{"id":27534,"date":"2016-07-05T22:47:15","date_gmt":"2016-07-06T05:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/a-little-impurity-makes-nanolasers-shine"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:09:21","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:09:21","slug":"a-little-impurity-makes-nanolasers-shine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/a-little-impurity-makes-nanolasers-shine","title":{"rendered":"A little impurity makes nanolasers shine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-little-impurity-makes-nanolasers-shine.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nice.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Researcher Tim Burgess added atoms of zinc to lasers one hundredth the diameter of a human hair and made of gallium arsenide \u2014 a material used extensively in smartphones and other electronic devices.<\/p>\n<p>The impurities led to a 100 times improvement in the amount of light from the lasers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNormally you wouldn\u2019t even bother looking for light from nanocrystals of gallium arsenide \u2014 we were initially adding zinc simply to improve the electrical conductivity,\u201d said Mr Burgess, a PhD student in the ANU Research School of Physics and Engineering.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2016\/07\/160705102445.htm\">https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2016\/07\/160705102445.htm<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nice. Researcher Tim Burgess added atoms of zinc to lasers one hundredth the diameter of a human hair and made of gallium arsenide \u2014 a material used extensively in smartphones and other electronic devices. The impurities led to a 100 times improvement in the amount of light from the lasers. \u201cNormally you wouldn\u2019t even bother [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1512,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-phones","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27534","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27534"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61302,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27534\/revisions\/61302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}