Band-Structure-Engineered Electronic-Photonic Nonlinear Activation Functions

Xu, Zheheng; Burghoff, David

doi:10.1103/physrevapplied.18.064038

Phys. Rev. Applied

2022

DOI: 10.1103/physrevapplied.18.064038

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Band-Structure-Engineered Electronic-Photonic Nonlinear Activation Functions

Zheheng Xu

David Burghoff²

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Band-Structure-Engineered Electronic-Photonic Nonlinear Activation Functions

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Hybrid integrated germanium-on-zinc selenide waveguides for enhanced longwave infrared sensing

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Bandstructure Engineered Nonlinear Activation Unit for Photonic Neural Networks

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