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Germanium Made Laser-Compatible

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ZURICH, April 23, 2013 — A manufacturing technique that alters the optical properties of germanium — an element incompatible with lasers — has rendered the semiconductor laser-compatible through high tensile strain. The discovery could enable microprocessor components to communicate using light, making the computers of the future faster and more efficient. To improve computer performance, computer chips have been made smaller and more densely packed, but this method eventually will hit a brick wall, according to researchers from ETH Zurich, the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) of Villigen and the...Read full article

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    Published: April 2013
    Glossary
    nano
    An SI prefix meaning one billionth (10-9). Nano can also be used to indicate the study of atoms, molecules and other structures and particles on the nanometer scale. Nano-optics (also referred to as nanophotonics), for example, is the study of how light and light-matter interactions behave on the nanometer scale. See nanophotonics.
    ETH ZurichEuropegermanium laserindustrialItalyJerome FaistMartin SüessmicrobridgesnanoPaul Scherrer InstitutePolitecnico di MilanoPSIRalph SpolenakResearch & TechnologyRichard Geigersemiconductor lasersSwitzerlandLasers

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