{"id":175615,"date":"2023-11-08T03:23:27","date_gmt":"2023-11-08T09:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/an-energy-efficient-transmitter-based-on-a-cmos-chip-and-silicon-photonics"},"modified":"2023-11-08T03:23:27","modified_gmt":"2023-11-08T09:23:27","slug":"an-energy-efficient-transmitter-based-on-a-cmos-chip-and-silicon-photonics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/an-energy-efficient-transmitter-based-on-a-cmos-chip-and-silicon-photonics","title":{"rendered":"An energy efficient transmitter based on a CMOS chip and silicon photonics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/an-energy-efficient-transmitter-based-on-a-cmos-chip-and-silicon-photonics2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The widespread use of electronic devices to interact with others and access the internet has increased the need for highly performing communication technologies that can transmit data faster and more efficiently. Increasing the data transmission rate of devices without adversely impacting their energy efficiency, however, is a challenging task.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at University of Southampton in the UK recently developed a promising new <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/transmitter\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">transmitter<\/a> based on complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) technology and <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/silicon+photonics\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">silicon photonics<\/a>. This transmitter, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41928-023-01048-1\">introduced<\/a> in <i>Nature Electronics<\/i>, was found to achieve remarkable data transmission rates while consuming minimal energy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe integration of silicon photonics with electronics is essential for producing practical systems for numerous applications,\u201d David J. Thomson, one of the authors of the paper, told Tech Xplore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The widespread use of electronic devices to interact with others and access the internet has increased the need for highly performing communication technologies that can transmit data faster and more efficiently. Increasing the data transmission rate of devices without adversely impacting their energy efficiency, however, is a challenging task. Researchers at University of Southampton in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}