Gallium Arsenide is showing the possibility of reaching speeds in the Terahertz range making quantum computing look ever more possible.
“Time-resolved terahertz-pump and optical-probe measurements demonstrate that the 1s heavy-hole and light-hole exciton resonances undergo large-amplitude spectral modulations when the terahertz radiation is tuned near the 1s–2p intraexciton transition” is how the paper begins by researchers from Oregon State, University of Iowa, and others. You can read the full abstract of the paper titled “Ultrafast nonlinear optical effects in semiconductor quantum wells resonantly driven by strong few-cycle terahertz pulses“.
“Jamming Skin Enabled Locomotion” or JSEL for short is the name iRobot is giving to its all-new technology, which for the first time allows a small robot to act like both a liquid and a solid, with tons of potential military and consumer applications down the road.
This DARPA funded project has huge military (as well as consumer) implications down the road.
Nanotech is the study of matter at a very small (nano) scale – generally at the single molecule or even the single atom scale.
Given the relatively new tools and techniques now available, we are now able to devise and develop products starting with nano materials as the starting building blocks. This ability has profound ramifications in all aspects of human life, as nanotech provides us the ability to attack problems from an entirely new angle: the nano angle.
This blog is meant for the non-technical person who has an interest in breakthroughs and commercial endeavors that occur in the field of nanotechnology. Our aim is to breakdown the science into understandable language, and providing a platform for education and discourse within this new and exciting field.
“Time-resolved terahertz-pump and optical-probe measurements demonstrate that the 1s heavy-hole and light-hole exciton resonances undergo large-amplitude spectral modulations when the terahertz radiation is tuned near the 1s–2p intraexciton transition” is how the paper begins by researchers from Oregon State, University of Iowa, and others. You can read the full abstract of the paper titled “Ultrafast nonlinear optical effects in semiconductor quantum wells resonantly driven by strong few-cycle terahertz pulses“.
