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Transparent Conductive Oxide-based Mach-Zehnder Modulator in Silicon Photonics

Transparent conductive oxides (TCO) like Indium tin oxide (ITO) are extensively adopted in high-tech industry such as in touchscreen displays of smartphones or contacts for solar cells. Until recently, ITO has been explored for electro-optic modulation using its free-carrier dispersive effect. Electro-optic modulators largely determine the transmission...

Published: 9/30/2024 | Inventor(s): Volker Sorger, Rubab Amin

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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Computers Electronics & Software > Processing Chips, Technology Classifications > Computers Electronics & Software, Technology Classifications > Computers Electronics & Software > Sensors

Photonic Tensor Core Matrix Vector Multiplier

High-computation speed is a need of an hour in today’s artificial intelligence era. In existing general-purpose processors, matrix operations occur serially, while requiring continuous access to the cache memory, thus creating the “von Neumann bottleneck” problem. The revolutionizing impact of Neural Networks (NNs) have contributed...

Published: 9/30/2024 | Inventor(s): Mario Miscuglio, Volker Sorger

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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Computers Electronics & Software > Processing Chips, Technology Classifications > Computers Electronics & Software > Computing Architecture

Strain-Engineered Integrated MoTe2 Photodetector for High Responsivity

Photodetectors are important part for photonic circuitry, which converts photons to electric signal. The ability of a photonic device to convert light energy to electrical energy depends on the band gap of the photoconductive material, which dictates how efficiently the material can absorb depending on the frequency of the light energy. Existing photoconductive...

Published: 9/30/2024 | Inventor(s): Rishi Maiti, Volker Sorger

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Optical Digital to Analog Converter

Digital-to-analog converters are indispensable functional units in signal transmission and also an essential part of the optical computing. In previous systems, the conversion of a digital electronic signal to an analog optical signal has been achieved by first converting the digital electronic signal to an analog electronic signal and then converting...

Published: 9/30/2024 | Inventor(s): Volker Sorger, Jonathan George

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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Computers Electronics & Software > Computing Architecture, Technology Classifications > Computers Electronics & Software > Processing Chips

Massively Parallel Amplitude-only Optical Processing System for Machine Learning

Machine learning has become a driving force in modern technology. However, existing technology cannot keep up with its demand, due to limitations by capacitive charging of wires, system architecture that stores and handles data, and many more. Deep learning algorithms like, Convolution Neural Networks (CNN), extracts specific features of interest, using...

Published: 9/30/2024 | Inventor(s): Mario Miscuglio, Volker Sorger

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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Computers Electronics & Software, Technology Classifications > Computers Electronics & Software > Artificial Intelligence, Technology Classifications > Computers Electronics & Software > Cloud Computing, Technology Classifications > Computers Electronics & Software > Computing Architecture, Technology Classifications > Computers Electronics & Software > Processing Chips

Low Loss Multistate Photonic Memories

High-computation speed is a need of an hour in today’s artificial intelligence era. An energy efficient and high-speed photonic memory device to transmit information in Photonic Integrate Circuits (PICs) will have great advantage in computing speeds. The photonic memories consists of an optical input, multiple configurations for reading and writing...

Published: 9/30/2024 | Inventor(s): Volker Sorger, Mario Miscuglio

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Category(s): Technology Classifications, Technology Classifications > Computers Electronics & Software, Technology Classifications > Computers Electronics & Software > Artificial Intelligence, Technology Classifications > Computers Electronics & Software > Processing Chips, Technology Classifications > Computers Electronics & Software > Computing Architecture

Two-dimensional material printer and transfer system and method for atomically layered materials

Clean, fast, and accurate transfer of 2D materials, are a critical technology in production of all devices that need 2D materials on top of it. Existing technologies are inefficient in accurately placing a 2D material without cross contamination or mechanical damage to neighboring devices on chip. Thus, a precise and contamination free approach of placement...

Published: 9/30/2024 | Inventor(s): Volker Sorger, Rohit Hemnani

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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Computers Electronics & Software, Technology Classifications > Computers Electronics & Software > Processing Chips, Technology Classifications, Technology Classifications > Computers Electronics & Software > Artificial Intelligence, Technology Classifications > Computers Electronics & Software > Computing Architecture

Compact ultra-low power 2x2 Photonic Switch on Silicon

Researchers at George Washington University recently invented an optical switching technology for future photonics network-on-chip (NOC). This invention enables compact, cost-effective two orders of magnitude increases in bandwidth and dramatically more energy-efficient communication between CPU’s compared to traditional electrical interconnects....

Published: 7/30/2024 | Inventor(s): Volker Sorger, Chenran Ye, Ke Liu

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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Computers Electronics & Software > Sensors, Technology Classifications > Computers Electronics & Software > Computing Architecture

Two Optical Convolutional Neural Network Accelerator

In today's AI revolution, Neural Networks (NNs) have taken center stage, driving remarkable progress in artificial intelligence over the past decade. However, existing technologies like FPGA and GPU implementations, though widely used for accelerating Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) face significant limitations in terms of speed, energy efficiency,...

Published: 7/30/2024 | Inventor(s): Armin Mehrabian, Volker Sorger, Tarek El-Ghazawi, Mario Miscuglio

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Category(s): Technology Classifications, Technology Classifications > Computers Electronics & Software

Hybrid interconnects for on-chip communication: A solution with low latency and efficient energy consumption

As computer chip feature size continue to decrease, power consumed due to on-chip communications will dramatically grow. This calls for new techniques which can provide higher bandwidth and data rates than over traditional electrical interconnects. Photonic interconnects can provide higher bandwidth and data rates. However optoelectronic...

Published: 7/30/2024 | Inventor(s): Shuai Sun, Volker Sorger, Tarek El-Ghazawi, Vikram Narayana, Abdel-Hameed Badawy

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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Industrial or Consumer Tech > Energy Infrastructure and Environment, Technology Classifications > Industrial or Consumer Tech > Materials, Technology Classifications > Computers Electronics & Software > Processing Chips

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