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Record High Frequency Achieved

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the music-to-their-ears dept.

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."

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    1. Every news channel is reporting it right now.
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  2. MP3 by wilsonthecat · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Where can I download the MP3

  3. Record High Frequency Achieved by ScrewMaster · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I think pot usage must be on the rise.

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  4. Usage by miltary foot soldier by w_lighter · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Imagine this, Your whole squad have this "special" goggles. And in battle you see hundreds... nea~ THOUSAND of naked man running around with thier dick swinging around likes its a pendulum or something and balls jumping up and down uncontrollable. I tell you man... someone going to fall down and broke into laughter and get shoot for it. And laughter spreads like virus too...

  5. No high enough ! by OricAtmos48K · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Will this 324 GhZ Pentium be enough to run VISTA ?