Title :
Silicon microspheres for VLSI silicon CMOS microphotonics
Author_Institution :
Phys. Dept., Koc Univ., Istanbul, Turkey
Abstract :
We analyzed silicon microspheres as the building blocks for VLSI silicon CMOS microphotonics. The silicon microsphere has twelve communication ports in three independent dimensions and can easily be integrated in longitudinal, transverse and vertical directions.
Keywords :
CMOS integrated circuits; VLSI; elemental semiconductors; micro-optics; silicon; CMOS; Si; VLSI; communication ports; complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor; microphotonics; microspheres; very large scale integration; CMOS integrated circuits; Optical fibers; Optical resonators; Photonics; Silicon; Very large scale integration;
Conference_Titel :
Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference (OECC), 2012 17th
Conference_Location :
Busan
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-0976-9
Electronic_ISBN :
2166-8884
DOI :
10.1109/OECC.2012.6276672
