Scientific breakthrough to potentially revolutionise
high-speed electronics, nanoscale opto-electronics and nonlinear optics
Assistant Professor Christian A. Nijhuis of the Department
of Chemistry at the National University of Singapore’s (NUS) Faculty of
Science, in collaboration with researchers from the Agency for Science,
Technology and Research (A*STAR), namely Dr Bai Ping of the Institute of High
Performance Computing and Dr Michel Bosman of the Institute of Materials Research
and Engineering has successfully designed and fabricated electrical circuits
that can operate at hundreds of terahertz frequencies, which is tens of
thousands times faster than today’s state-of-the-art microprocessors.