Integrated all-photonic non-volatile multi-level memory

Nature Photonics

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 725-732

  Rios, Carlos ^a   Stegmaier, Matthias ^b   Hosseini, Peiman ^a   Wang, Di ^b   Scherer, Torsten ^b   Wright, C David ^c   Bhaskaran, Harish ^a   Pernice, Wolfram H P ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; OPTICAL SWITCHES; PHASE CHANGE MATERIALS;

COMPUTATIONAL CAPABILITY; COMPUTING ARCHITECTURE; ELECTRICAL MEMORY; IMPROVE PERFORMANCE; INTERMEDIATE STATE; OPTICAL NEAR FIELD; SINGLE-SHOT READOUT; WAVELENGTH MULTIPLEXING;

PHASE CHANGE MEMORY;

EID: 84945910038     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2015.182     Document Type: Article

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