Emrah Acar photo Solomon Assefa photo TYMON BARWICZ photo
William M. J. Green photo Jens Hofrichter photo Jonathan E. (Jon) Proesel photo
Jessie C. Rosenberg photo Alexander V. Rylyakov photoYurii A. Vlasov photo

Research Areas

Additional information

2012 IEDM postdeadline paper

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2012 CLEO Plenary talk

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2012 IEEE Comm. Mag., Silicon Nanophotonics Beyond 100G

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2011 IBM R&D Journal: Technologies for Exascale systems

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2010 SEMICON Talk: CMOS Nanophotonics for Exascale

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2008 ECOC Tutorial: On-Chip Si Nanophotonics

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Project Name

Silicon Integrated Nanophotonics


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Technology Development

  • "CMOS Integrated Silicon Nanophotonics: Enabling Technology for Exascale Computational Systems", William Green, Solomon Assefa, Alexander Rylyakov, Clint Schow, Folkert Horst, and Yurii Vlasov, Invited talk at the
    SEMICON Conference    , Tokyo , December 1 (2010)
    PDF file with presentation slides
    See also CMOS Integrated Nanophotonics

  • “CMOS integrated optical receivers for on-chip interconnects,” S. Assefa, C. Schow, F. Xia, W. M. J. Green, A. Rylyakov, and Y. Vlasov
    IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics    , 16(5) 1376-1385 (2010).
    paper (subscription required)

  • “Integration of Germanium Avalanche Photodetectors on Silicon for On-Chip Optical Interconnects”, Solomon Assefa, Fengnian Xia, and Yurii A. Vlasov,
    Electrochemical Society Transactions     , v. 23 (6), pp. 749 – 756, 2010
    paper (subscription required)

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