Getting into the Guinness Book of World Records isn't just about who can eat the most hotdogs orfly a paper airplane the highest. Sometimes it involves technological breakthroughs with huge potential. Guinness has handed DARPA’s Terahertz Electronics program the award for the fastest solid-state amplifier integrated circuit. Developed by Northrop Grumman, the Terahertz Monolithic Integrated Circuit (TMIC) is a ten-stage common-source amplifier that cranks speeds of one terahertz (1012 Hz), or one trillion cycles per second... Continue Reading DARPA circuit smashes electronic speed record
Section: Electronics
Tags: Communications, DARPA, Electronic, Guinness, Northrop Grumman, Record, World Records, World's Fastest
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