News tagged with bandwidth limit

Explained: The Shannon limit

It's the early 1980s, and you’re an equipment manufacturer for the fledgling personal-computer market. For years, modems that send data over the telephone lines have been stuck at a maximum rate of 9.6 kilobits ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

Jan 19, 2010 | 4.4 / 5 (19) | 5 |

New nano color sorters from Molecular Foundry

Berkeley Lab researchers have engineered a new class of bowtie-shaped devices that capture, filter and steer light at the nanoscale. These "nano-colorsorter" devices act as antennae to focus and sort light ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

Nov 12, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (6) | 0