Imperial College London’s Department of Materials has made a groundbreaking development with a new portable maser that is the size of a shoebox.
Masers are crucial in telecommunications, quantum computing, and medical imaging, but they are typically large and stationary. However, a recent study has produced a compact and portable maser that can amplify microwave signals at an affordable cost. This new device, weighing just a few kilograms and the size of a shoebox, uses a pentacene gain material to “mase” at room temperature.
Dr. Wern Ng, the author of the paper published in Applied Physics Letters, explained that this new maser eliminates the need for very cold temperatures and vacuums, making it much lighter and more efficient.
2024-03-01 18:00:05
Source from phys.org