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“He wants to put a crowbar in the spokes of our wheels within a nanosecond,” Newsom said.

I am well aware that most people won’t be giving this contest even a nanosecond’s attention, but three months into this race, the contours of its final stages are beginning to take shape.

As its name suggests, the microcavity is an extremely tiny space where light can be trapped in both space and time -- at least for a few nanoseconds -- where it can interact with a molecule.

By changing the ratios of these oxides, the team achieved time constants ranging from 159 to 278 nanoseconds, or trillionths of a second.

A different type of edge sealing using nanosecond lasers and a glass frit filler was tried in the past, but the welds proved too brittle for use in outdoor module designs.