Energy consumption in digital optical ICs with plasmon waveguide interconnects

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 19, Issue 24, 2007, Pages 2036-2038

  Tucker, Rodney S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Complementary metal oxide semiconductor integrated circuits (CMOS ICs); Energy per bit; Optical integrated circuits (ICs); Plasmon waveguides

Indexed keywords

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; DIGITAL INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS; PLASMONS;

DIGITAL OPTICAL INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ENERGY PER BIT; PLASMON WAVEGUIDES;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 36849069382     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2007.909629     Document Type: Article

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