Engineering crystals for better telecommunications | Neil Alford
Channel: World Economic Forum
Date: 2016-02-19

Like a laser amplifies light, a maser amplifies microwaves. Masers can help communications to avoid electro-magnetic interference problems. Neil Alford, Vice-Dean for Research at the Faculty of Engineering, Imperial College London, explains how his lab made masers that work at room temperature and could be miniaturised to fit on a circuit board.

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