E3S Theme III: Nanophotonics eBook
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This eBook was written by faculty, postdoctoral researchers, students, and staff of the Center for Energy Efficient Electronics Science (E3S), a Science and Technology Center funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation (Award 0939514). The Center is a consortium of five world-class academic institutions: University of California at Berkeley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, University of Texas at El Paso, and Florida International University. Researchers at E3S are working in a collaborative and innovative environment to make fundamental and conceptual breakthroughs in the underlying physics, chemistry, and materials science of electronic systems, breakthroughs needed to reduce these systems’ energy consumption by orders of magnitude.
The goal of the Nanophotonics team is to enable optical communications between switches on a chip at unprecedented efficiency levels. In fact, E3S researchers pursue the ultimate goal of experimentally approaching the quantum limit of photons-per-bit in a data-link. To meet this goal, the Center for E3S strives to improve energy efficiency and sensitivity of both the emitter and the photo-receiver. Central to the E3S nanophotonics research goals has been the demonstration that spontaneous emission from antenna enhanced nano-LEDs can be faster and more energy efficient than the stimulated emission of lasers, the ubiquitous light source in optical communications today. The team is led by UC Berkeley Professor Ming Wu.
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The Center for Energy Efficient Electronics Science (E3S) is a Science and Technology Center funded by the U. S. National Science Foundation, and is a consortium of world class academic institutions. We are working in a collaborative and innovative environment to make fundamental and conceptual breakthroughs in the underlying physics, chemistry, and materials science of electronic systems, breakthroughs needed to reduce these systems’ energy consumption by orders of magnitude.
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This course was created by the Center for Energy Efficient Electronics Science (E3S), a Science and Technology Center funded by the U. S. National Science Foundation (Award #0939514).
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