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Inductance based on a Quantum Effect has the Potential to Miniaturize Inductors

Inductance based on a quantum effect has the potential to miniaturize inductors
A conventional inductor mounted on a printed circuit board. Inductors have resisted miniaturization until now, but the demonstration of a quantum source of inductance by RIKEN researchers promises to result in much smaller inductors. Credit: GIPHOTOSTOCK / SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY

Mobile-phone chargers and other devices could become much smaller after an all-RIKEN team of physicists successfully shrunk an electrical component known as an inductor to microscale dimensions using a quantum effect.

Inductors are a basic component of modern electrical circuits, and they are used in a wide range of applications including information processing, wireless circuits and chargers for mobile devices. They are based on the law of induction that English physicist Michael Faraday discovered in 1831...

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