{"id":134847,"date":"2022-01-28T16:27:19","date_gmt":"2022-01-29T00:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/precision-machining-produces-tiny-light-guiding-cubes-for-advancing-info-tech"},"modified":"2022-01-28T16:27:19","modified_gmt":"2022-01-29T00:27:19","slug":"precision-machining-produces-tiny-light-guiding-cubes-for-advancing-info-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/precision-machining-produces-tiny-light-guiding-cubes-for-advancing-info-tech","title":{"rendered":"Precision machining produces tiny, light-guiding cubes for advancing info tech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AUf7FW633n0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Drilling with the beam of an electron microscope, scientists at the Department of Energy\u2019s Oak Ridge National Laboratory precisely machined tiny electrically conductive cubes that can interact with light and organized them in patterned structures that confine and relay light\u2019s electromagnetic signal. This demonstration is a step toward potentially faster computer chips and more perceptive sensors.<\/p>\n<p>The seeming wizardry of these structures comes from the ability of their surfaces to support collective waves of electrons, called plasmons, with the same frequency as <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/light+waves\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">light waves<\/a> but with much tighter confinement. The light-guiding structures are measured in nanometers, or billionths of a meter\u2014100,000 times thinner than a human hair.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese nanoscale cube systems allow extreme confinement of light in specific locations and tunable control of its energy,\u201d said ORNL\u2019s Kevin Roccapriore, first author of a study published in the journal <i>Small<\/i>. \u201cIt\u2019s a way to connect signals with very different length scales.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drilling with the beam of an electron microscope, scientists at the Department of Energy\u2019s Oak Ridge National Laboratory precisely machined tiny electrically conductive cubes that can interact with light and organized them in patterned structures that confine and relay light\u2019s electromagnetic signal. This demonstration is a step toward potentially faster computer chips and more perceptive [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134847","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=134847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}