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Travelling with physics

February 4, 2019

New MIT LASER device whispers secret sounds into


your ear

This method isn't the first to transmit sound Do you know?


waves using lasers. But, it is the loudest. This
machine described in a paper published on Jan  On this day, In 1936, A
radioactive element,
25th in the journal optic letters, relies on
RADIUM, is made
wiggling a laser back and forth across the water synthetically for the first
molecules in the air by someone's ear. That time.
wiggling motion jolts the water molecules into  In 1967, the unmanned
motion, causing them to bang against the Lunar Orbiter 3 lifts off on
a mission that included
surrounding air molecules & produce sound
identifying landing sites
waves. for Apollo program.

To be continued

Mars rover Curiosity makes first gravity- Another exo-planet planet discovered
measuring traverse on the Red Planet and is named as “Super Earth”

A clever use of non-science engineering data from An exo-planet discovered 40 light years
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has let a team of away caused an excitement among Astronomers
researchers, including an Arizona State University in April, 2018 it has the potential to give us the
graduate student, measure the density of rock layers in best opportunity ever to find Intelligent life.
96-mile-wide Gale Crater. The "SUPER-Earth" called LHS1140b is
The findings, to be published February 1, 2019, in around 1.4 times of our earth but seven times its
the journal Science, show that the layers are more mass. It is rocky and orbits a quite star in our
porous than scientists had suspected. The discovery also galactic neighborhood.
gives scientists a novel technique to use in the future as In future scientists observe it through
the rover continues its trek across the crater and up Hubble Space Telescope and James Webb Space
Mount Sharp, a three-mile-high mountain in its center. Telescope.
Scientists estimated a grain density of 2810 “So by this discovery we found a place to live
kilograms per cubic meter; however the bulk density and also discovered the living relatives, who are
that came out of our study is a lot less -- 1680 kilograms at 40 Light years away from us.”
per cubic meter."

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Continuation
The point of all this is to send messages to individuals in a crowd without blasting them over loudspeakers.
In the paper, the researchers said that some laser-sound techniques are under development by the military.
One remarkable point is that the underlying concept here isn't very new. The paper notes that Alexander
Graham Bell, who invented the first practical telephone, patented a device back in 1880 along with a partner
named Charles Sumner Tainter that transmitted sounds via light.
The key differences, of course, in the modern MIT system are that the receiver material is just ambient water
vapor, and that the light is a precision laser.

Conversion of Wi-Fi Signals to Electricity

“MIT scientists have developed the first fully flexible device that can convert energy from Wi-Fi signals
into electricity, paving the way for wirelessly powering everyday electronics without batteries.”
Devices that convert AC electromagnetic waves into DC electricity are known as “rectennas”.
The researchers demonstrate a new kind of rectenna described in a study appearing in the journal “Nature”,
that uses that uses a flexible radio frequency (RF) antenna that captures electromagnetic waves including those
carrying Wi-Fi as AC waveforms.
The antenna is then connected to a novel device made out of 2-dimensional semiconductors just a few atoms
thick. The signal travels into the semiconductor which converts it into a DC voltage that could be used to power
electric current or recharge batteries. Moreover the device can be fabricated in a roll-to-roll process to cover very
large areas.
MIT researchers used a super thin and malleable material known as “Molybdenum Disulfide (MOS2)”,
one of the thinnest semiconductors in the world to surpass this limitation.

In experiments, the researcher’s device can produce about “40 micro watts when exposed to typical power
levels of Wi-Fi signals (around 150 micro watts). This is more than enough power to light up a “simple mobile
display or silicon chips”.
At the typical Wi-Fi power level, the power efficiency of the rectifier is about “30 per cent”. For reference,
today’s best “silicon and gallium arsenide rectennas” made from rigid more expensive silicon and gallium
arsenide around 50 to 60 per cent.
This device could power large area electronics wearable’s and even medical devices to beam data to doctors.

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A new phase of internet has discovered known as “Quantum Internet”


The Goal of worldwide "QUANTAM INTERNET" could be one step closure.
Thanks to new experiments by researchers in Japan and Canada who have made the first ever Quantum
Repeater that works using an All-photonic protocol.

The scheme importantly allows for the time reversed adaptive bell measurement which is a key component for
all-photonic Quantum Repeaters.
It is based on Optical devices alone and doesn't require Quantum Memory (or) Quantum Error correction.

The internet as we know it was not designed to be secure, and hacking, Break-ins and ESPIONAGE are
unfortunately far for the Course today.
A Quantum internet would be much more secure-as well as being much faster-since it exploits key features of
Quantum physics such as Quantum Entanglement.

~C V RAMAN CLUB

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