UC Berkeley NewsCenter » lasers http://newscenter.berkeley.edu News from the University of California, Berkeley Sat, 18 May 2013 20:48:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Engineers grow nanolasers on silicon, pave way for on-chip photonics http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/02/06/silicon-nanolasers/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/02/06/silicon-nanolasers/#comments Sun, 06 Feb 2011 18:00:04 +0000 Sarah Yang http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=5302 Engineers grow nanolasers on silicon, pave way for on-chip photonicsUC Berkeley engineers have found a way to grow nanolasers directly onto a silicon surface, an achievement that could lead to a new class of faster, more efficient microprocessors, as well as to powerful biochemical sensors that use optoelectronic chips. ]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/02/06/silicon-nanolasers/feed/ 0