{"id":3921936,"date":"2025-09-15T13:03:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T18:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/ultrafast-infrared-light-pulses-trigger-rapid-breathing-in-thin-film\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T13:03:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T18:03:09","slug":"ultrafast-infrared-light-pulses-trigger-rapid-breathing-in-thin-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/ultrafast-infrared-light-pulses-trigger-rapid-breathing-in-thin-film\/","title":{"rendered":"Ultrafast infrared light pulses trigger rapid &#8216;breathing&#8217; in thin film"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Cornell Engineering researchers have demonstrated that, by zapping a synthetic thin film with ultrafast pulses of low-frequency infrared light, they can cause its lattice to atomically expand and contract billions of times per second\u2014strain-driven &#8220;breathing&#8221; that could potentially be harnessed to quickly switch a material&#8217;s electronic, magnetic or optical properties on and off.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2025-09-ultrafast-infrared-pulses-trigger-rapid.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cornell Engineering researchers have demonstrated that, by zapping a synthetic thin film with ultrafast pulses of low-frequency infrared light, they can cause its lattice to atomically expand and contract billions of times per second\u2014strain-driven &#8220;breathing&#8221; that could potentially be harnessed to quickly switch a material&#8217;s electronic, magnetic or optical properties on and off. <\/p>\n<p>Go to [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3921936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-in-physics","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3921936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3921936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3921936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3921936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3921936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3921936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}