{"id":201990,"date":"2024-12-20T04:28:14","date_gmt":"2024-12-20T10:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/purple-diamond-maser-could-one-day-amplify-signals-from-deep-space"},"modified":"2024-12-20T04:28:14","modified_gmt":"2024-12-20T10:28:14","slug":"purple-diamond-maser-could-one-day-amplify-signals-from-deep-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/purple-diamond-maser-could-one-day-amplify-signals-from-deep-space","title":{"rendered":"Purple diamond maser could one day amplify signals from deep space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/purple-diamond-maser-could-one-day-amplify-signals-from-deep-space3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>UNSW engineers have developed and built a special maser system that boosts microwave signals\u2014such as those from deep space\u2014but does not need to be super-cooled.<\/p>\n<p>They say that diamonds are a girl\u2019s best friend\u2014but that might also soon be true for astronomers and astrophysicists following the new research. The team of quantum experts have developed a device known as a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/maser\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">maser<\/a> which uses a specially created purple diamond to amplify weak microwave signals, such as those which can come from <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/deep+space\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">deep space<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Most importantly, their maser works at room temperature, whereas previous such devices needed to be super-cooled, at great expense, down to about minus 269\u00b0C.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UNSW engineers have developed and built a special maser system that boosts microwave signals\u2014such as those from deep space\u2014but does not need to be super-cooled. They say that diamonds are a girl\u2019s best friend\u2014but that might also soon be true for astronomers and astrophysicists following the new research. The team of quantum experts have developed [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1617,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201990","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}