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Funds to Push Photon Chip

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DALLAS, Texas, Jan. 18, 2008 -- The University of Texas Dallas (UT Dallas) has received a $1.75 million grant from DARPA to develop microchip technology that’s smaller, faster and more energy-efficient than anything on the market today. The secret ingredient is light. Like many modern devices, the new technology will be silicon-based, but it will use photons rather than electrons. “This research is intended to produce a completely new class of components that could have a revolutionary impact on information engineering,” said Duncan MacFarlane, a professor of electrical engineering at UT Dallas and principal...Read full article

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    Published: January 2008
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    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.
    photonics
    The technology of generating and harnessing light and other forms of radiant energy whose quantum unit is the photon. The science includes light emission, transmission, deflection, amplification and detection by optical components and instruments, lasers and other light sources, fiber optics, electro-optical instrumentation, related hardware and electronics, and sophisticated systems. The range of applications of photonics extends from energy generation to detection to communications and...
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