Plasmonics

Plasmonics breakthrough promises faster computers and communications

By Dario Borghino

17:14 October 21, 2009 PDT

Plasmonics is a promising emerging technology that attempts to put together the best of two worlds — optics and electronics — to achieve faster computation and communication by making optical devices significantly smaller. In recent research, a team of European scientists has solved a long-standing problem in this field by sending signals over a long distance in a breakthrough that brings this technology much closer to mass production. Read More