The Role of Optics in High-Speed interconnects

摘要

Welcome to our special focus on Advanced Interconnects, a joint supplement between Semiconductor International and EP&P. As the world moves to faster communications, a greater focus will be on the interconnects used on the chip, within the package and on the board. We begin with an interview with Professor Lionel C. Kimerling, director of the Microphotonics Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT, Cambridge, Mass.). The goal of the Microphotonics Center is the creation of new materials, structures and architectures to enable the evolution of photonics from discrete devices to integrated photonic systems. High dielectric contrast materials combinations enable smaller devices, lower power transduction and higher local fields to drive nonlinear interactions.