The importance of chemistry and materials science in the generation of microscopic patterns that form the basis for modern electronic devices will be described in very general terms.
The goal for optical information processing is to use the unique characteristics of light which are not readily achieved with electronic devices: Namely, ultra-high speed (picosecond), a high deg
As information bandwidths increase, optical technologies are playing an increasingly important role in areas which were traditionally the domain of electronics.
Future opportunities in photonic switching and information processing will depend critically on the development of improved photonic materials.
Millions of connectors and splices are presently in use in fiber optic telecommunication networks, local area networks, and data links.
The materials of electronic systems can be summarized in terms of relatively few basic elements and compounds.
The explosion in our capability to transmit and process information is possible because of the continued improvement in cost and performance of integrated circuits.
The American Physical Society (APS) convented Summary: The American Physical Society (APS) convened this Sudy Group to evaluate the statis of the science and technology of directed energy weapons (
Ion implantation, because it is inherently a strongly nonequilibrium process, can add a totally new dimension to materials studies.
Advances in polymer materials technology have allowed the development of perfluorinated graded-index polymer optical fibers that have loss and bandwidth performance competitive with multimode silic
