A team of researchers at MIT’s Organic and Nanostructured Electronics Lab (ONE Lab) has come up with a one-of-a-kind, paper-thin speaker system that has the potential to enable Active Noise Cancelation (ANC) for an entire room. Yeah, you read that right! The new speakers come in the form of a sheet, which is as thin as paper and “weighs about as much as a dime” but can produce high-quality audio when attached to a surface. Check out the details below to learn more about this interesting invention!
The team of MIT engineers recently took to an official blog post to announce their new paper-thin loudspeaker. It is a thin-film loudspeaker that can attach to a surface to turn it into an active audio source. According to the researchers, the new paper-thin speaker offers minimal sound distortion while consuming much less power than a traditional loudspeaker.
Now, coming to the applications of the new paper-thin loudspeaker, the researchers say that they can be used to enable Active Noise Cancelation (ANC) in a chaotic room like, for example, an airplane cockpit. These speakers can be mounted on the cockpit walls and generate opposite-frequency sounds, much like how ANC-supported TWS earbuds work, to cancel out the environmental noise.
