Friday, 10 November 2017

When electronics, photonics meet on a standard chip

Electronics and light don't go well together on a standard 'CMOS' chip. Researchers have succeeded in introducing a light connection into the heart of a semiconductor chip. In this way, two circuits can communicate. Or: the worlds of electronics and photonics are connected.

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Make it worth Weyl: Engineering the first semimetallic Weyl quantum crystal

Researchers have demonstrated an ideal Weyl semimetal, marking a breakthrough in a decade-old problem of quantum materials.