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All-optical modulation in silicon achieved via an electron avalanche process

Over the past decades, engineers have introduced numerous technologies that rely on light and its underlying characteristics. These include photonic and quantum systems that could advance imaging, ...
Nanowerk

Advancing GaN-on-Silicon for scalable high electron mobility transistors

(Nanowerk News) A team of researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has advanced gallium nitride (GaN)-on-silicon transistor technology by optimizing the composition of the ...
EurekAlert!

Mechanism of hydrogen-driven free-electron generation in silicon elucidated for first time ever

Associate Professor Yuichiro Matsushita of Materials and Structures Laboratory, Institute of Science Tokyo, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Associate Professor Takahide Umeda of Institute of Pure and ...

Quantum model explains how single electrons cause damage inside silicon chips

Researchers in the UC Santa Barbara Materials Department have uncovered the elusive quantum mechanism by which energetic electrons break chemical bonds inside microelectronic devices—a detrimental ...
EurekAlert!

Illinois team advances GaN-on-Silicon for scalable high electron mobility transistors

A team of researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has advanced gallium nitride (GaN)-on-silicon transistor technology by optimizing the composition of the semiconductor layers ...
Electronic Design

11 Myths About Silicon Photonics

Silicon photonics, which integrates optical and electrical components onto a single package, is used for high-speed interconnects in computing systems between processors, memory, and other resources.
Business Wire

Mechanism of Hydrogen-driven Free-electron Generation in Silicon Elucidated for First Time Ever

TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Institute of Science Tokyo, University of Tsukuba, and Quemix Corporation announced today that they have achieved the world’s first elucidation ...