Sentences with phrase «as photonic»

This leaves behind a porous, weblike polymer structure, which now acts as the photonic crystal.
Such structures are also found in nature (for example, in green - winged teal feathers and in some butterfly wings) and are known as photonic crystals.
Bob Deri's technical scope spans fields such as photonic devices, micro-fabrication, communications systems and interconnects, integrated electronics, hardware, large laser systems and microwave diagnostics.
«In a sense, the device acts as the photonic equivalent to electronic transistors, which switch electric currents in response to other electric currents,» says Dr. Barak Dayan, head of the Weizmann Institute's Quantum Optics group, including Itay Shomroni, Serge Rosenblum, Yulia Lovsky, Orel Bechler and Gabriel Guendleman of the Chemical Physics Department in the Faculty of Chemistry.
These images depict how the photonic sensor translates finger movements into color changes, as the photonic crystal reacts to the change in local humidity caused by the approach of the finger without direct contact.
In B. pavonina, however, this stacking is far more regular, creating what are known as photonic crystals.
Now scientists have discovered a way to bulk up photoresists to make them thick enough to serve as photonic materials.
Zheng Wang and colleagues at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have made what's known as a photonic crystal from an array of ferrite rods.

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And then tied to that is the photonics angle because I can get significantly more bandwidth through a pipe, but as I get to extreme levels of bandwidth I do it at an energy curve that is far, far, far less than what is being used today.
The two keynote addresses, from Brian Krzanich on Tuesday and Murthy Renduchintala and Diane Bryant on Wednesday, dealt more with the broader issues Intel is exploring within the Internet of Things, such as the buzzy Project Alloy headset, 5G mobile connectivity and silicon photonics in the data center.
But many forget that those magnetic or photonic ons - and - offs are physical, just as the electromagnetic wave forms of analog broadcasting are physical, although it must be granted their physicality is tenuous relative to the colossal freight of meaning they incrementally embody.
As systems of photonic elementals, the infinitesimally finite elemental Gods did shower the solarized systems with their embodied beings.
As systems of photonic elementals, the infinitesimally finite elemental gods did forcibly shower the solarized planetary systems with their «photonically» embodied beings.
Hochul said her pitch is a mixture of explaining some of the new industry clusters that officials are fueling upstate — photonics in Rochester, solar production in Buffalo — as well as telling companies that taxes are lower.
«The public - private partnership we're establishing here today to invest in the innovative photonics can help revolutionize the movement of American commerce as well with traffic monitoring and collision appointing systems.
«As we continue to build on the vibrancy of our photonics and optics industry, you'll build a larger scale of operation that will create more opportunities for collaborations for all the local universities and employment opportunities for the students.»
Schumer says that Rochester, with its photonics cluster, RIT, the University of Rochester and Eastman Business Park, would be well qualified to host this new photonics facility as would Albany.
To make upstate New York competitive, Cuomo touts the area's high tech and clean energy companies such as SolarCity in Buffalo which manufactures solar panels and the photonics center in Rochester which develops technology for smart phones, laptops and lighting.
Nonlinear optical processes provide the basis for important functionalities in photonics, such as frequency conversion of light, generation of ultrashort light pulses, as well as optical processing and manipulation.
Arrays of silicon nanotubes have many potential applications, including for solar - energy harvesting, photonics, and biological processes such as drug delivery.
Tiny, mirrorlike structures known as distributed Bragg reflectors reflect this fluorescent light as well as all the other light the photonic crystal allows to pass through.
The observation suggests that thermal phonons must exist as waves similar to electronic, photonic or acoustic waves.
The technology builds on tiny structures known as silicon photonic wires, which are roughly a hundred times narrower than a typical human hair.
The research team, from Physics and Astronomy and the Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC) at the University, expects to establish the technique as a standard characterisation tool, making photonic chips under development more reliable and bringing them into the market quicker.
And because photonic chips shuttle photons instead of electrons, mobile devices such as smartphones or tablets built with this technology would consume less power, have longer battery life and generate less heat than existing mobile devices.
«It is particularly refreshing to see simple techniques such as inkjet printing being used to such great effect,» says Thomas Krauss who investigates photonic crystals at the University of York.
The new device, referred to technically as a «fully integrated non-duplicate polarization - diversity silicon - photonic switch,» consists of a single 8 x 8 grid of 2 x 2 element switches.
Silicon photonics could significantly increase the power and speed of machines such as supercomputers, data center servers and the specialized computers that direct autonomous cars and drones with collision detection.
For example, photonic crystals could funnel excess heat from a power plant's generator and release it over a much smaller band of frequencies to drive engines — such as those in electric - powered cars that can absorb energy only within a small range — much more efficiently.
The teaching at the PEDC, for example, includes modules on specialist photonic and optoelectronic topics, as well as some business courses borrowed from the Edinburgh Business School MBA.
In packed, two - dimensional crystalline systems, such as in photonic two - dimensional crystals, the particles are organized in hexagonal lattices.
Left - bottom: Variation of quantum dot emission line frequencies as a function of time due to vibrations of the photonic crystal membrane.
It will open a completely new set of applications, such as optical communications and sensing at a scale below one nanometer,» said ICREA Professor Frank Koppens at ICFO — The Institute of Photonic Sciences in Barcelona, Spain, who led the research.
Practical applications of this technology will include all - optical reconfigurable routers, ultrafast optical modulators and switches for optical networks and microwave photonic circuits as well as wafer - scale optical testing of photonic chips.
PIC technology offers a way to integrate photonic components — such as the lasers and detectors used by the new quantum random generator — onto a chip with a small footprint and low power consumption.
«Forty to 60 percent of our body heat is dissipated as infrared radiation when we are sitting in an office,» said Shanhui Fan, co-author of the study and a professor of electrical engineering who specializes in photonics, which is the study of visible and invisible light.
«We have developed a photonic chip, which acts as a photon gun.
One of the great opportunities this study creates is the ability to produce multi-functional inorganic materials such as metals and ceramics to explore photonic and energy harvesting properties in these new materials
In this case, Lu was able to calculate precise measurements for the construction of a photonic crystal predicted to produce the manifestation of Weyl points — with dimensions and precise angles between arrays of holes drilled through the material, a configuration known as a gyroid structure.
The scope of these results goes well beyond the field of photonics, since this type of background noise is generally considered to be one of the possible mechanisms behind the destructive rogue waves that suddenly appear on the surface of oceans, and is also believed to be present in other systems such as plasma dynamics in the early Universe.
The pilot project established a comprehensive scientific and technological roadmap to serve as the basis for the research agenda of the GRAPHENE Flagship — covering electronics, spintronics, photonics, plasmonics and mechanics, and supporting areas such as graphene production and chemistry.
This is exciting for integrated photonics because most optical devices use interactions between two or more waves, which need to propagate in sync as they move through the circuit.
American researchers have now used a photonic crystal as a reflector for a miniature microwave antenna which could one day be fabricated on a single chip along with control electronics.
EPFL scientists have now fabricated and experimentally tested a silicon - based «photonic crystal nanocavity» (PCN) that requires an unprecedentedly low amount of energy to operate as a switch.
Already used in fiber optic communications, the field of applied photonics is making steady progress in developing optical circuits, which use nanoscale «optical cavities» as switches or «transistors» for controlling the flow of light.
Sailing He, meanwhile, had made a name for himself in photonics, the effort to develop technologies that manipulate light much as electronic devices control the flow of electricity.
A new research project led by the University of Southampton is aiming to establish whether germanium, a group IV semiconductor, can be used as the material of choice in mid-infrared (mid-IR) photonics circuits and sensors.
The field of photonic computing aims to achieve that goal by using light as the medium.
Mid-IR group IV photonics has a number of important application areas, such as chemical and biological sensing, environmental and hazardous substance monitoring, medicine, telecommunications, astronomy, defence and security.
«As far as we know, we're the first ones to get silicon photonics natively integrated into an advanced CMOS process and to achieve energy efficiencies that are very competitive with electronics,» said Mark Wade of the University of Colorado, Boulder, who will present his team's work at OFAs far as we know, we're the first ones to get silicon photonics natively integrated into an advanced CMOS process and to achieve energy efficiencies that are very competitive with electronics,» said Mark Wade of the University of Colorado, Boulder, who will present his team's work at OFas we know, we're the first ones to get silicon photonics natively integrated into an advanced CMOS process and to achieve energy efficiencies that are very competitive with electronics,» said Mark Wade of the University of Colorado, Boulder, who will present his team's work at OFC.
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