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  • Light helps the transistor laser switch faster

    Mar 9, 2016 9:30 am by Liz AhlbergResearch
    photo of graduate students Junyi Wu and Curtis Wang and professor Milton Feng by L. Brian Stauffer

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    • photo of graduate students Junyi Wu and Curtis Wang and professor Milton Feng by L. Brian Stauffer

    A new study by University of Illinois engineers found that in the transistor laser, a device for next-generation high-speed computing, the light and electrons spur one another on to faster switching speeds than any devices available.