Scientists develop new materials for board-level photonics
Tuesday, February 5, 2013 - 09:10
in Physics & Chemistry
Today at the Photonics West conference, Dow Corning and IBM scientists unveiled a major step in photonics, using a new type of polymer material to transmit light instead of electrical signals within supercomputers and data centers. This new silicone-based material offers better physical properties, including robustness and flexibility, making them ideal for applications in Big Data and for the development of future exascale computers, which are capable of performing a billion billion computations per second.