Journal article
On nanostructured silicon success
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Technical University of Denmark1
Solid Mechanics, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Technical University of Denmark2
Department of Electrical Engineering, Technical University of Denmark3
Acoustic Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering, Technical University of Denmark4
Department of Photonics Engineering, Technical University of Denmark5
Nanophotonic Devices, Department of Photonics Engineering, Technical University of Denmark6
Recent Letters by Piggott et al. 1 and Shen et al. 2 claim the smallest ever dielectric wave length and polarization splitters. The associated News & Views article by Aydin3 states that these works “are the first experimental demonstration of on-chip, silicon photonic components based on complex all-dielectric nanophotonic structures.” Here, we question the rationale behind the competition for a small device footprint as set out by the authors of the two papers 1,2 and also point out a lack of appropriate historical context in the three contributions 1–3.
| Language: | English |
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| Publisher: | Nature Publishing Group UK |
| Year: | 2016 |
| Pages: | 142-143 |
| ISSN: | 17494893 and 17494885 |
| Types: | Journal article |
| DOI: | 10.1038/nphoton.2016.26 |
| ORCIDs: | Sigmund, Ole , Jensen, Jakob Søndergaard and Frandsen, Lars Hagedorn |
