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Blending two worlds In April, the same team made headlines after developing the PoX 2D flash memory prototype, which achieved an extraordinary program speed of 400 picoseconds, the fastest semiconductor charge storage ever recorded.
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Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 10 Oct. 2025
Optical atomic clocks, accurate to picoseconds, will enable satellite constellations and ground stations to determine satellites’ locations with centimeter-level precision—avoiding potentially catastrophic in-orbit collisions.
—Paul Lipman, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2024
This activity is highly non-linear so that a small change in initial conditions can be inconsequential or lead to huge differences in outcome over timescales ranging from picoseconds to hours or days.
—The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 30 Sep. 2024
Rapid switching is possible in principle (the laser should be able to switch in picoseconds), but that still has to be done in practice.
—Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 17 May 2020
The technology emits short, picosecond laser pulses that break pigmented particles into fragments.
—Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
The source sends simultaneous, picoseconds-long pulses of light in two directions.
—Peter McMahon, IEEE Spectrum, 27 Nov. 2018
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Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 10 Oct. 2025
Optical atomic clocks, accurate to picoseconds, will enable satellite constellations and ground stations to determine satellites’ locations with centimeter-level precision—avoiding potentially catastrophic in-orbit collisions.
—Paul Lipman, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2024
This activity is highly non-linear so that a small change in initial conditions can be inconsequential or lead to huge differences in outcome over timescales ranging from picoseconds to hours or days.
—The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 30 Sep. 2024
Rapid switching is possible in principle (the laser should be able to switch in picoseconds), but that still has to be done in practice.
—Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 17 May 2020
The technology emits short, picosecond laser pulses that break pigmented particles into fragments.
—Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
The source sends simultaneous, picoseconds-long pulses of light in two directions.
—Peter McMahon, IEEE Spectrum, 27 Nov. 2018
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“Picosecond.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/picosecond. Accessed 13 Dec. 2025.
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picosecond
noun
pi·co·sec·ond
ˈpē-kō-ˌsek-ənd, -ənt 
: one trillionth of a second
—abbreviation ps
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