Microchip/Photonics Sandwich Pushes the Boundaries of Computing and Data Transmission Efficiency
The chip sandwich: an electronic chip (smaller chip on top) integrated with a photonic chip, sitting atop a penny for scale. Credit: Arian Hashemi Talkhooncheh Engineers from Caltech and the University of Southampton in England have collaboratively designed an electronic chip integrated with a photonic chip (which uses light to transfer data) – creating a …
