Engineers at Caltech and the University of Southampton in England have collaboratively designed an electronics chip integrated with a photonics chip (which uses light to transfer data)—creating a cohesive final product capable of transmitting information at ultrahigh speed while generating minimal heat. [Caltech story]
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Professor Azita Emami
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Arian Hashemi
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Minwo Wang
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An electronics chip (the smaller chip on the top) integrated with a photonics chip, sitting atop a penny for scale.
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