "anisotropic electrolytes, these materials could finetune the complex interplay between ion transport and interfacial chemistry, thwarting buildup that proceeds dendrite formation. Some liquid crystals and gels display these desired characteristics, the researchers suggest... battery separators... pores which cause lithium ions to pass back and forth through electrolyte in anisotropic manner"

https://techxplore.com/news/2022-06-membrane-reversibility-zinc-air-batteries.html "Zhang and his team proposed two types of hybrid cell prototypes that would employ the proton-shuttle-shielding, hydrophobic-ion-conducting strategy. Both the hybrid Zn-Mn battery and hybrid Zn-Br battery are expected to exhibit potentially high voltage and a long cycle life, thus showing the feasibility of using such hybrid cells to create high-energy-density aqueous batteries" Related: Transition metal composite provides a cost-effective boost for lackluster zinc–air battery performance https://techxplore.com/news/2022-10-transition-metal-composite-cost-effective-boost.html Principles and Design of Biphasic Self-Stratifying Batteries Toward Next-Generation Energy Storage https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/anie.202320258

https://techxplore.com/news/2022-06-transfer-printing-technique-metal-electrodes-2d.html "transfer metal electrodes on 2D materials... development of more reliable metal-semiconductor junctions... deposit six... metals onto wafer-scale graphene/Ge donor substrate... deposition of metal electrode array on graphene/Ge substrate... wafer-scale 3D metal patterns transfer... 100% yield and scale up transfer technology to wafer size... van der Waals contacts between various 2D semiconductors and 3D metals. In the future, it could be used to realize new types of van der Waals integrated circuits" Related: Scientists grow 'perfect' atom-thin materials on industrial silicon wafers https://phys.org/news/2023-01-scientists-atom-thin-materials-industrial-silicon.html

https://phys.org/news/2022-06-physicists-atom-laser.html "creating continuous Bose-Einstein Condensate... spread the cooling steps not over time, but in space: we make the atoms move while they progress through consecutive cooling steps. In the end, ultracold atoms arrive at the heart of the experiment, where they can be used to form coherent matter waves in a BEC. But while these atoms are being used, new atoms are already on their way to replenish the BEC. In this way we can keep the process going—essentially forever"

https://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2022/06/chinas-particle-beam-cannon-nuclear-power-breakthrough/368082/ "fission key to secure future... Upwards of 70% of China’s petroleum comes from imports, primarily from the Middle East, and must transit numerous maritime chokepoints. China is slated to spend $440 billion between now and 2035 to build at least 150 more nuclear reactors. If China can continue to develop ADS technology, the waste from these plants can be put to good use and be recycled to produce even more energy for its growing needs" Related: This new nuclear thorium breakthrough shocks American scientists https://www.thechemicalengineer.com/news/cph2-licenses-membrane-free-electrolyser-for-use-alongside-solar-power-plants/ Nuclear Waste Recycling: Turning Radioactive Materials into Clean Fuel https://www.azocleantech.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=1751 Moltex announces waste recycling breakthrough https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Moltex-announces-waste-recycling-b

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-10037-x "spatial correlations between photons enables imaging systems where preferential selection of photon-pairs... enhancements in noise performance... camera capable resolving number of individual photons in each pixel of detector array record image formed from photon-pair events... achieve greater contrast... ratio of two-photon events compared to one-photon events using spatially correlated SPDC light compared to uncorrelated illumination by LED... low-light microscopy and covert imaging"

https://techxplore.com/news/2022-06-electric-vehicles-peer-to-peer.html "SUMO that basically allows you to create scenarios where a number of different electric vehicles are running on a given highway, and then we introduce this concept of mobile charging or peer-to-peer charging and we also introduced the concept of mobile charging stations in the simulation and saw how far each of the cars would have gone without recharging versus with peer-to-peer charging... reduction of refueling requirements among electrical vehicles"

https://phys.org/news/2022-06-device-scientists-closer-quantum-materials.html "XY spin lattice with large number of coherently coupled condensates...  lattice 10×10... room temperature rather than ultracold solid-state quantum simulation platform... without need for complicated and expensive equipment and materials,,, simulating large calculational approaches and many other device applications, previously inaccessible at room temperature"

https://techxplore.com/news/2022-06-potential-p-computers.html "8 p-bit p-computer initially showed the device's potential. Their article, published in 2019 in Nature, described a ten-fold reduction in the energy and hundred-fold reduction in the area footprint it required compared to a classical computer. Seed funding, provided in fall 2020 by UCSB's Institute for Energy Efficiency, allowed Camsari and Theogarajan to take p-computer research one step further, supporting the work featured in Nature Electronics"

https://phys.org/news/2022-06-fluorine-doping-method-catalysts.html "synthesized iron-nitrogen-carbon using adsorption pyrolysis... carbon dioxide electroreduction experiments in H-type cell and gas diffusion electrode cell... theoretical calculations... improvements that happened with fluorine doping. Electrochemical tests... enriched defects by fluorine-doping kinetically increase electroactive surface area and improve charge transfer,... carbon dioxide electroreduction to carbon monoxide performance of iron-nitrogen-carbon catalysts by stabilizing Fe3+ sites" Related: In an advance for solar fuels, hybrid materials improve photocatalytic carbon dioxide reduction https://techxplore.com/news/2023-01-advance-solar-fuels-hybrid-materials.html Researchers realize paired electrosynthesis of dimethyl carbonate with single-atom catalyst https://phys.org/news/2023-02-paired-electrosynthesis-dimethyl-carbonate-single-atom.html Carbon dioxide electrolysis as an alternative to coal ht

https://phys.org/news/2022-06-synthesis-crystal-flakes-paves-path.html "van der Waals growth strain-free and no misfit dislocations in as-grown 2D InAs... InAs and the substrate do not covalently bond... can be separated and substrate re-used, making synthesis process cost-effective... tune properties 2D InAs by changing thickness... 2D InAs achieve desired properties and  integrate other compounds... stack 2D InAs with other 2D form heterojunctions for multifunction performance... final 2D InAs... triangular flakes five nanometers thick... 0.0007 size of single red blood cell"

https://phys.org/news/2022-06-world-ultra-fast-photonic-processor-polarization.html "HAD (hybridized-active-dielectric) nanowire, using hybrid glassy material... switchable material properties upon illumination of optical pulses... shows selective responses to specific polarization direction... information simultaneously processed using multiple polarizations in different directions... multiple polarization channels, leading to  enhancement in computing density by several orders... computing speeds are faster because these nanowires are modulated by nanosecond optical pulses"

https://phys.org/news/2022-06-all-optical-nanometer-scale.html   "excited transient magnetic grating (TMG) with periodicity of ΛTMG = 87 nm in ferrimagnetic GdFe alloy... spatial evolution magnetization grating probed by diffracting time-delayed, third XUV pulse tuned Gd N-edge at wavelength 8.3 nm (150 eV)... linear magnetization response to excitation and no AOS, sinusoidal TMG induced and second diffraction order suppressed... intensity ratio between the second and first order (R21) as a fingerprint observable for AOS in diffraction experiments"

  https://techxplore.com/news/2022-06-transceiver-higher-frequency-bands-5g.html "DPD technique, distorting signal before transmission cancel out distortion... used shared look-up table (LUT) for antennas, minimizing complexity... inter-element mismatch compensation capabilities to phased array, improving linearity... compensating inter-element mismatches in shared-LUT DPD module, lower adjacent channel leakage and transmission error," remarks Professor Okada. "Hopefully, the device and techniques described in this study will let us all reap the benefits of 5G NR sooner" Related: Enabling 5G millimeter wave wireless communication through innovative beam management https://techxplore.com/news/2022-07-enabling-5g-millimeter-wireless.html Huawei’s ‘0 Bit 0 Watt’ Solution Wins GSMA GLOMO ‘Best Mobile Technology Breakthrough’ Award at MWC Barcelona 2024 https://solarquarter.com/2024/03/01/huaweis-0-bit-0-watt-solution-wins-gsma-glomo-best-mobile-technology-breakthrough-a

https://techxplore.com/news/2022-06-neuromorphic-architecture-deep-neural-networks.html "biological neurons rest after spiking replicated in neuromorphic hardware... solve time series processing tasks efficiently.... network check which neurons currently most reluctant to fire... reconstruct information recently processed... laziness have advantages in computing... when running same DNN, Intel's neuromorphic computing chip consumed 4 to 16 times less energy... leveraging artificial neurons' lack of activity after they spike... improve hardware's performance on time series processing tasks"

https://phys.org/news/2022-06-ultrafast-lasers-probe-next-generation-solar.html "time-resolved X-ray technique, which can now be applied to a wider range of materials and may provide the understanding needed for making more efficient OPV devices... first step of solar energy conversion reactions in material caused by striking of light....fired laser pulse lasting 15 femtoseconds at material... X-ray pulse lasting attoseconds measured resultant changes in material... direct X-ray signatures initial state material when electrons are knocked out of position... creates electron and hole pair"

https://techxplore.com/news/2022-06-logical-molecule.html "The single electron logic calculators (SELCs) are built from molecules bridging the gap between two gold electrodes. The layer of material has a thickness of one single molecule. It functions thanks to a quantum effect called the Coulomb blockade. Depending on voltage, the electron will be halted or flow through the molecule. As the effect mainly depends on voltage pulses and not on a continuous electric current, the consumption is very low"

https://phys.org/news/2022-06-team-hot-photocatalyst.html "jointly forming and combining organic and inorganic substances in the same reaction vessel—specifically, an inorganic solid that encloses organic dye molecules. When exposed to light, which is by and large the most environmentally friendly energy resource, the hybrid material functions like a catalyst, i.e., a photocatalyst. Since the photocatalyst is a solid, it can be used multiple times" Related: Advancing our mastery of stereoselective photoredox reactions to produce mirror-image molecules https://phys.org/news/2023-01-advancing-mastery-stereoselective-photoredox-reactions.html First visible-light induced simultaneous cleavage of C-C and C-N bonds with polyoxometalate photocatalyst https://phys.org/news/2023-03-visible-light-simultaneous-cleavage-c-c-c-n.html An improved, visible light-harvesting catalyst to speed up reactions https://phys.org/news/2023-03-visible-light-harvesting-catalyst-reactions.html New type

https://phys.org/news/2022-06-atomically-thin-semiconductors-nanophotonics.html "emitted light... excitons in ultra-thin semiconductors molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) and tungsten disulfide (WS2)... changing distance of WS2 bilayer to mirror, excitation enhancement increases exciton-exciton annihilation... higher polarization... crystalline silicon nanodisks preserve circular polarization of light near field... enhancement valley-polarized emission... increase sensitivity down to single molecule level, and valleytronic devices... new generation of electronic devices based on valley polarization" Related: Closing in on next-generation atom-thick photonic devices https://phys.org/news/2023-03-next-generation-atom-thick-photonic-devices.html Using chemical exfoliation to produce superconducting tungsten disulfide ink https://phys.org/news/2023-03-chemical-exfoliation-superconducting-tungsten-disulfide.html Researchers develop an optimal silicon disulfide production technology to bo

https://techxplore.com/news/2022-06-epitaxial-multilayer-mos2-wafers-high-performance.html "trilayer MoS2 field-effect room temperature mobility can reach up to 234.7 cm2·V-1·s-1, setting a new mobility record for devices based on 2D transition-metal sulfide semiconductors... channel length 100 nm current density (Vds=1 V) increased from 0.4 mA·μm-1 for monolayer to 0.64/0.81 mA·μm-1 for bilayer/trilayer... enhancement factor 60% / 102.5%... 40 nm short-channel devices record-high on-current densities of 1.70/1.22/0.94 mA/μm at Vds=2/1/0.65 V, high on/off ratio exceeding 107" Related: Engineers develop new integration route for tiny transistors https://techxplore.com/news/2022-08-route-tiny-transistors.html

https://techxplore.com/news/2022-05-suddenly-super-hot.html "SINTEF has developed the world's "hottest" heat pump together with its industrial partners and colleagues at NTNU. It recently held its third conference on the topic of high-temperature heat pumps... do not need to generate high temperatures... industrial users... very hot water or process steam... 150 degrees or process steam at 5 bar... The heat pumps have also made the leap from the prototype stage to commercial systems that can supply heat over a lifetime of at least 20 years" Related: DOE Announces Breakthrough in Residential Cold Climate Heat Pump Technology https://www.energy.gov/articles/doe-announces-breakthrough-residential-cold-climate-heat-pump-technology Next-gen heat pump could cut energy bills and carbon emissions https://techxplore.com/news/2022-08-next-gen-energy-bills-carbon-emissions Low exergy concepts for the heat supply of existing multifamily houses https://techxplore.com/news/20

https://techxplore.com/news/2022-06-data-storage-memory.html   "3D stacked memory cell based on ferroelectric and antiferroelectric field-effect transistors (FETs) with atomic-layer-deposited oxide semiconductor channel... non-volatile... vertical structure increases information density and reduces energy needs. Hafnium oxide and indium oxide... Information stored by degree of polarization in ferroelectric layer... efficient erasure operations within the oxide semiconductor channel... stable for at least 1,000 cycless" Related: Novel lateral data storage: Two-dimensional ferroelectric semiconductor memory https://techxplore.com/news/2023-08-lateral-storage-two-dimensional-ferroelectric-semiconductor.html

https://techxplore.com/news/2022-06-electricity-over-the-air-simultaneous-transmission-5g.html "receives 5G and millimeter-wave power signal... power signal activates device and provides power... transmission mode sends 5G signal same direction... Thus, a device like this can easily communicate and be part of the Internet of Things without needing a separate plug point, unlike most current indoor Internet of Things devices. The device can generate power over a wide span of angles and distances and, thus, does not suffer from the challenges faced by previous wirelessly powered devices" Related: DARPA looks to laser to beam power across the world https://newatlas.com/technology/darpa-laser-beam-power-across-distances/

https://alternative-energy-today.com/energy-products/sansi-6500-lumens-a21-led-light-bulb-650w-equivalent-e26-led-bulb-with-ceramic-technology-5000k-daylight/ "6500 lumens using only 35 watts, equivalent to 650W incandescent bulbs. Based on 3 hours per day usage, save up to 95% electricity, annual estimated cost $3.83. Flicker-Free: Adopting high light transmission optical lenses, up to 210 LED chips... non-conductive ceramic heat sink, directly soldering LED chip on ceramic heat sink reducing thermal resistance between LED PN junction and surface of heat sink... faster heat conduction... flame retardant grade reaches grade V0...22.5 years LED bulb"

https://physicsworld.com/a/scientists-unveil-josephson-diode/ "flake of niobium bromide few atoms thick between layers of superconducting niobium diselenide... niobium bromide... net electric dipole exhibiting symmetry breaking needed to build superconducting diode... 20 millikelvin,.. functioned as superconductor when current flowed in one direction... normal resistive behaviour in other... no magnetic field was needed to achieve this diode effect – showing that while the effect was present with zero field it disappears when the junction is exposed to higher fields"

https://phys.org/news/2022-06-graphite-coal-carbon-solid.html "carbon has an overwhelming tendency to layer—like graphite, but with many 'defects' such as pentagons and heptagons (five- and seven-member rings of carbon atoms), which fit quite naturally into the network. We present evidence that amorphous graphite exists, and we describe its process of formation. It has been suspected from experiments that graphitization occurs near 3,000 K, but the details of the formation process and nature of disorder in the planes was unknown"

https://businessnewswales.com/major-breakthrough-in-search-to-develop-and-produce-clean-gas-energy-source/ "reconstructs and converts water into molecular clusters... electrically charged to create a constant oxidisation and friction. This makes the molecules more efficient, causing them to vibrate, which in turn creates a very reactive gas, providing a clean gas and flame.Unlike hydrogen gas KINETIC 7... ambient heating, cooking and hot water heating... industrial production. Large-scale manufacturing, engineering and industry... Food production, restaurants and hotels... significantly cheaper than natural gas" Related: Highly efficient, near-infrared-featured CO2 reduction by surface plasmon https://phys.org/news/2023-03-highly-efficient-near-infrared-featured-co2-reduction.html High-loading single cobalt atoms on ultrathin MOF nanosheets for efficient photocatalytic carbon dioxide reduction https://phys.org/news/2023-03-high-loading-cobalt-atoms-ultrathin-mof.html

https://phys.org/news/2022-06-channel-optical-link-capable-transmitting.html "400 GB of data per second—the equivalent of about 100,000 streaming movies. This could improve data-intensive internet applications from video streaming services to high-capacity transactions for the stock market... channels exhibited a low crosstalk of less than -20 dB. Using less than −10 dBm of received optical receiver power, the link performed error-free data transmission in 34 out of the 40 channels using a PRBS31 pattern, a standard used to test high-speed circuits under stress" Related: Researchers Just Set a New Record For Data Transmission Speed https://frontstory.io/researchers-just-set-a-new-record-for-data-transmission-speed/

https://phys.org/news/2022-06-room-temperature-molecular-discovery-paves-faster.html "smaller more powerful and energy efficient technologies... improving MRI scans which could lead to earlier detection of diseases like cancer. These materials can also be used for sensors, carbon capture and storage, hydrogen fuel cells, and as actuators, which can turn electricity into movement, which would be useful for robots... at or above room temperature"

https://phys.org/news/2022-06-theory-quantum-exponentially-faster-tasks.html "machine learning task learn via experiments repeated... quantum system conduct experiments learn from them... quantum computer could do it, and that it could do it much better than a classical system. In fact, they found a reduction in the required number of experiments needed to learn a concept to be four orders of magnitude lower than for classical systems. The researchers then built such a system and tested it on Google's Sycamore quantum computer and confirmed their theory" Related: A Huge Step Forward in Quantum Computing Was Just Announced: The First-Ever Quantum Circuit https://frontstory.io/a-huge-step-forward-in-quantum-computing-was-just-announced-the-first-ever-quantum-circuit/ Characterizing the materials for next-generation quantum computers with nonlinear optical spectroscopy https://phys.org/news/2022-07-characterizing-materials-next-generation-quantum-nonlinear.html New method of

https://phys.org/news/2022-06-path-sustainable-photon-upconversion-non-precious.html "laser flash photolysis technique... detect all intermediates... for upconversion... quantitative laser experiments... absence of inherent energy loss channels and side reactions... transfer and convert solar energy with chromium compounds... light-driven reactions... instead of using the rare, more costly ruthenium and iridium compounds... Together with our partners at BAM in Berlin and other universities we will continue to push on with our efforts to develop a more sustainable photochemistry"

https://renewablesnow.com/news/german-pilot-plant-explores-heat-generation-directly-from-wind-energy-787180/ "small wind turbine output 15 kW and container converts wind energy into heat... wind thermal systems lower investment, maintenance and operation costs... fewer components than power generation systems... where heat is needed temperatures up to 300 C such as local and district heating supply, water desalination plants and processes in paper, cardboard and food industries... high-temperature heat storage up to 600 C several weeks and is used for electricity generation... cheaper alternative to battery storage" Related: The world's first operational 'sand battery' can store energy for months https://interestingengineering.com/worlds-first-sand-battery Breakthrough Tech Heats Homes Cheaper Than Natural Gas! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9PZ9Mykv4o Underground thermal energy networks are becoming crucial to the US's energy future https://www.technologyre

https://techxplore.com/news/2022-06-fast-future-heavy-duty-hydrogen-trucks.html "H2FillS fast, flexible, and free-to-use thermodynamic model simulates hydrogen supply from hydrogen station to light-duty FCEV... The latest release optimized the model's computational speed so that it is now 20x–40x faster than the previous version and added optimization to the pressure ramp rate parameter. In addition, H2FillS now explores the complete hydrogen fueling process to calculate the optimal fueling rate for HD vehicles" Related: An innovative, efficient hydrogen compressor for FCEV refueling stations https://techxplore.com/news/2023-03-efficient-hydrogen-compressor-fcev-refueling.html

https://www.concordia.ca/news/stories/2022/05/31/direct-sound-printing-is-a-potential-game-changer-for-manufacturers-of-microdevices.html "polymer used additive manufacturing polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS)... transducer generate ultrasonic field passes through shell and solidifies the targeted liquid resin and deposits it onto a platform or another previously solidified object. The transducer moves along a predetermined path, eventually creating the desired product pixel by pixel. The microstructure’s parameters can be manipulated by adjusting the duration of the ultrasound wave’s frequency and the viscosity of the material being used"

https://physicsworld.com/a/thermophotovoltaic-cells-top-40-percent-efficiency/ "maximum efficiency 41.1% and power density of 2.39 W/cm2 using heat source emitting at 2400 °C... first of two cell designs uses top and bottom junctions made from AlGaInAs and GaInAs grown on GaAs substrate...  second design combines lattice-matched 1.4 eV GaAs top cell with lattice-mismatched 1.2 eV GaInAs bottom cell... almost constant ‘penalty’ on voltage, moving to higher bandgaps (of 1.0 to 1.4 eV) confers advantage" Related: Scientists New Thermophotovoltaic Battery Breakthrough FINALLY Hit The Market https://www.greentech-news.org/scientists-new-thermophotovoltaic-battery-breakthrough-finally-hit-the-market/ Malta Inc. Announces Key Milestone for Pumped-Heat Energy Storage System Deployment https://www.valdostadailytimes.com/news/business/malta-inc-announces-key-milestone-for-pumped-heat-energy-storage-system-deployment/article_fa1b52b0-3b2b-5b71-88ef-bda8400e6906.htm See also: Institute d

https://phys.org/news/2022-06-doping-strategy-responsive-phototransistors.html "doping 2D layered InSe via NTD... narrowed bandgap and increased electron mobility of SN-doped layered InSe... raised field-effect electron mobility from 1.92 cm2 V-1 s-1 to 195 cm2 V-1 s-1... responsivity improved fifty times to 397 A/W... dopants strictly controlled and introduced... doping at atomic level... placed exactly and know precise impact of dopant in that location. Finally, NTD could be used to protect people, particularly when sensing gases or other biological issues"

https://techxplore.com/news/2022-06-scientists-multivalent-cation-additives-rechargeable.html "stabilize lithium or sodium deposits, helping keep their metallic structure intact. The discovery prevents potential battery degradation and short circuiting, and paves the way for higher energy-density metal-anode batteries... multivalent cations, such as calcium ions, that altered and strengthened the solvation structure of lithium or sodium ions in the electrolyte... modified structure moderates the reduction of lithium or sodium ions on the electrode surface and enables a stable diffusion and electric field" Related: Tailoring defects in a hard carbon anode to enhance Na storage performance https://techxplore.com/news/2022-06-tailoring-defects-hard-carbon-anode.html New material pushes sodium-ion batteries to phase out costly lithium https://techxplore.com/news/2022-08-material-sodium-ion-batteries-phase-costly.html Scientists use toxic hogweed to make anode material for cheap s

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-06-in-ear-technology-batteries-aids.html "modelling the deformations of the ear canal created by the movements of the jaw... action of eating for 50 minutes would be enough to generate all the energy necessary for a day's use of the hearing aid. For this experiment, the researchers placed an earplug filled with water in the ear of the participants. They then measured the pressure in the earplug created by the jaw movements. Finally, they translated these pressure variations into deformations of the ear canal"

https://phys.org/news/2022-06-all-optical-method-optical-power-efficient.html "switching speed can be raised to an ultrafast time scale (femtosecond 10-15 sec) by replacing the electrons with plasmons. Plasmons are a combination of photons and a collection of electrons on the surface of metals. This enables optical switching with our device with femtosecond (10-15 sec) speeds," she states... L-shaped combination of metallic nanorods. One nanorods receives a linearly polarized signal and the other receives another linearly polarized 'control' beam perpendicular to the first beam"

https://techxplore.com/news/2022-06-imager-microchip-devices-hidden.html "complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS)... making pixels small and low power... integrate transmitter, receiver and antenna in small area... innovations that overcame fundamental active-gain limits of CMOS is that this imaging technology consumes more than 100 times less power than the phased arrays currently being investigated for the same imaging applications" Related: Samsung expected to announce mass production of 3nm chip next week https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20220622002900320 Hidden information extraction from layered structures through terahertz imaging https://phys.org/news/2023-10-hidden-layered-terahertz-imaging.html

https://beckman.illinois.edu/about/news/article/2022/06/02/new-polymer-property-could-give-accessible-solar-power-a-boost "combined achiral conjugated polymers with solvent... added solution to microscope slide. As solvent molecules evaporated, leaving polymers, solution became more concentrated... compressed achiral polymers self-assembling to form structures... solution’s concentration increased... achiral polymers were not assembling into achiral structures... Instead forming helixes... polymers’ twisted shape and helical structure... Molecular dynamics simulation was instrumental to this research"

https://interestingengineering.com/xanadu-quantum-computer-borealis-computational-advantage "photonic processor dynamic programmability on all gates... Gaussian boson sampling4 (GBS) on 216 squeezed modes entangled three-dimensional connectivity5, time-multiplexed and photon-number-resolving architecture... more than 9,000 years best available algorithms and supercomputers to produce, using exact methods, single sample from programmed distribution, Borealis only 36 μs... over 50 million times as extreme... registering events with up to 219 photons and mean photon number of 125"

https://techxplore.com/news/2022-05-ultra-thin-electrode-material-closer-next-generation.html "freely control the characteristics of the N-type and P-type devices by minimizing defects with the semiconductor interface. In other words, a single device performs the functions of both N-type and P-type devices. Hence, there is no need to manufacture the N-type and P-type devices separately. By using this device, the joint research team successfully implemented a high-performance, low-power, complementary logic circuit that can perform logic operations such as NOR and NAND"

https://techxplore.com/news/2022-05-alternative-lithium-batteries.html "oxysulfide glass electrolyte... high-energy ball milling process... interface between sodium metal and electrolyte, solid electrolyte forms self-passivating interphase essential for reversible plating and stripping sodium... highest critical current density among all Na-ion conducting sulfide-based solid electrolytes... high-performance ambient-temperature sodium-sulfur batteries... safe, low-cost, energy-dense, and long-lifetime solid-state sodium batteries"

https://techxplore.com/news/2022-06-fabric-motion-electricity.html "generates 2.34 watts per square meter of electricity... hand tapping on 3cm by 4cm piece of fabric continuously light up 100 LEDs, or charge capacitors... continuous stable electrical output... harness vibration energy... potentially extend lifetime of a battery or even to build self-powered systems. To our knowledge, this is the first hybrid perovskite-based energy device that is stable, stretchable, breathable, waterproof, and at the same time capable of delivering outstanding electrical output performance"

https://techxplore.com/news/2022-06-solar-cell-architecture-real-world-constraints.html "resilience of novel solar cell... hot carrier multijunction solar cell (HCMJSC), to nonideal design with nonoptimal materials... consisted of thin hot carrier top junction series connected to thick cold bottom junction... HCSC demonstrated highest PCE, followed by HCMJSC and MJSC... HCMJSC more relaxed requirements on hot carrier thermalization compared to HCSC... all three designs showed lower efficiency... low-bandgap HCMJSCs were slightly more sensitive to illumination effects" Related: New material to boost the efficiency limits of silicon solar cells https://techxplore.com/news/2024-01-material-boost-efficiency-limits-silicon.html

https://techxplore.com/news/2022-06-beam-steering-technology-mobile-5g.html "continuous 'wide-angle' beam steering... track moving mobile phone user in same way satellite dish turns... significantly enhanced speeds... fully compatible with existing 5G specifications... simple to fabricate... size of iPhone, the uses metamaterial made from a metal sheet... array regularly spaced holes micrometers in diameter... actuator controls height of cavity... antenna control radio wave—effectively 'concentrating' beam into directive signal, and then redirecting this energy as desired" Related: A new ‘beam-steering’ technology that takes mobile communications beyond 5G is here https://interestingengineering.com/beam-steering-technology-mobile-5g

https://phys.org/news/2022-06-atomic-scale-window-superconductivity-paves-quantum.html "wavefunctions of Cooper pairs are reconstructed at the atomic scale and how they interact with atomic-scale impurities and other obstacles... building block quantum computers... platform... superconductivity room temperature. Cooper pairs unique internal structures unconventional superconductors... challenging to understand. This discovery allows for the direct probing of the state of Cooper pairs in unconventional superconductors, establishing a critical new technique for a whole family of quantum materials"

https://phys.org/news/2022-06-near-ultraviolet-led-excitable-near-infrared-emitters.html "Te4+/Ln3+ (Ln=Er, Nd, and Yb) co-doping... NIR emission perovskite-derivative Cs2ZrCl6 microcrystals (MCs)... sensitization spin-orbital allowed 1S0 → 3P1 transition Te4+... intense and multi-wavelength NIR luminescence... 4f → 4f transitions Er3+, Nd3+, and Yb3+... air-, structure-, and photo-stability of Te4+/Ln3+ co-doped Cs2ZrCl6... potentials as vis/NIR dual-emitters... NUV-converted NIR-LEDs... efficient NIR emission lead-free metal halides ns2-metal and lanthanide ion co-doping" Related: Conversion to LED lighting brings new kind of light pollution to Europe https://phys.org/news/2022-09-conversion-kind-pollution-europe.html Progress in perovskite LEDs for deep-blue light https://phys.org/news/2023-01-perovskite-deep-blue.html Perovskite-modified LEDs reveal rot in spoiled food before it is visible https://phys.org/news/2023-07-perovskite-modified-reveal-food-visible.html Perovski

https://techxplore.com/news/2022-06-strategy-fast-charging-solid-state-batteries.html "ultrathin layer of a refractory metal—a metal that is resistant to heat and wear—between the lithium anode and solid electrolyte. "The refractory metal layer shields the solid electrolyte from the stress and redistributes the current to an extent," says Aetukuri. He and his team collaborated with researchers at Carnegie Mellon University in the US, who carried out computational analysis which clearly showed that the refractory metal layer indeed delayed the growth of microscopic lithium voids" Related: Increasing the lifespan and stability of solid-state lithium-ion batteries https://techxplore.com/news/2022-06-lifespan-stability-solid-state-lithium-ion-batteries.html Enpower Greentech develops world's lightest 100 Ah lithium metal battery https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/enpower-greentech-develops-worlds-lightest-012300083.html  see alos: Enpower Greentech Achieves a Major

https://news.youexec.com/briefs/breakthrough-in-solid-state-battery-design-could-reshape-the-grid?r=google.com&pr=ne "new form electrolyte enables solid-state sodium energy... higher current density than previously... electrolytes... room temperature... longer-lasting and lower-cost sodium batteries. replace lithium, most popular battery storage option. Lithium controls over 90% global grid battery storage market.... rising costs and supply bottlenecks mean it’s not sustainable and unlikely to meet its high demand. By contrast, sodium is more abundant, less flammable, and now could be easier to replicate as a store of power" Related: Solid-state batteries for EVs move a step closer to production https://arstechnica.com/cars/2022/06/solid-state-batteries-for-evs-move-a-step-closer-to-production/

https://www.bnl.gov/newsroom/news.php?a=119584 "introducing additive to electrolyte stifles crosstalk. As additive decomposes... produces lithium phosphate (Li3PO4) and lithium fluoride (LiF) to form protective cathode-electrolyte-interphase—a solid thin layer... battery’s cathode during cycling... Reduced transition metal loss decrease deposition of transition metals on anode... enables a nickel-rich layered cathode to be cycled at high voltages to increase the energy density and still retain 97 percent of its initial capacity after 200 cycles, the researchers found" Related: Researchers raise expectations for commercialization of high-energy-density all-solid-state batteries https://techxplore.com/news/2024-02-commercialization-high-energy-density-solid.html

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/world-first-room-temperature-quantum-computer "instead of ion chains, silicon quantum dots, or superconducting transmon qubits, Quantum Brilliance... naturally-occurring nitrogen-vacancy centers synthetic diamonds... defects in diamond's structure, photoluminescence capability... qubits' spin states read based on emitted light's characteristics, without directly interacting with qubits... significant step for the company on its journey to achieve a quantum technology that's smaller, compatible, more flexible, and ultimately able to operate in any environment"

https://scitechdaily.com/new-artificial-enzyme-shows-potential-for-new-renewable-energy-source/ "replaced peptides surround active site natural enzymes with peptoids self-assembled nanoscale crystalline tubes and sheets... mimic the function of proteins. They have several unique features, including high stability, that allow scientists to address the deficiencies of the natural enzymes. In this case, they offer a high density of active sites, which is impossible to obtain with a natural enzyme... organize active sites and tune environments for catalytic activity... higher density active sites, instead of one active site" Related: CABBI Develops Eco-Friendly Enzyme to Create Key Chemical Building Blocks https://cabbi.bio/cabbi-develops-eco-friendly-enzyme-to-create-key-chemical-building-blocks/

https://interestingengineering.com/closer-to-true-quantum-internet "difference with quantum teleportation is that no physical matter is relayed, only information, thanks to a quirk in quantum mechanics that allows two quantum particles to "share" a quantum state... like describing pair  gloves. When you see which hand one of those gloves goes on, you know which one the other goes on as well, even if you never see it" Related: Japan sets new record, brings world closer to internet 100,000 times faster than current speeds https://nextshark.com/japanese-researchers-near-petabit-internet/

https://phys.org/news/2022-05-transparency-demand-artificial-materials-transparent.html "selectively amplify or dampen specific parts of beam microscopic level counteract onset of degradation... stay in picture of nebula, light-scattering properties completely suppressed... modifying material... possible transmission of specific light signal... successfully tackled this challenge. In their experiments, they were able to recreate and observe the microscopic interactions of light signals with their newly developed active materials in networks of kilometer-long optical fibers" Related: Backyard insect inspires invisibility devices, next gen tech https://phys.org/news/2024-03-backyard-insect-invisibility-devices-gen.html