{"id":224678,"date":"2025-11-07T01:20:52","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T07:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/gyromorphs-combine-liquid-and-crystal-traits-to-enhance-light-based-computers"},"modified":"2025-11-07T01:20:52","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T07:20:52","slug":"gyromorphs-combine-liquid-and-crystal-traits-to-enhance-light-based-computers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/gyromorphs-combine-liquid-and-crystal-traits-to-enhance-light-based-computers","title":{"rendered":"Gyromorphs combine liquid and crystal traits to enhance light-based computers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/gyromorphs-combine-liquid-and-crystal-traits-to-enhance-light-based-computers.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have been developing computers that deploy light (photons) rather than electricity to power storage and calculations. These light-based computers have the potential to be more energy efficient than traditional computers while also running calculations at greater speeds.<\/p>\n<p>However, a major challenge in the production of light-based computers\u2014still in their infancy\u2014is successfully rerouting microscopic light signals on a computer chip with minimal loss in <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/signal+strength\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">signal strength<\/a>. This is fundamentally a materials-design problem. These computers require a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/lightweight+material\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">lightweight material<\/a> to block additional light from all incoming directions\u2014what\u2019s known as an \u201cisotropic bandgap material\u201d\u2014in order to maintain signal strength.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists at New York University report the discovery of gyromorphs\u2014a material that combines the seemingly incompatible properties of liquids and crystals and that performs better than any other known structure in blocking light from all incoming angles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have been developing computers that deploy light (photons) rather than electricity to power storage and calculations. These light-based computers have the potential to be more energy efficient than traditional computers while also running calculations at greater speeds. However, a major challenge in the production of light-based computers\u2014still in their infancy\u2014is successfully rerouting microscopic light [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224678","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=224678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}