Using light to convey signals around electronic chips could solve several current problems in microelectronic evolution, including power dissipation, interconnect bottleneck, input/output of the chip to optical communication channels, signal bandwidth, and so forth. Unfortunately, silicon is not a good photonic material: it has poor light-emission efficiency and negligible electrooptic effect. Silicon photonics is a field with the objective of improving the physical properties of silicon, thus turning it into a photonic material and allowing full convergence between electronics and photonics. Various research directions based on the use of nano-sized silicon are described.
Titolo: | Silicon nanostructures for photonics applications | |
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Data di pubblicazione: | 2005 | |
Abstract: | Using light to convey signals around electronic chips could solve several current problems in microelectronic evolution, including power dissipation, interconnect bottleneck, input/output of the chip to optical communication channels, signal bandwidth, and so forth. Unfortunately, silicon is not a good photonic material: it has poor light-emission efficiency and negligible electrooptic effect. Silicon photonics is a field with the objective of improving the physical properties of silicon, thus turning it into a photonic material and allowing full convergence between electronics and photonics. Various research directions based on the use of nano-sized silicon are described. | |
Handle: | http://hdl.handle.net/11562/478377 | |
Appare nelle tipologie: | 04.01 Contributo in atti di convegno |