{"id":229288,"date":"2026-01-18T21:06:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T03:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/engineers-just-created-a-phonon-laser-that-could-shrink-your-next-smartphone"},"modified":"2026-01-18T21:06:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T03:06:15","slug":"engineers-just-created-a-phonon-laser-that-could-shrink-your-next-smartphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/engineers-just-created-a-phonon-laser-that-could-shrink-your-next-smartphone","title":{"rendered":"Engineers just created a \u201cphonon laser\u201d that could shrink your next smartphone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/engineers-just-created-a-phonon-laser-that-could-shrink-your-next-smartphone.webp\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Engineers have created a device that generates incredibly tiny, earthquake-like vibrations on a microchip\u2014and it could transform future electronics. Using a new kind of \u201cphonon laser,\u201d the team can produce ultra-fast surface waves that already play a hidden role in smartphones, GPS systems, and wireless tech. Unlike today\u2019s bulky setups, this single-chip device could deliver far higher performance using less power, opening the door to smaller, faster, and more efficient phones and wireless devices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Engineers have created a device that generates incredibly tiny, earthquake-like vibrations on a microchip\u2014and it could transform future electronics. Using a new kind of \u201cphonon laser,\u201d the team can produce ultra-fast surface waves that already play a hidden role in smartphones, GPS systems, and wireless tech. Unlike today\u2019s bulky setups, this single-chip device could deliver [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229288","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}