Sentences with phrase «optical cryocooler»

A wunderkind of astronautical engineering during his 11 years at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Edwards led the development of the world's first optical cryocooler, a breakthrough device that achieved supercold temperatures with no moving parts («It breaks two, if not all three, laws of thermodynamics,» he says), and designed missions to the moon and Jupiter's moon Europa.