Sunday, February 22, 2009

The plasmonic switch

A research team at Penn State has developed a plasmonic switch that may help pave the way for the next generation of super-fast computers.

“If plasmonics are realized, the future will have circuits as small as the current electronic ones with a capacity a million times better,” said Tony Jun Huang, James Henderson assistant professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics. “Plasmonics combines the speed and capacity of photonic — light based — circuits with the small size of electronic circuits.”

Source

Penn State Live

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