resonator

[rez-uh-ney-ter]

noun

1. anything that resonates.

2. an appliance for increasing sound by resonance.

3. an instrument for detecting the presence of a particular frequency by means of resonance.

4. Electronics.

   1. a hollow enclosure cavity resonator made of conducting material of such dimensions that electromagnetic radiation of a certain frequency will resonate.

   2. any circuit having this frequency characteristic.

resonator

/ ˈrɛzəˌneɪtə /

noun

1. any body or system that displays resonance, esp a tuned electrical circuit or a conducting cavity in which microwaves are generated by a resonant current

Word History and Origins

Origin of resonator¹

First recorded in 1865–70; resonate + -or ²

Example Sentences

These resonators significantly intensified the incoming light, allowing the team to observe HHG at both even and odd THz frequencies, an exceptional accomplishment.

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From the discovery four years ago that a pair of gold flakes creates a self-assembled resonator, researchers have now developed a method to study various fundamental forces.

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"Instead of focusing on the performance of single-resonator systems, we instead took into account the way these resonators interact, which opened up new possibilities," Naik explained.

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Others had done similar things, Rybka notes, but earlier efforts made the higher mode resonator ring strongly at one frequency or made it tunable, not both.

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The oscillators used in the study consist of thin strips of superconducting material patterned on an insulating substrate to form microwave resonators, a technology fully compatible with the most advanced superconducting quantum computers.

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