Record High Frequency Achieved 141
eldavojohn writes "Researchers at UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science managed to push our control of frequencies to another level when they hit a submillimeter 324 gigahertz frequency. As any signal geek out there might tell you, this is a non-trivial task. 'With traditional 90-nanometer CMOS circuit approaches, it is virtually impossible to generate usable submillimeter signals with a frequency higher than about 190 GHz. That's because conventional oscillator circuits are nonlinear systems in which increases in frequency are accompanied by a corresponding loss in gain or efficiency and an increase in noise, making them unsuitable for practical applications.' The article also talks about the surprising applications this new technology may evolve into."
In other news, dogs in the area go berserk (Score:5, Funny)
Like making your dog's head explode.
Nooo! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Nooo! (Score:5, Funny)
That's nothing (Score:4, Funny)
Re:In other news, dogs in the area go berserk (Score:5, Funny)
Like making your dog's head explode.
The article talks about the military being interested in acquiring the technology so they can see through peoples clothes, and that was the best you could come up with?
That's weak.
So you're saying... (Score:4, Funny)
+1 funny
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Re:In other news, dogs in the area go berserk (Score:5, Funny)
Re:How they did it (Score:5, Funny)
So in twenty years time cars will have an anti-fog display on the windscreen (which will have the ability to switch between transparent and display mode), which will make travelling through fog much safer at high speeds (let's just accept that cars will not have an auto-drive mode by then, eh?).
On the downside, many crashes will occur because pedestrians on the sidewalk will appear to be naked! Perverts will be making the school run even worse as they hang around outside schools. And we'll all accept it as the price to pay for safety and anti-terrorism requirements.
Re:In other news, dogs in the area go berserk (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Hardly the highest frequency! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:This makes me wonder ... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Hardly the highest frequency! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:VA Tech shooting 22 dead 28 injured. (Score:1, Funny)
Re:In other news, dogs in the area go berserk (Score:5, Funny)
Re:In other news, dogs in the area go berserk (Score:3, Funny)
Like making your dog's head explode.
In other news..... (Score:3, Funny)
Take that Mythbusters!!!
Re:In other news, dogs in the area go berserk (Score:3, Funny)
Re:T-rays (Score:4, Funny)
new clothes (Score:2, Funny)
M$ was waiting for this ... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:In other news, dogs in the area go berserk (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Nooo! (Score:2, Funny)
Big deal (Score:4, Funny)
I can create an even higher frequency for a fraction of the cost.
(Turns on flashlight)
I can even send information.
(Blinks flashlight)
I admit the data capactity needs work, though.
Re:In other news, dogs in the area go berserk (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Nooo! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Hardly the highest frequency! (Score:3, Funny)
Wesley Crusher: Of course! We can defeat the aliens if we hydrogenate that wormhole near the stellar core whatchamajigger, since superconducting SIS mixers and Jopsephson junction local oscillators achieve a phase-locked operation up to 500GHz.
Geordi LaForge: That could destabalize the laser beams at frequencies exceeding 1 PHz (10^15 Hz) which have been precisely controlled, phase locked, and tuned to have frequencies that are *exact multiples* of our best microwave frequency standards.
Wesley: Right. Just like in the academy.
Picard: Make it so.