Researchers claim to have fabricated the first all-optical transistor on a silicon chip. This device allows the transmission of light emitted by one laser to be governed by the intensity of another.

Physicists have experimentally demonstrated the feasibility of designing an optical analog of a transistor based on a single silicon nanoparticle. Because transistors are some of the most fundamental ...

Fast switching: the Hybrid Photonics Labs at Skoltech where the new optical transistor was created. (Courtesy: Skoltech) A new optical transistor has been designed by researchers in Russia, ...

Researchers from ETH Zurich have recently managed to create an optical transistor from a single molecule in what is yet another important achievement on the road to quantum computing. Quantum ...

Optical connections are slowly replacing wires as a means of shuffling bits in between systems—there are already plans afoot to have different components within a single system communicate via an ...

A layered transistor design combines light detection optical memory and neuromorphic processing in one unit offering compact and efficient artificial vision hardware. (Nanowerk Spotlight) Artificial ...

While many research efforts are underway to develop active devices that can function in the challenging terahertz spectrum, others are leapfrogging to try to get some devices operate into the ...

ERFURT, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--X-FAB Silicon Foundries, the leading More-than-Moore foundry, today introduced XS018, the first specialized 0.18µm CMOS process for fast and large image sensor pixels ...