Replace Electricity With Light
In an attempt to appeal to the super-geeky side of the readers here (myself included) here is a
story that David Levesque sent in about "Super-fast computers that use light to
calculate and communicate" basically in an attempt to replace electricity (!) to
process and store information. This is pretty much that crazy StarTrek stuff but the
development team believes we can start to see the fruits of their labor within 5 years.
Unlike current silicon chips, which are made in two-dimensional layers, Prof. Ozin's group has had to make a three-dimensional structure in order to trap light. They have also had to arrange and order the silicon atoms to the precise size to block a light wave, in this case, 1.5 microns or one one-100th of a millimetre.
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