ELECTRONICS USING LESS POWER

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As silicon-electronics-based information technology becomes increasingly throttled by heating and energy consumption, nonlinear optics is under intense investigation as a potential solution. Researchers have found a new path toward sending and receiving information with single photons of light. It would use an effect known as nonlinearity to modify and detect extremely weak light signals, taking advantage of distinct changes to a quantum system to advance next generation computing.  

www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/03/210304125324.htm

Journal Reference:

Long Zhang, Fengcheng Wu, Shaocong Hou, Zhe Zhang, Yu-Hsun Chou, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Stephen R. Forrest, Hui Deng. Van der Waals heterostructure polaritons with moiré-induced nonlinearity. Nature, 2021; 591 (7848): 61 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-021-03228-5