Recently, we have already presented how our world will look like in 10 years. We mentioned the creation soon faster and less power-hungry computers, which will be based on transistors made from carbon nanotubes.
IBM announced that it is working intensively on the development of this technology and provides that it should come to the market before the end of the decade. This is very important because it is fast approaching the magic limiting the possibility of silicon chips that operate at 5 nanometers.
Scientists from the University of Texas at Austin and the Technical University of Munich, has developed a thin-film metamaterial with a nonlinear optical properties.
In this case, the nonlinearity of the optical properties of the metamaterial shown thousands of times stronger than the non-linearity of conventional materials, which also have similar properties. And as a demonstration of its capabilities in this area, scientists have created a mirror thickness of just 400 nanometers reflects light whose frequency is exactly twice the frequency of the light incident on the surface of the mirror.
