Scientists have created the world's first nanophotonic electron accelerator, which speeds negatively charged particles with mini laser pulses and is small enough to fit on a coin.
  • Gork@lemm.ee
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    11 months ago

    I’ve got an unconventional application idea for this particle accelerator on a chip.

    True random number generation. There’s loads of random information that can be measured from such a device in a controlled manner.

    If you could fit one of these on a motherboard then you wouldn’t even need to call a pseudo random number generator algorithm anymore, you can pull data directly from the chip.