{"id":27599,"date":"2016-07-08T08:01:43","date_gmt":"2016-07-08T15:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/new-record-in-microwave-detection"},"modified":"2017-06-04T19:52:13","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T02:52:13","slug":"new-record-in-microwave-detection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/new-record-in-microwave-detection","title":{"rendered":"New record in microwave detection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-record-in-microwave-detection.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Aalto University scientists have broken the world record by fourteen fold in the energy resolution of thermal photodetection.<\/p>\n<p>The record was made using a partially superconducting microwave detector. The discovery may lead to ultrasensitive cameras and accessories for the emerging quantum computer.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:none;\" itemprop=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-record-in-microwave-detection.jpg\" alt=\"Artistic image of a hybrid superconductor-metal microwave detector\" border=\"0\" align=\"middle\"><\/p>\n<p>Figure 1: Artistic image of a hybrid superconductor-metal microwave detector. (Image: Ella Maru Sudio) <\/p>\n<p>The first of the two key enabling developments is the new detector design consisting of tiny pieces of superconducting aluminum and a golden nanowire. This design guarantees both efficient absorption of incoming photons and very sensitive readout. The whole detector is smaller than a single human blood cell.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nanowerk.com\/nanotechnology-news\/newsid=43889.php\">http:\/\/www.nanowerk.com\/nanotechnology-news\/newsid=43889.php<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aalto University scientists have broken the world record by fourteen fold in the energy resolution of thermal photodetection. The record was made using a partially superconducting microwave detector. The discovery may lead to ultrasensitive cameras and accessories for the emerging quantum computer. Figure 1: Artistic image of a hybrid superconductor-metal microwave detector. (Image: Ella Maru [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,4,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-nanotechnology","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27599","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=27599"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66992,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27599\/revisions\/66992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}