Stanford's Nano-Scale LEDs Faster Than Lasers

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Researchers at Stanford's School of Engineering have developed new nano-scale LEDs that are able to transmit data faster than lasers while consuming less power.

A team at Stanford's School of Engineering has demonstrated an ultrafast nanoscale light-emitting diode (LED) that is orders of magnitude lower in power consumption than today's laser-based systems and is able to transmit data at the very rapid rate of 10 billion bits per second. The researchers say it is a major step forward in providing a practical ultrafast, low-power light source for on-chip data transmission.
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The first thing I thought when I saw the pic on the [H] front page was a minature football stadium, with the Stanford marching band doing something to get them kicked off TV. :D

The article sounds cool, like a previous story about forcing silicon to lase.. No mention of practicality though.
 
Networking? Computer architecture? Looks extremely cool, but they didn't explain any applications for it. :confused:
 
Protoform-X said:
Networking? Computer architecture? Looks extremely cool, but they didn't explain any applications for it. :confused:
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The researchers say it is a major step forward in providing a practical ultrafast, low-power light source for on-chip data transmission.
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Come on, you didn't even have to read the damn article for that one.
 
How does the math work out? that's 10,000,000,000 bits/sec. This is 1,200,000,000 bytes/sec. Today's fiber is is 10GB/sec ...which is 10,220,000,000 bytes/sec.
 
lasers are light

these are faster than lasers

these are faster than light!?!

help me out here :confused:
 
ok for those that didn't read it, 10 billion bits = 10 Gb = half the rate of current Thunderbolt//LightPeak (but it may be actually the same speed as TB is bidirectionally speaking), and we aren't running around saying that Thunderbolt is useless (well, for the general user ATM it may be)


On the other hand Steve got it wrong, it isn't faster per se, it is orders of magnitude more power efficient, which is quite the feat. And as per standard, really the first place were that technology oughta pop up is in the army.

Also jstnomega it can be faster than laser methods in the sense that it can turn on//off faster, and since both are light based (the whole point of optronics and photonics), it would be able to transmit more data in the same time, being effectively faster.
 
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