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Silicon on Sapphire Speeds Chip Communication

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The insulating properties of sapphire have been heralded as a boon to smaller, low-power chip design, but researchers at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore are focusing on the gem's optical potential for laser chip communication at speeds a hundred times faster than are possible through conventional technology. The researchers' microsystem uses 850-nm vertical-cavity lasers from Emcore Corp. in Somerset, N.J., and specially designed vertical-cavity lasers from the Army Research Laboratory in Adelphi, Md. Signals can be transferred through the sapphire between portions of the same chip...Read full article

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