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October 13, 2016

Filming light and electrons coupled together as they travel under cover
Lausanne, Switzerland (SPX) Oct 13, 2016
In a breakthrough for future optical-electronic hybrid computers, scientists at EPFL have developed an ultrafast technique that can track light and electrons as they travel through a nanostructured surface. When light couples to electrons on a surface, their concerted motion can travel as a wave guided by the surface geometry itself. These waves are known as "surface plasmons" and might be useful in telecommunications and future computing, where data will be shuttled across processors using light ... read more

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