{"id":140248,"date":"2022-06-07T15:04:24","date_gmt":"2022-06-07T20:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/could-light-become-the-new-electricity"},"modified":"2022-06-07T15:04:24","modified_gmt":"2022-06-07T20:04:24","slug":"could-light-become-the-new-electricity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/could-light-become-the-new-electricity","title":{"rendered":"Could light become the new electricity?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/could-light-become-the-new-electricity.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Circa 2019<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Mark Lawrence (link is external), a postdoctoral scholar in materials science and engineering at Stanford, has moved a step closer to this future with a scheme to make a photon diode \u2014 a device that allows light to only flow in one direction \u2014 which, unlike other light-based diodes, is small enough for consumer electronics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circa 2019 Mark Lawrence (link is external), a postdoctoral scholar in materials science and engineering at Stanford, has moved a step closer to this future with a scheme to make a photon diode \u2014 a device that allows light to only flow in one direction \u2014 which, unlike other light-based diodes, is small enough for [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140248","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}