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Photonic Integrated Circuits: Transformative Technologies and Applications for the Photonics Era

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Photonic Integrated Circuits (PICs) are transforming how we process, transmit, and interact with information by utilizing light instead of electrons. These advanced chips leverage photons to deliver ultra-fast data transmission, superior energy efficiency, and higher bandwidth than traditional electronic circuits.…...

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Quantum Light on a Chip: How Silicon Carbide Is Unifying Photonic Technology

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In the race toward practical quantum technologies, silicon carbide (SiC) has emerged as a transformative force—quietly transcending its roots in power electronics to become the most promising material for integrated quantum photonics. With its rare combination of quantum emitters, nonlinear…...

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The Silent Guardian: How the GEM Program Rescues America’s Aging Weapon Systems

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The Obsolescence Crisis: A $125.6 Billion Time Bomb Across America’s military landscape, critical systems such as the F-15 fighter jets, Arleigh Burke-class destroyers, and Patriot missile batteries still depend on microelectronics designed decades ago—some dating back to the 1980s. Today,…...

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Revolutionizing Satellite Operations: DARPA’s Robotic Servicing of Geosynchronous Satellites (RSGS) Program

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The Fragile Backbone of Modern Warfare High above Earth, at 36,000 kilometers, geosynchronous orbit (GEO) holds a constellation of over 1,300 satellites valued at more than $300 billion. These satellites are the invisible backbone of modern warfare, supporting everything from…...

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The Microcapacitor Revolution: On-Chip Energy Storage Breaks Performance Barriers

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  For decades, the quest to miniaturize energy storage and integrate it directly onto microchips has faced daunting physics-based limits. Shrinking capacitors typically meant diminishing their ability to store energy, making it necessary to rely on off-chip batteries or capacitors.…...

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The New Frontier: How Extreme Mechanics is Redefining Aerospace and Military Capabilities

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Military and aerospace missions are rapidly extending beyond the boundaries of classical mechanics, driven by increasingly ambitious goals—to go higher, farther, deeper, faster, smarter, and cleaner. These ambitions span a wide spectrum of platforms and systems: from aerostats stretching tens…...

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From Rubble to Rockets: How DARPA R2 Is Turning Military Scrap into Aerospace Innovation

Rethinking Military Logistics in Contested Environments In today’s era of multi-domain warfare, logistics has become as strategic as firepower. Modern battlefields, particularly in contested or resource-depleted environments, challenge the assumption of uninterrupted access to high-quality materials and long supply chains.…...

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Beyond Moore’s Law: How Wafer-Scale Computing is Revolutionizing Energy Research Efficiency

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  For decades, the pace of computing advancement has been measured by Moore’s Law—the observation that the number of transistors on a chip doubles every two years. Yet, as computational power has surged, energy efficiency has lagged dangerously behind. The…...

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Analog AI Accelerators: How ECRAM Chips Are Rewriting the Rules of AI Hardware

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Artificial intelligence (AI) has witnessed explosive growth in recent years, evolving far beyond basic tasks like image classification or natural language processing. With the emergence of generative AI and increasingly complex models, the computational demand has surged to levels that…...

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How Innovative Is China in the Electric Vehicle and Battery Industries?

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Concerns over climate change have prompted governments to start focusing on finding alternative sources of energy. As such, EVs, and the battery technologies associated with them, have gained an increasing importance in recent years. In an effort to reduce greenhouse…...

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