Nano-LEDS brighten nanocircuit prospects

Techniques to integrate electronic and optical circuits are crucial for developing data-handling and transfer devices that are both ultrafast and compact. Now Mark Brongersma, Min-Kyo Seo and a team of researchers in the US and South Korea have demonstrated for the first time nano-sized light-emitting diodes that can electrically drive an optical nanoscale circuit……

http://nanotechweb.org/cws/article/tech/56455

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Nano-LED driven optical nanocircuit.