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IEEE Spectrum May 2013 Mitchell Lazarus |
When Spectrum Auctions Fail For some microwave links, cooperation beats competition as a way to share the air  |
IEEE Spectrum January 2012 Katie M. Palmer |
Intellectual Ventures Invents Beam-Steering Metamaterials Antenna IV and others aim at cheap in-flight broadband  |
Technology Research News November 17, 2004 Eric Smalley |
Nanotubes Tune in Light Carbon nanotubes can act as antennas, but instead of transmitting and receiving radio waves, antennas of their size pick up the nanoscale wavelengths of visible light.  |
IEEE Spectrum November 2006 Monte Ross |
The New Search for E.T. If extraterrestrials are trying to communicate with us, they're probably using lasers, not radio waves.  |
IEEE Spectrum February 2008 Behzad Razavi |
Gadgets Gab at 60 GHz Cheap silicon transceivers broadcasting in this still-unlicensed band may usher in the hi-def wireless home  |
IEEE Spectrum April 2009 Koch & Prasad |
The Universal Handset Software-defined radio will let cellphones speak Wi-Fi, 3G, WiMax, and more.  |
Scientific American September 2008 Mark Wolverton |
Digital Upgrades for a Radio Astronomy Revolution Using more sophisticated computers and electronics will vastly increase the resolution, sensitivity and data capacity of the Very Large Array telescope  |
Home Theater March 2003 Peter H. Putman |
Got HDTV? Home Theater's guide to using indoor and outdoor antennas to pick up digital TV broadcasts  |
IEEE Spectrum October 2005 Alexander Hellemans |
Sins Of Transmission? Vatican Radio's high-power antennas stand accused of causing cancer. This case is but the latest episode in a half-century-long scientific controversy.  |
IEEE Spectrum February 2009 Schneider & Ross |
Antennas for the New Airwaves This month's planned shutdown of analog broadcast TV in the United States will bring antenna technology back into the spotlight.  |
IEEE Spectrum August 2006 Alexander Hellemans |
Engineering Warms To Frozen Light Separate groups in the U.S. and Europe say that they have built and successfully tested more compact, rugged, and efficient means of delaying light pulses. Their work may clear the way for applications in optical switching and quantum communications.  |
BusinessWeek December 15, 2003 Catherine Yang |
Beyond Wi-Fi: A New Wireless Age Three technologies will boost the capacity of our airwaves -- and innovation, too  |
IEEE Spectrum October 2006 Stephen Cass |
Hardware for Your Software Radio What's going to be the next big thing in wireless technology? One bet is software-defined radio, and thanks to a piece of hardware called the Universal Software Radio Peripheral, or USRP, you can get right to the bleeding edge today.  |
IEEE Spectrum February 2007 Roy Rubenstein |
Radios Get Smart But can they be trusted to roam the spectrum and not interfere with existing users? Some analysts say it's only a matter of time before cognitive radios get into the commercial arena, because the economics are compelling.  |
Technology Research News June 4, 2003 Eric Smalley |
Shock waves tune light Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have used a computer simulation to show that sending shock waves through photonic crystals could lead to faster and cheaper telecommunications devices, more efficient solar cells, and advances in quantum computing.  |
Chemistry World January 16, 2012 Kate McAlpine |
Stripped down spectroscopy to probe single molecules Spectroscopy, a key method of identifying atoms and molecules with light, has been taken to its most fundamental level - a single photon absorbed by a single molecule.  |
Technology Research News August 10, 2005 Eric Smalley |
Pixels speed quantum crypto Crossing quantum physics with computer displays yields a new way of encoding information in photons. Using photons as pixels lets researchers encode more information per photon, promising higher data rates for quantum cryptography.  |
IEEE Spectrum November 2008 Tekla S. Perry |
Unconverted Masses The switch to digital television is supposed to be simple. It's not  |
IEEE Spectrum October 2010 Mitchell Lazarus |
The Great Radio Spectrum Famine Mobile broadband is consuming the available radio spectrum. Serving up more won't be easy  |
National Defense April 2008 Grace V. Jean |
A Makeover for Top-Heavy Navy Ships? If the work of Office of Naval Research scientists comes to fruition, antennas on the tops of ships might one day disappear as radio frequency apertures are integrated into the hulls and superstructures of the ships themselves.  |
Technology Research News June 2, 2004 Eric Smalley |
Atom-Photon Link Demoed Getting atoms and photons to exchange information is crucial for many quantum computer designs. The first verified atom-photon entanglement shows that it's not so hard to do, as long as you can accept a low success rate.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2005 John Keller |
Transforming radio communications The next frontier of wireless radio communications is widely believed to be "cognitive radio" -- RF transceivers that use artificial intelligence, neural networks, or other advanced technologies to make informed decisions based on past usage.  |
Home Theater June 18, 2009 |
DTV Weak? Try Double Rescan Has your television reception survived the DTV transition not quite fully intact? Here are a few tips from the Federal Communications Commission, including one we haven't heard before.  |
BusinessWeek July 22, 2010 Amy Thomson |
Antennas: Jobs Was Right. They're Still a Challenge As phones continue to shrink, fitting antennas in and making them work correctly often comes down to trial and error.  |
Home Toys June 2003 John Hansen |
The Future for Radios is Digital In coming months, AM/FM radio listeners who would like to enjoy higher quality sound will not have to sign up for satellite radio subscriptions or install considerably more expensive radio receivers to relive the sweet sounds of last week's Nora Jones concert on the drive to work.  |
IEEE Spectrum October 2008 Tekla S. Perry |
Digital Dilemma Converting to digital television is supposed to be simple, but it's not.  |
Technology Research News February 12, 2003 Eric Smalley |
Teleportation goes the distance Teleportation makes it possible to transmit the quantum states, or structural information, of photons from one place to another. And making photons from one location materialize at another without traveling the distance between opens the way for sending messages long distances.  |
PC Magazine December 21, 2005 Craig Ellison |
Could You RepeatThat? To use your XM Satellite Radio receiver indoors, you need to have a window that faces in the right direction.  |
National Defense September 2014 Christina Munnell |
DARPA Program Aims to Reduce Cost of Electronic Antenna Systems A Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency program is seeking to sharply reduce the cost and years it takes to develop electronically scanned array antennas.  |
Wired February 2004 John Geirland |
The Quiet Zone Cell phones, pagers, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth -- the wireless revolution is everywhere. Except here, a site in rural West Virginia virtually free of man-made electromagnetic pollution, the perfect place for studying radio waves from space. But it's a tough job keeping the spectrum quiet.  |
Technology Research News February 25, 2004 Eric Smalley |
Simple optics make quantum relay Quantum cryptography devices and networks, which transport photons whose properties can be used to represent the 1s and 0s of digital information, could also benefit from repeaters.  |
BusinessWeek May 16, 2005 Stephen H. Wildstrom |
Wi-Fi: Pumping Up The Volume New technology called MIMO extends the range throughout your house.  |
Industrial Physicist Jennifer Ouellette |
Quantum Key Distribution Several companies have focused on bringing one aspect of quantum communications to market, quantum key distribution, used to exchange secret keys that protect data during transmission.  |
Technology Research News January 29, 2003 Eric Smalley |
Faster quantum crypto demoed Working out how to use only standard telecommunications gear to transmit cryptographic keys could dramatically improve quantum cryptography's paltry performance.  |
AskMen.com Bernie Alexander |
Satellite Radio: Signals From Space With the recent news of Howard Stern moving over to this medium, the emergence of satellite radio may be the start of a media revolution.  |
Technology Research News September 24, 2003 Eric Smalley |
Laser made from single atom The simplest possible laser -- a single atom -- has been on the drawing board for decades. Researchers have finally achieved the extremely precise control needed to make a laser from just one atom. The first demonstration of a single-atom laser showed that it's a different animal -- it produces quantum light.  |
Technology Research News November 5, 2003 |
Electrons spin magnetic fields Spintronics researchers are looking for ways to control and use electron spin. Researchers from Cornell University and Yale University have brought the field a step forward by showing that a flow of electrons that all have the same spin can transfer angular momentum to magnetic material.  |
Technology Research News September 22, 2004 Eric Smalley |
Bank Transfer Demos Quantum Crypto As quantum cryptography nears practical application, researchers are working on the next generation of the technology, which includes the weird quantum phenomenon of entanglement.  |
Technology Research News November 5, 2003 |
Rig fires more photon pairs Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have moved the field of quantum communications forward with entangled photon beams that contain specific wavelengths of light and are relatively bright.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2005 |
Linearly polarized log-periodic antenna The R&S HL033 linearly polarized log-periodic antenna is designed for cramped labs, military, and security applications where antenna size is a factor.  |
Popular Mechanics August 26, 2008 |
Lasers Could Send World's Most Secure Messages Through Space Scientists at an Italian observatory this year succeeded in firing lasers at the mirror-covered Ajisai Japanese satellite, proving that a sequence of photons can travel great distances through space.  |
Technology Research News April 9, 2003 Eric Smalley |
Fiber loop makes quantum memory A relatively simple device that sends individual photons cycling through a fiber-optic loop could provide the memory needed to make ultra powerful computers that use the quantum states of light as bits.  |
Technology Research News March 9, 2005 |
Quantum Crypto Scheme Goes One-Way Quantum cryptography researchers from Toshiba Research have demonstrated a one-way quantum key distribution system that automatically compensates for phase drift.  |
T.H.E. Journal October 2006 Stephen R. Leeolou |
Breaking Up the Bottleneck The new affordability of ultra-high-speed networks is relieving K-12 schools of insufficient bandwidth and opening them up to a world of digital education.  |
PC Magazine March 14, 2007 Dan Evans |
Tune in to Digital Radio Digital broadcasting and higher-definition signals are revolutionizing television. Can they do the same for another traditionally analog medium -- the radio?  |
Home Theater September 2001 Mike Wood |
Home Theater Boot Camp: Receiving HDTV A three-step guide to receiving HDTV signals...  |
Technology Research News April 21, 2004 Eric Smalley |
Optical Quantum Memory Designed Quantum computers that use photons rather than atoms or electrons are appealing because the equipment needed to handle them can be relatively simple. A scheme for trapping photons in fiber-optic loops and replacing the photons that the loops absorb could be the answer.  |
Linux Journal April 14, 2006 Doc Searls |
The Rise of Media Independence The future of radio increasingly will be restricted by a growing assortment of other sources of what we've come to call "content."  |
PC Magazine February 3, 2004 Bill Howard |
Surf Satellite Radio Why stream satellite radio to your PC for $9.95 a month when Internet radio is free?  |
Popular Mechanics September 18, 2008 Paul Tolme |
High in Andes, World's Next Super Scope Takes Shape: First Look High-tech teams from across the globe are racing to 16,000 ft. in the Chilean Andes to erect ALMA, which will become this planet's largest and most advanced radio telescope when it's completed in 2012.  |