DARPA circuit achieves speeds of 1 trillion cycles per second, earns Guinness world record

Friday, October 31, 2014 - 07:01 in Physics & Chemistry

Officials from Guinness World Records today recognized DARPA's Terahertz Electronics program for creating the fastest solid-state amplifier integrated circuit ever measured. The ten-stage common-source amplifier operates at a speed of one terahertz (1012 GHz), or one trillion cycles per second—150 billion cycles faster than the existing world record of 850 gigahertz set in 2012.

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