On-chip optical interconnect

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 97, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1186-1196

  Ohashi, Keishi ^a,b   Nishi, Kenichi ^c   Shimizu, Takanori ^c   Nakada, Masafumi ^a,b   Fujikata, Junichi ^c   Ushida, Jun ^c   Toru, Sunao ^c   Nose, Koichi ^c   Mizuno, Masayuki ^c   Yukawa, Hiroaki ^c   Kinoshita, Masao ^c   Suzuki, Nobuo ^c   Gomyo, Akiko ^c   Ishi, Tsutomu ^c   Okamoto, Daisuke ^c   Furue, Katsuya ^c   Ueno, Toshihide ^c   Tsuchizawa, Tai ^d   Watanabe, Toshifumi ^d   Yamada, Koji ^d   Itabashi, Sei Ichi ^d   Akedo, Jun ^e   more..

^a MIRAI Selete   (Japan)

^b NEC CORPORATION   (Japan)

^c SEMICONDUCTOR LEADING EDGE TECHNOLOGIES INC   (Japan)

^d NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

Clocks; Lanthanum modified lead zirconium titanate (plzt) ceramics; Optical interconnections; Photodiodes

Indexed keywords

CLOCKS; COST EFFECTIVENESS; ELECTROOPTICAL MATERIALS; LANTHANUM COMPOUNDS; LEAD COMPOUNDS; LIGHT MODULATORS; LSI CIRCUITS; NITROGEN COMPOUNDS; OPERATIONAL AMPLIFIERS; OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS; PHOTODIODES; SILICON; SILICON COMPOUNDS; SURFACE PLASMONS; ZIRCONIUM COMPOUNDS;

BONDED STRUCTURE; ELECTROOPTICAL COEFFICIENT; ELECTROOPTICAL MODULATORS; LARGE SCALE INTEGRATION CHIPS; LEAD ZIRCONIUM TITANATE; ON-CHIP OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS; OPTICAL DETECTORS; SURFACE PLASMON ANTENNA;

INTEGRATED CIRCUIT INTERCONNECTS;

EID: 67449147429     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2009.2020331     Document Type: Article

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