Optical links are moving to higher and higher transmission speeds while shrinking to shorter
and shorter ranges where optical links are envisaged even at the chip scale. The scaling in …

Optical technology is poised to revolutionize short-reach interconnects. The leading
candidate technology is silicon photonics, and the workhorse of such an interconnect is the …

Metal interconnections are expected to become the limiting factor for the performance of
electronic systems as transistors continue to shrink in size. Replacing them by optical …

Silicon has long been the optimal material for electronics, but it is only relatively recently that
it has been considered as a material option for photonics. One of the key limitations for using …

Molecular self-assembly offers a means of spontaneously forming complex and well-defined
structures from simple components. The specific bonding between DNA base pairs has …

Silicon photonics could enable a chip-scale platform for monolithic integration of optics and
microelectronics for applications of optical interconnects in which high data streams are …

The many and diverse approaches to materials science problems have greatly enhanced
our ability to engineer the physical properties of semiconductors. Silicon, of all …

The quest for enhanced light‐matter interactions has enabled a tremendous increase in the
performance of photonic‐crystal nanoresonators in the past decade. State‐of‐the‐art …

Electrical interconnects are becoming a bottleneck in the way towards meeting future
performance requirements of integrated circuits. Moore's law, which observes the doubling …

Ever since the earliest research on optical circuits, dating back to the 1970s, there have
been visions of an optical superchip (see for example, containing a variety of integrated …