Engineers at the California Institute of Technology developed a silicon microchip that allows any electric device to have X-ray vision
Ali Hajimiri and Kaushik Sengupta are the genius engineers of Caltech that revolutionized modern technology. And if that wasn’t impressive enough, you’ll be surprised to find out that they used the same cheap everyday technology that’s used to make the microchips for cell phones and notepads. These chips can operate at nearly 300 times their speed and will enable a new generation of sensors able to be adapted to many different functions. It can generate and radiate high-frequency electromagnetic waves, called terahertz (THz) waves, that get into a variety of materials without ionizing damage of X-rays. Rendering image details in high resolution, the THz waves can detect the chemical fingerprints of pharmaceutical drugs, biological weapons, illegal drugs or explosives. This handy and inexpensive technology can be incorporated into most portable devices, and might be applied in homeland security, wireless communications, healthcare, and even gaming.