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by ak217 724 days ago
Not sure about compute. But

> Achieving higher scandium concentrations in aluminum nitride films can help increase RF filter performance. Pulsed laser deposition can take the scandium concentration in the film to at least 40%, up from the previous 30% limit

The first thing that came to mind when reading this was RF synthetic aperture performance for jamming-resistant directional antennas in military applications. These seemingly incremental improvements can have huge real world consequences.

Imagine the Starlink antenna but with 10x the performance, or a radar that can withstand 10x the jamming or hide completely because it needs 10% the power. I wonder if that's what's possible here.

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(correction: phased array, not synthetic aperture)