{"id":184087,"date":"2024-03-01T13:46:32","date_gmt":"2024-03-01T19:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/new-maser-in-a-shoebox-promises-portable-precision"},"modified":"2024-03-01T13:46:32","modified_gmt":"2024-03-01T19:46:32","slug":"new-maser-in-a-shoebox-promises-portable-precision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/new-maser-in-a-shoebox-promises-portable-precision","title":{"rendered":"New maser in a \u2018shoebox\u2019 promises portable precision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-maser-in-a-shoebox-promises-portable-precision3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers in Imperial College London\u2019s Department of Materials have developed a new portable maser that can fit the size of a shoebox.<\/p>\n<p>Imperial College London pioneered the discovery of room-temperature solid-state masers in 2012, highlighting their ability to amplify extremely faint electrical signals and demonstrate high-frequency stability. This was a significant discovery because <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/microwave+signals\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">microwave signals<\/a> can pass through the Earth\u2019s atmosphere more easily than other wavelengths of light. Additionally, microwaves have the capability to penetrate through the human body, a feat not achievable by lasers.<\/p>\n<p>Masers have extensive applications in telecommunications systems\u2014everything from mobile phone networks to satellite navigation systems. They also have a key role in advancing <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/quantum+computing\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">quantum computing<\/a> and improving medical imaging techniques, like MRI machines. They are typically large, bulky, stationary equipment found only in research laboratories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers in Imperial College London\u2019s Department of Materials have developed a new portable maser that can fit the size of a shoebox. Imperial College London pioneered the discovery of room-temperature solid-state masers in 2012, highlighting their ability to amplify extremely faint electrical signals and demonstrate high-frequency stability. This was a significant discovery because microwave signals [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,1512,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-mobile-phones","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184087","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=184087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184087\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}