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Record High Frequency Achieved
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."
The article also talks about the surprising applications this new technology may evolve into
Like making your dog's head explode.
Think of the bees :p
More than 15 years ago, quite a few of the students at the physics lab I was teaching had their oscillating circuits reach 483 terahertz and more pretty easily. For a short amount of time that is.
They found frequencies... they didn't even know existed?!
+1 funny
-8 bad movie
-9000 overrated
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"TFA said 600 GHz is achievable. 324 GHz a nice because fog is transparent at that frequency."
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.
I agree, my girlfriend reached a far greater frequency when she found a spider in the bath tub. Old news.
They got a Vista score of 5, so obviously it's running at 324GHz
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I was able to get your girlfriend to emit some fairly high frequencies also, and it had nothing to do with a spider.
What were their majors? May affect the job market. If they were going into Law or Marketing, we already have enough of those.
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People across the nation began shitting themselves for no apparent reason. Victims recall feeling an unusual vibration in their bowels before immediately discharging feces. Some believe an evil genius may have finally discovered the "brown note". For Action 11 news I'm....oh god.....>PPHHBBBBHHTTHHHHH!!!!!
Take that Mythbusters!!!
Too bad you can camouflage the reflecting T-rays by wearing a T-shirt.
If you mod this up, your slashdot background will turn into a beautiful sunset!
So will we now start seeing tinfoil underwear to go with the hats?
... as it will finally allow a PC processor to run at the speeds necessary to have fluent Vista GUI ... now if someone would invent the 16TB ram chip, so that the also necessary 64TB of main memory could be added to said machine ...
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.
This thread so far reads like the end of your typical "Star Trek: TNG" episode-
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.