Research

RTD Nanopillars

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This project invokes a "bottom-up" approach to photonic crystal lasers on silicon for next generation optoelectronic transceivers in the Tb/s range. The photonic crystal laser is composed of entirely of pattened compound semiconductor nanopillars grown epitaxial on a Si substrate to realize a compact, high-efficiency light source. Future applications dramatically increase bandwidth and reduce power consumption in high performance computer clusters and data centers.