Sentences with phrase «wave tractor beams»
Matter wave tractor beams could be made with beams of electrons, Novitsky says.
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Waves from a new tractor beam, illustrated at right, bounce off the sides of an object and rebound upward.
Ultrasonic waves can penetrate the body relatively gently, he notes, so the sonic tractor beam might be used to remove kidney stones and clots, deliver drug - laden capsules to various parts of the body, or control microsurgical instruments.
Last year Asier Marzo, then a doctoral student at the Public University of Navarre, helped develop the first single - sided acoustic tractor beam — that is, the first realization of trapping and pulling an object using sound waves from only one direction.
Researchers have now built a working tractor beam that uses high - amplitude sound waves to generate an acoustic hologram which can pick up and move small objects.
A team of researchers from the Universities of Bristol and Sussex in collaboration with Ultrahaptics has built a novel sonic tractor beam that can lift and move objects using sound waves.
University of Bristol research assistant Asier Marzo, the lead author of an article on the project recently published in the journal Applied Physics Letters, says that the acoustic tractor beam relies on the fact that sound is a mechanical wave that carries momentum.