Shaken, not stirred: Ultrafast skyrmion reshuffling
Smaller, faster, more energy-efficient: future requirements to computing and data storage are hard to fulfill and alternative concepts are continuously explored. Small magnetic textures, so-called skyrmions, may become an ingredient in novel memory a.....»»
The demonstration of ultrafast switching to an insulating-like metastable state
In recent years, physicists and electronics engineers have been trying to devise strategies to control or produce quantum states of matter in different materials. Such strategies could ultimately prove valuable for the development of new technologica.....»»
Ultra-strong squeezing of light demonstrated for ultrafast optical signal processing
A train carrying cargo has finite space. The amount of cargo that can be carried onboard is limited by the size of the cargo and the capacity of the train. Analogously, the amount of time taken up by an optical signal limits the amount of data that c.....»»
US hits anti-robocall milestone but annoying calls won’t stop any time soon
Large carriers deploy STIR/SHAKEN. Small carriers, old landlines are still problems. Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) The nation's largest phone companies have met a federal deadline to deploy a new anti-robocall technology, but.....»»
Researchers observe sound-light pulses in 2D materials for the first time
Using an ultrafast transmission electron microscope, researchers from the Technion—Israel Institute of Technology have, for the first time, recorded the propagation of combined sound and light waves in atomically thin materials......»»
Achieving UV nonlinearity with a wide bandgap semiconductor waveguide
The field of ultrafast nonlinear photonics has now become the focus of numerous studies, as it enables a host of applications in advanced on-chip spectroscopy and information processing. The latter in particular requires a strongly intensity-dependen.....»»
Pandemic shakes up rankings of world"s most liveable cities
The pandemic has shaken up the rankings of the world's most liveable cities, a study released on Wednesday showed, with metropolises in Australia, Japan and New Zealand leaping ahead of those in Europe......»»
United Airlines Wants To Bring Back Supersonic Air Travel
The airline, which plans to buy planes from Boom Supersonic [Editor's note: the link may be paywalled; alternative source], a start-up, could become the first to offer ultrafast commercial flights since the Concorde stopped flying in 2003. From a rep.....»»
Ultrafast, on-chip PCR could speed diagnosis during pandemics
Reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) has been the gold standard for diagnosis during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the PCR portion of the test requires bulky, expensive machines and takes about an hour to complete, making it dif.....»»
FCC Proposes New STIR/SHAKEN Date for Possible Robocall Facilitators
FCC Proposes New STIR/SHAKEN Date for Possible Robocall Facilitators WASHINGTON, May 20, 2021—The Federal Communications Commission today proposed and sought comment on shortening the amount of time afforded to certain small voice service provider.....»»
Shaken, not stirred: Ultrafast skyrmion reshuffling
Smaller, faster, more energy-efficient: future requirements to computing and data storage are hard to fulfill and alternative concepts are continuously explored. Small magnetic textures, so-called skyrmions, may become an ingredient in novel memory a.....»»
Lenovo dives into ultrafast screens with its new 360Hz Legion gaming monitor
Lenovo's latest gaming monitor, the Legion Y25g, comes with a wicked-fast 360Hz refresh rate. But that kind of speed doesn't come cheap......»»
Transient grating spectroscopy with ultrafast X-rays
Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI have succeeded for the first time in looking inside materials using the method of transient grating spectroscopy with ultrafast X-rays at SwissFEL. The experiment at PSI is a milestone in observing proce.....»»
Lighting it up: Fast material manipulation through a laser
Researchers from the Physical Chemistry Department of the Fritz Haber Institute and the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter in Hamburg have found out that ultrafast switches in material properties can be prompted by laser pu.....»»
Little swirling mysteries: New research uncovers dynamics of ultrasmall, ultrafast groups of atoms
Our high-speed, high-bandwidth world constantly requires new ways to process and store information. Semiconductors and magnetic materials have made up the bulk of data storage devices for decades. In recent years, however, researchers and engineers h.....»»
Search for skyrmion phenomenon finds even stranger magnetic beaded necklace
Physicists on the hunt for a rarely seen magnetic spin texture have discovered another object that bears its hallmarks, hidden in the structure of ultra-thin magnetic films, that they have called an incommensurate spin crystal......»»
New technology enables ultrafast identification of COVID-19 biomarkers
Universitätsmedizin Berlin and the Francis Crick Institute have developed a mass spectrometry-based technique capable of measuring samples containing thousands of proteins within just a few minutes. It is faster and cheaper than a conventional blood.....»»
Enhanced ceramics could play pivotal role in advancing 5G technology
5G, or the fifth-generation technology standard for broadband cellular networks, is touted as having finally arrived for ultrafast download speeds, an end to dropped calls and buffering, and greater connectivity to advance autonomous vehicle developm.....»»
High-efficiency pulse compression established on solitons in nonlinear Kerr resonators
Generating intense ultrashort pulses with high spatial quality has opened up possibilities for ultrafast and strong-field science. It is so important that the Nobel Prize in Physics 2018 was given to Dr. Strickland and Dr. Mourou for inventing a tech.....»»
Jupiter"s Great Red Spot feeds on smaller storms
The stormy, centuries-old maelstrom of Jupiter's Great Red Spot was shaken but not destroyed by a series of anticyclones that crashed into it over the past few years......»»
Ultrafast intra-atom motion tracked using synchrotron radiation
Scientists in Japan have observed and interfered with the ultrafast motion of electron movement inside of a Xenon atom using the coherent pairs of short light waves in synchrotron radiation. Xenon, consisting of a nucleus surrounded by five nested sh.....»»