Advances in technology to support AI and edge computing will likely drive a shift away from quartz timing toward silicon MEMS ...

Atomic clocks were believed to be a huge improvement on quartz clocks because of the atom's stability. In the atomic clock, a quartz crystal oscillator is combined with an ensemble of atoms.

Quartz watches, on the other hand, use a battery to power a quartz crystal oscillator, offering unmatched accuracy and low maintenance. They’re lightweight, affordable, and ideal for those seeking ...

Monitoring of blood coagulation and fibrinolysis is an important issue in treatment of patients with cardiovascular problems and in surgery when blood gets into contact with artificial surfaces. In ...

A team of researchers has developed a novel method for using cholesteric liquid crystals in optical microcavities. The ...

Centrosymmetric crystals have always absorbed equal amounts of left- and right-handed circularly polarized light—until now ...

Imagine walking down the street and knowing that each step you take is not only getting you closer to your destination but ...

Researchers demonstrate a novel method for transforming continuous time crystals into discrete ones using subharmonic injection locking, offering new insights into symmetry breaking and control in exo ...

This study introduces a chiral two-mode Lipkin-Meshkov-Glick model using acoustic cavities, enabling the simulation of exotic quantum phenomena like time crystals and long-range spin interactions on a ...

IN the course of experiments on the hydrothermal growth of quartz crystals from aqueous alkaline solution by the temperature gradient method1, thin needle-shaped crystals were obtained from the ...