Wave Photonics Pioneers Advancements In Photonics Development And Utilisation

One of the defining features of modern life is consumer electronics. Smart devices with computational power that would have been staggering a few decades ago are now so commonplace that they're completely taken for granted, and many people are never without their smartphone.

A big reason for this is just how efficiently the components of these devices can be manufactured, and the best example is the transistor, the component that underpins all modern electronic devices. The MOSFET (the most widely-used type of transistor) was invented by Mohamed Atalla and Dawon Kahng at Bell Labs in 1960, and since then it's become so ubiquitous that it's been claimed to be the most-manufactured item in human history. It's now routine, for example, for every smartphone to contain over ten billion transistors crammed into its casing; indeed, Moore's law, the famous observation that the number of transistors per integrated circuit roughly doubles every two years, has more or less