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, ...

(Nanowerk News) Current computer systems represent bits of information, the 1's and 0's of binary code, with electricity. Circuit elements, such as transistors, operate on these electric signals, ...

Peterborough, N.H. LED pioneer Nick Holonyak and his colleague Milton Feng at the University of Illinois are reporting a significant improvement in a hybrid optical transistor they previously devised.

Controlling and modulating the flow of light is essential in today's telecommunications-based society. Professor Tobias Kippenberg and his team in EPFL's Laboratory of Photonics and Quantum ...

An international research team led by Skoltech and IBM has created an extremely energy-efficient optical switch that could replace electronic transistors in a new generation of computers manipulating ...

(Nanowerk News) An international research team led by Skoltech and IBM has created an extremely energy-efficient optical switch that could replace electronic transistors in a new generation of ...

Optical signals in conventional optoelectronic devices have to be converted into electronic signals when they are amplified or manipulated. But the slow pace of electrons through silicon-based ...

LONDON — Researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich) have reported the fabrication of an optical transistor from a single molecule. By focusing a laser beam on a single ...

Researchers in Switzerland have made the world's smallest optical transistor ever from a single dye molecule. The device, which works by weakening or amplifying a "source" laser beam depending on the ...

Engineers have taken an important step toward the creation of a working optical transistor: precisely controlling the mixing of optical signals via tailored electric fields, and obtaining outputs with ...

Contrary to current trends, the CPU may get bigger in the future. Yes, the size of CPUs are larger today than they were in the past, but they also pack in more transistors. The future may involve ...