Porous Silicon: From Formation to Applications: Optoelectronics, Microelectronics, and Energy Technology Applications, Volume Three

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Passive and Active Optical Components for Optoelectronics Based on Porous Silicon

Raghvendra S. Dubey

4.1 Introduction

Interconnects has become a primary bottleneck in integrated circuit design. Due to continuous scaling of CMOS technology, in the coming future it will be more challenging to meet the optimal requirements such as delay, power, bandwidth, noise, and so on with the conventional interconnects. In deep submicrometer VLSI technologies, interconnect plays a vital role. However, the interconnection delays have put the limitations on the operating speed of microelectronics devices. One promising candidate to satisfy these performance objectives is optical interconnects, which is the main motivation to look for silicon photonics. Even ...