Team Builds Mid-infrared Lumped Nanocircuit

Patricia Daukantas

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania (U.S.A.) have built a working 2-D optical nanocircuit designed out of “lumped” elements analogous to the familiar building blocks of electronic circuitry.

 

Scatts-img4.jpgMid-infrared lumped nanocircuit made of rectangular rods of silicon nitride, between 175 nm and 325 nm thick.

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania (U.S.A.) have built a working 2-D optical nanocircuit designed out of “lumped” elements analogous to the familiar building blocks of electronic circuitry (Nature Mater. 11, 208).

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