Tiny Black Holes Enable a New Type of Photodetector for High-Speed Data

Andy Fell — April 03, 2017 - 8:00am

Tiny “black holes” on a silicon wafer make for a new type of photodetector that could move more data at lower cost around the world or across a data center. The technology, developed by electrical engineers at the University of California, Davis, and W&WSens Devices Inc. of Los Altos, California, a Silicon Valley startup, is described in a paper published April 3 in the journal Nature Photonics.

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Tiny Black Holes Enable a New Type of Photodetector for High-Speed Data