nanoarun

Its quite common these days to come across talks and papers that talk about "photons replacing electrons" in computation and communication Coming from an ex-nanoelectronics background, and now rooted in a micro-ultrafast-optics {well , I can stretch my field into the nano regime by claiming that my Bragg gratings are in nms... 100s of nms that is :-) } , I obviously cannot be biased towards either of them, you see.. And yet, I must say that optics have a looooong way to catch up ... eventhough terms like nanolasers and nanooptics are freely floating around... to be able to challenge the "conventional" (Oh, well "traditional" may be) electron based (either Si or even III-V) ones will be quite a challenge ... how much ever you talk about improved switching speeds and stuff ... Neways, here's a nice article that I came across... once more, optimistically loyal to the field http://www.ece.northwestern.edu/~sth/SA.pdf 7 years have passed ever since that one

So, finally, they are in, but playing it a bit safer.. starting off as tech-partner and equity-holder .. http://www.business-standard.com/common/storypage.php?storyflag=y&leftnm=lmnu1&leftindx=1&lselect=1&chklogin=N&autono=220616 Moving closer to signing a deal with June Min-promoted Nano-Tech Silicon India (NTSI) Ltd for the proposed fab facility in Hyderabad, both as a technology partner and an equity-holder and also see http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=122449 Just wonder, why din't we have this kinna talk a few years before ?!.. O well, everything has its time, I guess