{"id":149603,"date":"2022-11-06T15:22:20","date_gmt":"2022-11-06T21:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/simple-3d-printed-device-may-pave-the-way-for-far-more-powerful-cell-phones-and-wifi"},"modified":"2022-11-06T15:22:20","modified_gmt":"2022-11-06T21:22:20","slug":"simple-3d-printed-device-may-pave-the-way-for-far-more-powerful-cell-phones-and-wifi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/simple-3d-printed-device-may-pave-the-way-for-far-more-powerful-cell-phones-and-wifi","title":{"rendered":"Simple 3D-Printed Device May Pave the Way for Far 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><strong>A 3D-printed device in a tank of water braids nanowires and moves microparticles.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>New antennae to access higher and higher frequency ranges will be needed for the next generation of phones and wireless devices. One way to make antennae that work at tens of gigahertz \u2014 the frequencies needed for 5G and higher devices \u2014 is to braid filaments about 1 micrometer in diameter. However, today\u2019s industrial fabrication techniques won\u2019t work on fibers that small.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIt was a shout-out-loud-in-joy moment when \u2014 on our first try \u2014 we crossed two fibers using only a piece of plastic, a water tank, and a stage that moves up and down.\u201d \u2014<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 3D-printed device in a tank of water braids nanowires and moves microparticles. New antennae to access higher and higher frequency ranges will be needed for the next generation of phones and wireless devices. One way to make antennae that work at tens of gigahertz \u2014 the frequencies needed for 5G and higher devices \u2014 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1512,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-phones","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149603","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}