NIST research project makes it easier for researchers to fabricate silicon photonics chips
NIST researchers Grant Brodnik, Alexa Carollo, Lindell Williams and Scott Papp, among others, worked to make integrated circuits for light by depositing complex patterns of specialised materials onto silicon wafers.
Credit: R. Jacobson/NIST
NIST’s chips could help emerging technologies such as quantum computers and optical atomic clocks escape the lab and start to impact biomedicine, navigation, communications and other areas.
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