https://www.google.com/amp/s/spectrum.ieee.org/semiconductors/materials/to-build-the-worlds-smallest-atomic-clock-trap-a-nitrogen-atom-in-a-carbon-cage.amp.html
> On Dec 8, 2017, at 10:38 AM, Ulrich Rohde via time-nuts <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Impressive, Ulrich > > In a message dated 12/8/2017 12:41:23 PM Eastern Standard Time, > [email protected] writes: > > > There's an interesting article in the December 2017 issue of IEEE Spectrum. > > Researchers at Oxford U. have fabricated an atomic reference based on > a single nitrogen molecule inside a 60-atom carbon sphere ("Fullerene"). > The cage of carbon isolates the nitrogen from external electric fields, > and they've developed a method to also isolate it from external magnetic > fields. > > They have not incorporated the material into a working standard, but have > licensed the chemical fabrication technology to at least one manufacturer. > The idea is to make a chip-scale atomic frequency reference. > > -- Tom, N5EG > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
