converter

A key element of this achievement was the use of "quantum frequency converters," devices that adjust small frequency mismatches between photons.

That will take £5bn of the investment plan up to 2030, some of it to improve the capacity of homes to run air heat converters and car charging through household meters.

Efforts are underway in England to develop a new converter device that could solve this problem, though.

These adjustments make just enough room on top of the engine for the pulse inverter and DC/DC converter.

Europium is crucial for television screens, cerium is used for polishing glass and refining oil, lanthanum makes a car's catalytic converters operate -- the list of uses in today's economy is virtually endless.