Monolithic Integration of Microphotonics with CMOS Microelectronics Using Molecularly Engineered Materials and Nanostructures

Plasmonic Bragg reflector and its application on optical switching

“…There are approaches to integrate microelectronic and microphotonics into the same chip based on silicon [2,3,4]. But some of the approaches are still based on the transduction of photons to electrons and the electronic processing components and cannot fully incorporate optical components and explore their potential in ultra fast optical circuits.…”

“…The relaxation time of electrons is τ , which means collisions occur on average every τ seconds. And the probability of collision is 1/τ 4…”

“…4 for different insulator thickness[41], while Au is used for the metal layers and a SiO 2 layer is used as the insulator.…”