{"id":117474,"date":"2020-12-20T23:22:50","date_gmt":"2020-12-21T07:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/meshing-optics-with-electronics-physics-discovery-leads-to-ballistic-optical-materials"},"modified":"2020-12-20T23:22:50","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T07:22:50","slug":"meshing-optics-with-electronics-physics-discovery-leads-to-ballistic-optical-materials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/meshing-optics-with-electronics-physics-discovery-leads-to-ballistic-optical-materials","title":{"rendered":"Meshing Optics With Electronics: Physics Discovery Leads to Ballistic Optical Materials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/meshing-optics-with-electronics-physics-discovery-leads-to-ballistic-optical-materials3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Electronics are increasingly being paired with optical systems, such as when accessing the internet on an electronically run computer through fiber optic cables.<\/p>\n<p>But meshing optics \u2014 which relies on particles of light called photons\u2014with electronics\u2014relying on electrons \u2014 is challenging, due to their disparate scales. Electrons work at a much smaller scale than light does. The mismatch between electronic systems and optical systems means that every time a signal converts from one to the other, inefficiency creeps into the system.<\/p>\n<p>Now, a team led by a Purdue University scientist has found a way to create more efficient metamaterials using semiconductors and a novel aspect of physics that amplifies the activity of electrons. The study is published in the journal <em>Optica<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electronics are increasingly being paired with optical systems, such as when accessing the internet on an electronically run computer through fiber optic cables. But meshing optics \u2014 which relies on particles of light called photons\u2014with electronics\u2014relying on electrons \u2014 is challenging, due to their disparate scales. Electrons work at a much smaller scale than light [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,418,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-internet","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117474","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}