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Post date: May 25, 2012 6:10:35 AM

"Energy dissipation in energy transfer mediated by optical near-field interactions and their interfaces with optical far-fields,"

M. Naruse(NICT), P. Holmström(Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)), T. Kawazoe(Univ. Tokyo), K. Akahane(NICT), N. Yamamoto(NICT), L. Thylén(KTH/HP labs), and M. Ohtsu(Univ. Tokyo): Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 100, No. 24, pp. 241102 1-4, June 2012.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4729003

We theoretically and experimentally evaluated energy dissipation of nanophotonic devices based on energy transfer via near-field interactions and their interfaces with optical far-fields. The lower bound is about 10⁴ times more energy-efficient than electronic devices. We also examined some fundamental differences between near-field-mediated optical energy transfer logic and electrical logic in terms of energy dissipation.

The following article appeared in Appl. Phys. Lett. 100, 193106 (2012) and may be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4729003 Copyright (2012) American Institute of Physics. This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the American Institute of Physics.