Silicon photonics: The next fabless semiconductor industry

IEEE Solid-State Circuits Magazine

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 48-58

  Hochberg, Michael ^a   Harris, Nicholas ^a   Ding, Ran ^a   Zhang, Yi ^b   Novack, Ari ^c   Xuan, Zhe ^a   Baehr Jones, Tom ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMERA CHIP; FABLESS; SEMICONDUCTOR INDUSTRY; SILICON PHOTONICS;

ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MANUFACTURE;

PHOTONICS;

EID: 84873620369     PISSN: 19430582     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MSSC.2012.2232791     Document Type: Article

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