[News Feed] Rice Researchers Gain New Insight Into Nanoscale Optics

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New findings in the journal Nano Letters demonstrate an important analogy between electronics and optics that may enable light waves to be coupled efficiently to nanoscale structures and devices. Rice University scientists have discovered a universal relationship between the behavior of light and electrons, and they believe it may be exploited to create nanoscale antennae that convert light into broadband electrical signals capable of carrying approximately 1 million times more data than existing on-chip interconnects.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0915010138.htm