Technology update
Apr 5, 2007
Nanobeams get in rhythm
The oscillations of two nanomechanical resonators can become synchronized, according to work by physicists in the US and South Korea. The effect – which is the nanoscale version of the phenomenon first observed by Dutch scientist Christiaan Huygens over 300 years ago – could be used to develop smaller devices for wireless communications and for making neural network computers.
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