Organic printed photonics: From microring lasers to integrated circuits

Science Advances

Volumn 1, Issue 8, 2015, Pages

  Zhang, Chuang ^a   Zou, Chang Ling ^b   Zhao, Yan ^a   Dong, Chun Hua ^b   Wei, Cong ^a   Wang, Hanlin ^a   Liu, Yunqi ^a   Guo, Guang Can ^b   Yao, Jiannian ^a   Zhao, Yong Sheng ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLEXIBLE ELECTRONICS; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; LIGHT; OPTICAL RESONATORS; ORGANIC LASERS; PHOTONIC DEVICES; PHOTONICS; PRINTING; RESONATORS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SILICON WAFERS; TIMING CIRCUITS; WAVEGUIDES; WSI CIRCUITS;

CONSTRUCTION STRATEGIES; LARGE-SCALE FABRICATION; MATERIAL COMPATIBILITY; ONE-DIMENSIONAL WAVEGUIDES; ORGANIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ORGANIC MOLECULAR MATERIAL; PHOTONIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; POLYMER MICRORING RESONATORS;

PHOTONIC INTEGRATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 85038035497     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23752548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1500257     Document Type: Article

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