{"id":108330,"date":"2020-06-07T16:47:17","date_gmt":"2020-06-07T23:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/a-system-for-the-nonreciprocal-transmission-of-microwave-acoustic-waves"},"modified":"2020-06-07T16:47:17","modified_gmt":"2020-06-07T23:47:17","slug":"a-system-for-the-nonreciprocal-transmission-of-microwave-acoustic-waves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/a-system-for-the-nonreciprocal-transmission-of-microwave-acoustic-waves","title":{"rendered":"A system for the nonreciprocal transmission of microwave acoustic waves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-system-for-the-nonreciprocal-transmission-of-microwave-acoustic-waves2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Acoustic waves have been found to be highly versatile and promising carriers of information between chip-based electronic devices. This characteristic is ideal for the development of a number of electronic components, including microwave filters and transducers.<\/p>\n<p>In the past, some researchers have tried to build devices in which waves are transmitted between two ports in a non-symmetric way. These are known as nonreciprocal devices. These devices could be particularly promising for the manipulation and routing of phonons, quasiparticles associated with <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/acoustic+waves\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">acoustic waves<\/a>. Building nonreciprocal devices that transmit acoustic waves, however, can be highly challenging, as <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/acoustic+systems\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">acoustic systems<\/a> typically transmit waves in a linear way.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at Harvard University have recently achieved the non-reciprocal transmission of non-reciprocal acoustic waves using a nonlinear parity-time symmetric system. This system, presented in a paper published in <i>Nature Electronics<\/i>, is based on two coupled acoustic resonators placed on a lithium niobate surface.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Acoustic waves have been found to be highly versatile and promising carriers of information between chip-based electronic devices. This characteristic is ideal for the development of a number of electronic components, including microwave filters and transducers. In the past, some researchers have tried to build devices in which waves are transmitted between two ports in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1694],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-electronics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}