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Enid Burns for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online When a circuit goes, depending upon where it was located, you may be in for a nuisance, if not a headache. In the case of your house, you can just go flip the breaker. But for computers and other electronics, those circuits often mean replacing parts, or even the whole device. A team at the High-Speed Integrated Circuits laboratory in Caltech's Division of Engineering and Applied Science has developed circuits in tiny power amplifiers...

Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online A new set of microchips designed at the California Institute of Technology pave the way for a new generation of devices. The chips created by the Caltech engineers generate and radiate high-frequency electromagnetic waves known as terahertz (THz). These waves fall between microwaves and far-infrared radiation and are able to penetrate materials without damaging them, unlike X-rays. The new microchips could be incorporated into...