Neuromorphic detection and cooling of microparticles in arrays
Yugang Ren, Benjamin Siegel, Ronghao Yin, Qiongyuan Wu, Jonathan Pritchett, Muddassar Rashid, James Millen · 2025
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Description
Yugang Ren and co-authors published a research paper in 2025 on watching and cooling several floating microspheres at once with a brain-style event camera. Tiny objects levitated in vacuum make superb sensors, and arrays of them could sense direction and share quantum links. Tracking many movers fast enough to calm them is the bottleneck.
An event camera reports only changes, suiting it to the fast, sparse motion. Their pipeline tracks each sphere in real time and feeds back pushes that cool the motion of three unlinked spheres at once. The method scales beyond one particle without a rack of gear. It marks a step toward sensor arrays run by neuromorphic hardware.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Yugang Ren, Benjamin Siegel, Ronghao Yin, Qiongyuan Wu, Jonathan Pritchett, Muddassar Rashid, James Millen |
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| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 30 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |