IEF News 2020
ETH Medal for Yannick Salamin
Our PhD-alumnus Yannick Salamin was honoured with the ETH Medal for his outstanding PhD-thesis on "Integrated Plasmonic Detectors and Mixers for Microwave and Terahertz applications". Congratulation!
A completely new plasmonic chip for ultrafast data transmission using light
ETH researchers have built an ultrafast chip that can speed up data transmission in fibre optic networks. The chip combines several innovations at the same time and, given the growing demand for streaming and online services, represents a significant development.
IEF Article in Top 50 Nature Communications
The article "Compact and ultra-efficient broadband plasmonic terahertz field detector" authored by IEF members was one of the most read Nature Communications physics articles in 2019.
Editor's Pick of IEF Paper by OSA optics Express
The paper "100 GBd IM/DD transmission over 14 km SMF in the C-band enabled by a plasmonic SSB MZM", authored by Benedikt Bäuerle et.al, published in Optics Express, has been highlighted as an Editor's Pick.