{"id":146702,"date":"2022-09-20T03:22:19","date_gmt":"2022-09-20T08:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/this-environmentally-friendly-quantum-sensor-runs-on-sunlight"},"modified":"2022-09-20T03:22:19","modified_gmt":"2022-09-20T08:22:19","slug":"this-environmentally-friendly-quantum-sensor-runs-on-sunlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/this-environmentally-friendly-quantum-sensor-runs-on-sunlight","title":{"rendered":"This Environmentally Friendly Quantum Sensor Runs On Sunlight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-environmentally-friendly-quantum-sensor-runs-on-sunlight.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b> Quantum tech is going green.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>A new take on highly sensitive magnetic field sensors ditches the power-hungry lasers that previous devices have relied on to make their measurements and replaces them with sunlight. Lasers can gobble 100 watts or so of power \u2014 like keeping a bright lightbulb burning. The innovation potentially untethers quantum sensors from that energy need. The result is an environmentally friendly prototype on the forefront of technology, researchers report in an upcoming issue of Physical Review X Energy.<\/p>\n<p>The big twist is in how the device uses sunlight. It doesn\u2019t use solar cells to convert light into electricity. Instead, the sunlight does the job of the laser\u2019s light, says Jiangfeng Du, a physicist at the University of Science and Technology of China in Hefei.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quantum tech is going green. A new take on highly sensitive magnetic field sensors ditches the power-hungry lasers that previous devices have relied on to make their measurements and replaces them with sunlight. Lasers can gobble 100 watts or so of power \u2014 like keeping a bright lightbulb burning. The innovation potentially untethers quantum sensors [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1617,1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-physics","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146702","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}