Tag: MIT Lincoln Laboratory
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Small, inexpensive hydrophone boosts undersea signals
A Compact, Cost-Effective Breakthrough Researchers at MIT Lincoln Laboratory have unveiled a breakthrough in underwater sensing: a small, inexpensive hydrophone built around a standard commercial microphone. By leveraging a mature microfabrication platform known as microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), the team has created a device capable of capturing faint underwater signals with a simplicity and scalability that…
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Small, inexpensive MEMS hydrophone boosts undersea signals
A miniature breakthrough in underwater sensing Scientists at MIT Lincoln Laboratory have introduced a small, inexpensive hydrophone built around a standard, commercially available microphone. This approach leverages the mature microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) fabrication process to create a reliable, scalable sensor designed to capture acoustic signals beneath the world’s oceans. By reimagining a familiar component, the…
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GO-LoW: A New Frontier Revealing the Low-Frequency Radio Cosmos
Unveiling the Hidden Sky: GO-LoW’s Mission For centuries, humanity has peered at the stars, expanding our understanding of the cosmos with naked-eye observations and increasingly sophisticated telescopes. Yet a sweeping portion of the electromagnetic spectrum—the low-frequency radio sky—has remained largely unseen. Now, a NASA-funded concept study aims to change that with the Great Observatory for…
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GO-LoW: The Solar System’s Hidden Radio Frontier Comes Into View
A New Frontier: Listening to the Low-Frequency Sky For centuries, humanity has studied the cosmos across the electromagnetic spectrum. Yet a wide, relatively uncharted swath remains—the low-frequency radio sky, with wavelengths from 15 meters to kilometers. MIT Lincoln Laboratory, MIT Haystack Observatory, and Lowell Observatory are spearheading a NASA-funded concept study known as the Great…