After three years of extensive research, Dr. Uriel Levy, PhD, a physicist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and his team have developed new technologies that enable our computers and all optical communications equipment to use terahertz microchips and run at speeds up to 100 times faster.
So far, there are two major challenges in creating a terahertz microchip: Overheating and scalability.
In a paper published this week in the 'Laser and Optoelectronics Review', Dr. Levy, head of the nanophotovoltaic research team at the Hebrew University, and Joseph Shappir, Professor Emeritus at the Hebrew University, demonstrated a new optical technology concept that will The speed of optical communication is integrated with the reliability of electronic products and manufacturing scalability.
Optical communication covers all technologies that use light and transmit it over fiber-optic cables, such as the Internet, e-mail, text messaging, telephones, cloud computing and data centers. Optical communications are very fast, but in microchips, they become unreliable and hard to A large number of copies.
Now, with the metal oxide-nitride-oxide-silicon (MONOS) structure, Dr. Levy and his team proposed a new type of integrated circuit that integrates flash technology—flash drives and flash drives—into microchips. If successful This technology will enable the standard 8-16 Gigahertz computer to run up to 100 times faster, and will bring all optical devices closer to the Holy Grail-terahertz chip for communications.
As Dr. Uriel Levy shared, 'this discovery can help fill in the 'THz Blank' and create new, more powerful wireless devices that transmit data at a much higher speed than is currently possible. In the world, this is a technique that changes the rules of the game.
The project leader, Meir Grajower, a student of Dr. Levy, added: 'Now you can use flash technology to produce any optical device with precision and cost-effectiveness.'