Save
Email
Print
ShareSep. 24, 2009 — Photonics, the science of using photons to carry information, promises to continue improving a wide variety of technologies, from computing to high-speed communication.
Now an international team of researchers from the UK, Taiwan, and Spain have discovered a compact way to produce infrared light, by firing electrons through a miniscule tunnel in a stack of gold and silica layers.
The tiny, tunable light source could be the predecessor of a new component for light-based chips.
The device is outlined in Physical Review Letters and highlighted with a Synopsis in the September 21, 2009 issue of Physics.
Other social bookmarking and sharing tools:
Story Source:
The above story is reprinted from materials provided by American Physical Society, via EurekAlert!, a service of AAAS.
Note: Materials may be edited for content and length. For further information, please contact the source cited above.
Note: If no author is given, the source is cited instead.
more 
