Nature Communications (Mar 2018)

High-speed and on-chip graphene blackbody emitters for optical communications by remote heat transfer

  • Yusuke Miyoshi,
  • Yusuke Fukazawa,
  • Yuya Amasaka,
  • Robin Reckmann,
  • Tomoya Yokoi,
  • Kazuki Ishida,
  • Kenji Kawahara,
  • Hiroki Ago,
  • Hideyuki Maki

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03695-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Integrating graphene with existing silicon technologies may pave the way to compact light sources for optoelectronics and photonics. Here, the authors fabricate graphene-based arrays of blackbody emitters integrated on a silicon chip, operating in the near-infrared region at high speed.