'Radio Wave Cooling' Offers New Twist on Laser Cooling (IMAGE)

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

'Radio Wave Cooling' Offers New Twist on Laser Cooling

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NIST physicists used radio waves to cool this silicon micro-cantilever, the narrow orange strip across the middle of this colorized micrograph. The cantilever, created by ion etching through a silicon wafer, lies parallel to a silicon radio-frequency electrode.

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J. Britton/ NIST

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