Russian and European scientists believe T-rays will be faster than electromagnetic fields when running computers. Will T-rays make our computers faster?
No one looks forward to going to the airport and in recent years the experience has been more unpleasant thanks to TSAs. Security is important, but there’s a sense of dread and unease when walking through a body scanner. But while getting scanned to make sure you have the proper sized shampoo, did you ever think the TSA technology could be used to speed up your computer? Russian and European scientists are currently testing the method and published their findings in Nature.
No matter how fast your computer is, it can always be faster. Memory is what keeps our computers from being lightning fast. Memory cells on a PC are switched via an external magnetic field, but it’s not necessarily the fastest method. But this new process proposed by scientists would forego that. Rather it would use terahertz radiation (T-rays), the same ones found on airport bdy scanners. The T-rays could speed up the rate at which cells reset by a factor of 1000. This could then be used to make faster memory.
T-rays (Terahertz-driven anisotropy fields) emit a series of short electromagnetic pulses that hit the cells at high terahertz frequencies making them faster than the average electromagnetic field. But don’t expect to find t-rays blasting through computers any time soon. Scientists are still testing the method. So far they’ve tested it on a weak ferromagnet, thulium orthoferrite (TmFeO) with great success. The results also showed the T-rays’ effect was ten times greater than the external magnetic field making this method faster and more efficient. But the T-rays have yet to be tested on computer memory cells. You’ll have to wait on getting a super speedy computer.
Because T-rays can dish out quick, precise scans of organic and mechanical material, they have other uses as well. Some proposals include looking for weapons inside of luggage, scanning broken microchips, and looking into fragile texts. If this method does actually work on computer memory cells, it would be a huge improvement for high performance computers. Even the tiniest boost could make a big difference depending on the application. Scientists are still working out all the kinks but hopefully we’ll have an update on this development soon.
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