Self-Assembling Diamond Metamaterial Discovered

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/02/170221130646.htm

Photonic Bandgap Materials or PBMs are critical for next generation electronics and communications. Essentially, we need to rewire the entire planet for power and communications, but we don't have the technology yet to do it in the most efficient manner possible and having self-assembling technology like this would make all the difference. There already exists protypes of photonic processors with up to a hundred to a thousand times the speed of silicon processors and this kind of self-assembling technology promises roughly anywhere from about 7-270 terahertz speeds and the ability to multiplex signals like we currently do with ordinary electrical telephone lines maximizing them. The first possibly commercial single photon source has also been developed and what it all adds up to is that, within the next ten years, we should see people start to become the masters of light itself as a new technological revolution sweeps the planet that resembles the rise of the semiconducting industry. Speed is the master of haste in competitive markets and the speeds this kind of technology produce drive their own demand.

Note, there is also an effort to produce the first self-assembling quantum computer and, combined, the two would push the limits of what is humanly possible.

 

Display monitors and TVs are one of the applications for technology like this and, theoretically, your entire TV and monitor circuitry can be optical. Using light to convey both power and information should be the most efficient way possible or about as close as anyone might ever care to get. Stanford's new optical processor is a hybrid design and there's no reason whatsoever that your entire computer from keyboard to display output can't be zero latency and millions of times more powerful for all practical purposes. Using just 3 watts, Stanford's optical processor can send a signal six or nine feet without requiring amplification and where you can go with this kind of material is anyone's guess at this point with invisibility cloaks merely touching on the possibilities. Theoretically, you could design a hybrid classical and quantum computer that both use similar optical circuitry and coexist on the same chip and can simulate both our own conscious and unconscious minds.