{"id":225485,"date":"2025-11-20T01:26:47","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T07:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/acoustic-waves-could-be-the-key-to-orbitronic-devices"},"modified":"2025-11-20T01:26:47","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T07:26:47","slug":"acoustic-waves-could-be-the-key-to-orbitronic-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/acoustic-waves-could-be-the-key-to-orbitronic-devices","title":{"rendered":"Acoustic waves could be the key to orbitronic devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/acoustic-waves-could-be-the-key-to-orbitronic-devices.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Electronics traditionally rely on harnessing the electron\u2019s charge, but researchers are now exploring the possibility of harnessing its other intrinsic properties. In a <i>Nature Communications<\/i> study, scientists from Japan demonstrated that sound waves in certain solids can generate orbital currents\u2014flow of electron orbital angular momentum.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-025-62703-z\" target=\"_blank\">Their findings<\/a> establish a foundation for realizing next-generation \u201corbitronic\u201d devices using existing acoustic technology.<\/p>\n<p>Since the discovery of electricity, countless advancements in technology have relied on harnessing the electron\u2019s charge, which is the fundamental principle behind most traditional electronics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electronics traditionally rely on harnessing the electron\u2019s charge, but researchers are now exploring the possibility of harnessing its other intrinsic properties. In a Nature Communications study, scientists from Japan demonstrated that sound waves in certain solids can generate orbital currents\u2014flow of electron orbital angular momentum. Their findings establish a foundation for realizing next-generation \u201corbitronic\u201d devices [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1694],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225485","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=225485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}