Attojoule Nano-Optoelectronics
AFOSR MURI: Ultralow Power, Ultrafast, Integrated Nano-Optoelectronics
OUR
GOALS
FOR THIS PROGRAM:
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Introduce and develop revolutionary concepts to model, design, analyze, fabricate and
characterize ultralow-power, ultrafast, high-density, compact, scalable optoelectronic
nanodevices and dense arrays of them, envisioning the next generation of integrated
nanophotonic systems
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Realize nanophotonic devices enabling operations in the femtosecond, nanometer and attojoule
ranges, all within a CMOS-compatible, directly scalable, room-temperature environment at
elecommunication wavelengths
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Device engineering: Modulators, switches, metasurfaces, zero-energy analog computing,
opto-electronic systems
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Metrics of success: Ultralow energy/bit, speed, bandwidth, insertion loss, size reduction,
integrability
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Impact for DoD and national grand challenges: Integrated nanophotonics, optical
communications, data processing, data storage and computing, low-energy computation, optical
signal manipulation, localized emitters
