The UCLA Engineering team used multiferroic magnetic materials to reduce the amount of power consumed by «logic devices,» a type of circuit
on a computer chip dedicated to performing functions such as calculations.
«You make both parts — the detectors and the photonic
chip — through their best fabrication process, which is
dedicated, and then bring them together,» explains Faraz Najafi, a graduate student in electrical engineering and
computer science at MIT and first author
on the new paper.