Switch Controls Light on a Nanoscale for Faster Information Processing

TBMG-33111

10/01/2018

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Photons, or units of light, are faster than electrons and could, therefore, process information faster from smaller chip structures. A switch was designed that bypasses a tendency for the unwanted absorption of light when using surface plasmons, or light coupled to oscillations of free electron clouds, to help confine light to a nanoscale. Even though plasmonics downsizes light, photons also get lost, or absorbed, rather than transferred to other parts of the computer chip when they interact with plasmons.

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"Switch Controls Light on a Nanoscale for Faster Information Processing," Mobility Engineering, October 1, 2018.
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Oct 1, 2018
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TBMG-33111
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English