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May 11, 2011 07:05 pm

Government Funded Atomic Clock On a Chip

An anonymous reader writes "Today most applications that require accurate atomic clock readings--from sorting separately routed telecommunications packets to timing simultaneous demolition charges--usually refer to signals from global positioning systems (GPS). For applications where GPS is unavailable, such as indoors, underground, undersea or on the battlefield where electronic jamming is present, large, heavy, power hungry hardware atomic clocks were needed. Now an atomic clock-on-a-chip is available that is the result of 10 years of government funded research and development. The chip is not cheap--$1500--but it costs less than conventional atomic clocks and the price is sure to go down as manufacturing gears up to meet demand from military applications start using it."

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