Author Archives: rberkowitz

Quantum Thermal Transistor Amplifies Heat Currents

Posted on August 9, 2022 by rberkowitz

A three-qubit transistor design offers a way to manipulate the system’s heat flow by hitting one of the qubits with a laser. Continue reading →

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A Tiny Photonic Nose Captures Odor Fingerprints

Posted on August 2, 2022 by rberkowitz

A bio-inspired detector the size of a US penny can identify the unique odor profiles of different gases, something that could help in detecting food freshness and product counterfeits and in designing new cosmetics. Continue reading →

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Curved Light Channels Have Better Coupling

Posted on July 26, 2022 by rberkowitz

More frequencies of light can pass between two coupled wavy waveguides than between two coupled straight ones, something that could allow for more flexible designs of optics-based circuits on silicon chips. Continue reading →

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Extra-Stable Light Produced by Levitated Nanoparticle

Posted on July 26, 2022 by rberkowitz

A trapped nanoparticle interacting with a laser provides a simple way to generate squeezed light, which has an unusually low level of fluctuations. Read more in APS Physics…

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New Ultrathin Capacitor Could Enable Energy-Efficient Microchips

Posted on July 13, 2022 by rberkowitz

Scientists turn century-old material into a thin film for next-gen memory and logic devices. Continue reading →

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Defects Control Silica’s Viscosity

Posted on July 4, 2022 by rberkowitz

The quirky temperature dependence of liquid silica’s viscosity comes from the liquid equivalent of crystal defects, according to new simulations. Continue reading →

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Mirror Image Pinpoints a Nanoparticle’s Position

Posted on June 28, 2022 by rberkowitz

A scattered laser beam’s interaction with itself creates a motion-detection method precise enough to determine whether a trapped particle is in its ground state. Continue reading →

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How Connected Cars Can Map Urban Heat Islands

Posted on June 21, 2022 by rberkowitz

Crowdsourced vehicle data trace the contours of dangerous city temperatures. Continue reading →

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Early JWST targets set the stage for the next decade of observations

Posted on June 8, 2022 by rberkowitz

Data gathered by the telescope in its first five months of science will show what it’s capable of while enabling insight into ancient galaxies, newborn planets, and more. Continue reading →

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Martian Rocks Produced Bio-Friendly Gas Long Ago

Posted on June 7, 2022 by rberkowitz

Iron-rich rocks in Minnesota give a proxy view into how aqueous interactions with Martian rocks could have shaped that planet’s early environment Continue reading →

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