{"id":26387,"date":"2016-06-02T14:02:38","date_gmt":"2016-06-02T21:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/tiny-lasers-enable-next-gen-microprocessors-to-run-faster-less-power-hungry"},"modified":"2017-04-24T20:40:53","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T03:40:53","slug":"tiny-lasers-enable-next-gen-microprocessors-to-run-faster-less-power-hungry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/tiny-lasers-enable-next-gen-microprocessors-to-run-faster-less-power-hungry","title":{"rendered":"Tiny lasers enable next-gen microprocessors to run faster, less power-hungry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tiny-lasers-enable-next-gen-microprocessors-to-run-faster-less-power-hungry.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>More energy efficient, high performance microprocessors on the way.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<b>Abstract:<\/b> Tiny high-performance lasers grown directly on silicon wafers solve a decades-old semiconductor industry challenge that, until now, has held back the integration of photonics with electronics on the silicon platform,<\/p>\n<p>A group of scientists from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; the University of California, Santa Barbara; Sandia National Laboratories and Harvard University were able to fabricate tiny lasers directly on silicon \u2014 a huge breakthrough for the semiconductor industry and well beyond.<\/p>\n<p>For more than 30 years, the crystal lattice of silicon and of typical laser materials could not match up, making it impossible to integrate the two materials \u2014 until now.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nanotech-now.com\/news.cgi?story_id=53521\">http:\/\/www.nanotech-now.com\/news.cgi?story_id=53521<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More energy efficient, high performance microprocessors on the way. Abstract: Tiny high-performance lasers grown directly on silicon wafers solve a decades-old semiconductor industry challenge that, until now, has held back the integration of photonics with electronics on the silicon platform, A group of scientists from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; the University of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1694,1497,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","category-energy","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26387","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26387"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50326,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26387\/revisions\/50326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}