How to Use ultrafast in a Sentence

ultrafast

adjective
  • But homes also need ultrafast Wi-Fi for laptops and phones and streaming video.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 25 Dec. 2025
  • The images revealed how electron-hole pairs interact with the crystal lattice on ultrafast timescales.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 19 Aug. 2025
  • The ultrafast service, called Amazon Now, first launched in India last June.
    — Anne D’innocenzio, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2026
  • Users can also check ultrafast delivery options on Amazon’s getitfast site.
    — Annie Palmer, CNBC, 17 Mar. 2026
  • The total number of these ultrafast unicorns has also quadrupled since 2023.
    — Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 30 June 2026
  • Treutelaar also has the typical tools, including ultrafast hand-to-hand snap times and pinpoint accuracy.
    — Steve Reaven, Chicago Tribune, 5 Feb. 2026
  • This novel state of matter is a metallic phase in an otherwise insulating compound that can only be accessed by using ultrafast lasers.
    — Meghie Rodrigues, IEEE Spectrum, 23 July 2025
  • To track what happened next, the team fired an ultrafast pulse of high-energy (MeV) electrons at the excited molecules.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 17 Jan. 2026
  • Lienau reported that ultrafast optical switches could greatly increase the amount of data transmitted per unit of time.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 21 Jan. 2026
  • Even under ultrafast cycling at 5 C, the dual-shell design held more than 80% of its capacity.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 30 Aug. 2025
  • In a first-of-its-kind experiment, researchers have captured quantum uncertainty in real time using ultrafast pulses of light.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 6 Oct. 2025
  • The confirmation marked a new record, pushing attosecond science below what is known as the atomic unit of time, a fundamental threshold in ultrafast physics.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 17 Dec. 2025
  • For years, this ultrafast breakdown happening within just one to two femtoseconds (10-15 seconds) has been one of physics’ most stubborn blind spots.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 5 Apr. 2026
  • With efficiency doubled, size slashed, and complexity reduced, this palm-sized laser may reshape how ultrafast optical tools move from the lab into the real world.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 6 Nov. 2025
  • The company is preparing to file for US approval soon, and the FDA has promised to give the drug an ultrafast review.
    — Bloomberg, Oc Register, 29 May 2026
  • While ultrafast and squeezed light pulses have been separately used for transmitting data, combining them enhances both speed and security.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Strengthening the network with ultrafast laser pulses In the second stage, the researchers exposed the aligned nanowires to extremely short bursts of laser light lasting just picoseconds.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 21 Dec. 2025
  • In this work, an ultrafast laser was miniaturized using photonic chips to route light through microscopic waveguides rather than bulky laboratory equipment.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 3 June 2026
  • Using an advanced form of ultrafast electron diffraction, the researchers have managed to image both electrons and atomic nuclei moving in real space as a molecule breaks apart.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 17 Jan. 2026
  • As per the researchers, ultrafast light switches offer interesting prospects for optical data processing.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 21 Jan. 2026
  • This mechanism enables rapid magnetization steering on ultrafast timescales.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 16 Dec. 2025
  • Quiet, atmospheric scenes are punctuated with moments of ultrafast violence, elongated limbs sweeping the page like springs released from tension.
    — Matt Alt, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Compare that to 37 miles per second for the swift Perseids, 41 for the very swift Orionids, and 45 for the ultrafast Leonids.
    — Joe Rao, Space.com, 7 Dec. 2025
  • The pack, which is shielded to prevent or limit damage in a collision, is part of an advanced 800-volt architecture for ultrafast DC charging.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Considering the extreme energy and ultrafast tempo the music requires, hardcore shows can be exhausting for all involved — and transformative.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 7 Mar. 2026
  • After injection, each droplet, measuring about 10 to 15 micrometers across, was exposed to an ultrafast laser through a high-precision microscope.
    — Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 18 Jan. 2026
  • Recent advances in ultrafast measurement techniques have revealed that electron emission is not instantaneous, as once believed, but influenced by complex interactions within atoms.
    — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 6 Apr. 2026
  • The simplified chip is analog rather than digital, yet can process ultrafast data and wireless communication signals simultaneously.
    — New Atlas, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Lienau explained that nanoscale ultrafast light switches could also open possibilities in chip manufacturing, optical sensors and quantum computers.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 21 Jan. 2026
  • The study authors overcame this problem by pushing ultrafast electron diffraction (UED) to an unprecedented level of spatial and temporal precision.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 17 Jan. 2026

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