{"id":149126,"date":"2022-10-30T00:29:07","date_gmt":"2022-10-30T05:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/simple-machine-may-pave-the-way-for-more-powerful-cell-phones-and-wifi"},"modified":"2022-10-30T00:29:07","modified_gmt":"2022-10-30T05:29:07","slug":"simple-machine-may-pave-the-way-for-more-powerful-cell-phones-and-wifi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/simple-machine-may-pave-the-way-for-more-powerful-cell-phones-and-wifi","title":{"rendered":"Simple machine may pave the way for more powerful cell phones and WiFi"},"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\/uguY-cJnoxA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The next generation of phones and wireless devices will need new antennae to access higher and higher frequency ranges. One way to make antennae that work at tens of gigahertz\u2014the frequencies needed for 5G and higher devices\u2014is to braid filaments about 1 micrometer in diameter. But today\u2019s industrial fabrication techniques won\u2019t work on fibers that small.<\/p>\n<p>Now a team of researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) has developed a simple machine that uses the surface tension of water to grab and manipulate microscopic objects, offering a potentially powerful tool for nanoscopic manufacturing.<\/p>\n<p>The research is published in Nature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The next generation of phones and wireless devices will need new antennae to access higher and higher frequency ranges. One way to make antennae that work at tens of gigahertz\u2014the frequencies needed for 5G and higher devices\u2014is to braid filaments about 1 micrometer in diameter. But today\u2019s industrial fabrication techniques won\u2019t work on fibers that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149126","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}