Researchers Believe Nanoresonators Could Fix Dropped Calls
Scientists at Purdue University believe that nanoresonators might be useful to reduce the number of dropped calls, busy signals and negatively impacted data downloads in cellphones and other mobile devices.
The idea: Make much more effective use of the available spectrum with exactly defined channels, reject noise and allow signals only near a given frequency to pass.
To achieve this goal, the scientists created "nanoelectromechanical resonators" that integrate "a tiny beam of silicon that vibrates when voltage is applied." This beam, about two microns long and 130 nanometers wide, vibrate side-to-side or up and down and apparently have shown to control their vibration frequencies better than other resonators. According to the scientists, the resonators can be tuned for lower power consumption or higher performance.
"A vivid example [for this nanoresonator] is a tunable filter," said Saeed Mohammadi, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, at Purdue. "It is very difficult to make a good tunable filter with transistors, inductors and other electronic components, but a simple nanomechanical resonator can do the job with much better performance and at a fraction of the power."
According to Mohammadi, the nanoresonator can be easily mass-produced using a using silicon-on-insulator process. There was no information whether these resonators will be commercialized, but Purdue said that it has filed a patent application protecting the concept.
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joytech22 Could they use this same technology for ADSL2+ and improve the SNR of our connections...?Reply
That could possibly boost my internet speed quite high. -
jdog2pt0 joytech22Could they use this same technology for ADSL2+ and improve the SNR of our connections...?That could possibly boost my internet speed quite high.Reply
It's called VDSL. It's the next technology up from ADSL, and if I remember correctly it's allows up to 100mbps. My ISP just recently upgraded from ADSL to VDSL and we're on a 40mbps package. -
sixdegree Reply"a tiny beam of silicon that vibrates when voltage is applied."
A miniaturized vibrator then? Thank you science. -
thecolorblue A Bad DayAnd the bandwidth caps with connection throttling will still stay in place.thisReply -
freggo sixdegreeA miniaturized vibrator then? Thank you science.Reply
There will be a 'black edition' of course :-)
And I shut up now :-)