Antenna-On-Chip (Aoc) And Antenna-In-Package (Aip) Market: By Application (Imaging, Display, Holographic, Measurement, And Remote Sensing) And Geography (2013 – 2018)
The recent development of a micron-scale spatial light modulator (SLM) by the researchers at Rice University (U.S.) is expected to change the approach regarding optical information processing.
The SLM is similar to the one used in sensing and imaging devices, only with the potential to run several orders of magnitude faster. Its 'antenna on a chip' operates in 3D (free space) instead of the two-dimensional space in traditional semiconductor devices.
The new SLM device essentially consists of nanoscale ribs of crystalline silicon forming a cavity between p- and n-doped silicon slabs connected to metallic electrodes. The rib positions can be 'warped' at the microscale level to tune the resonant cavity for coupling with incident light, which 'pulls' incident light into the cavity. Although silicon is transparent to infrared light, after the light has been captured by the SLM it can be modulated by manipulating it as it passes through the chip.
These chips can be fabricated in a CMOS factory and these antennas are capable of optical processing tasks comparable in power, to supercomputers.
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