SC Grown in Optical Fiber
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa., March 13, 2008 -- An international science team has added new electronic capabilities to optical fibers by growing a single-crystal semiconductor inside the tunnel of a hollow fiber, work that could boost the performance of optical fibers used in medicine, computing, and telecommunications.
Optical fibers, used in a wide range of technologies that employ light, are considered an ideal media for transmitting many types of signals, but their performance in electronic devices is usually degraded by the...