Prof. Ying XUE won US$100,000 in Optica Foundation Challenge 2023
Congratulations to Prof. Ying XUE, Research Assistant Professor of the Division of Emerging Interdisciplinary Areas (EMIA), for winning US$100,000 from the Optica Foundation Challenge 2023, which recognizes ten early-career professionals with exceptional ideas to leverage optics and photonics and address global challenges.
In her proposal “Monolithic III-V active devices in-plane coupled with Si for integrated Si-photonics”, Prof. XUE addresses the challenge of the staggering growth in the volume of data traffic which pushes the performance limits of Silicon-based integrated circuits and systems in present computing nodes and datacenters.
In an efficient, scalable and lost-cost manner, the novel design of integrating III-V active devices with silicon-based components on the same chip, will enable new-generation communications and various emerging applications and research areas, including supercomputers, artificial intelligence (AI), biomedicine, automotive applications, neural and quantum networks, sensing and LIDAR etc.
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