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Researchers illuminate the path to a new era of microelectronics

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Researchers illuminate the path to a new era of microelectronics

New manufacturing process will enable photonic communication in consumer 
devices

The new platform, which brings photonics to state-of-the-art bulk 
silicon microelectronic chips, promises faster and more energy efficient 
communication that could vastly improve computing and mobile devices. 
Applications beyond traditional data communication include accelerating 
the training of deep-learning artificial neural networks used in image 
and speech recognition tasks, and low-cost infrared LIDAR sensors for 
self-driving cars, smartphone face identification and augmented reality 
technology. In addition, optically enabled microchips could enable new 
types of data security and hardware authentication, more powerful chips 
for mobile devices operating on 5th generation (5G) wireless networks, 
and components for quantum information processing and computing.

"Instead of a single wire carrying 10 to 100 gigabits per second, you 
can have a single optical fiber carrying 10 to 20 terabits per second -- 
so about a thousand times more in the same footprint," says Popovic.


Read more here:

http://www.bu.edu/eng/2018/04/18/a-new-era-of-microelectronics/



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Amine Moulay Ramdane.

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