After three years of research, Dr. Uliel Levy, PhD, a physicist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and his team invented a new chip technology.
This type of device, called a terahertz microchip, allows our computers and all optical communication devices to operate at faster speeds.
So far, two major challenges have hampered the manufacturing of terahertz microchips, namely overheating and scalability.
However, in a paper published this week in the 'Laser and Optoelectronics Review', the head of the Nano-opto Group, Professor Emeritus Joseph, demonstrated the concept of a new optical technology, the optical technology concept of optical communication speeds and Electronic product reliability and manufacturing scalability.
Optical communications include all technical devices that use light and transmit through optical fibers, such as the Internet, e-mail, SMS, telephony, cloud, and data centers.
Optical communications are very fast, but in microchips, they become unreliable and difficult to replicate in large numbers.
Now, Levy and his team used a metal-nitride-silicon nitride (MONOS) structure and discovered a new integrated circuit that uses flash memory technology.
If successful, this technology will increase the speed of the standard 8-16 GHz computer by 100 times, and will bring all optical devices closer to the terahertz chip.
As Dr. Uriel Levy shared, 'this finding will help fill in the 'THZ divide' and create new and more powerful wireless devices that can transmit data at higher speeds than it currently does.'
In the high-tech field, this is a technology that changes the rules of the game.
The project's Meir Grajower added, 'Now you can make any optical device with the precision and cost-effectiveness of flash technology.'
