由John Hopkins大学(位于马里兰州的Baltimore)的Andreas Andreou教授领导的一个工程师小组,用光束代替金属连接线,可以大幅度提高信号在芯片内及芯片间的传输速度。这种方法使用了一种混合集成技术,在人工合成的蓝宝石衬底上形成硅层以制造集成电路。 这种以蓝宝石作衬底的硅CMOS(SOS-CMOS)是对通常体硅CMOS技 An engineer team led by Professor Andreas Andreou of John Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD, uses light beams instead of metal cables to dramatically increase the speed of signal transfer between the chip and the chip. This method uses a hybrid integrated technology to form a silicon layer on a synthetic sapphire substrate to make integrated circuits. This sapphire substrate for silicon CMOS (SOS-CMOS) is the general bulk silicon CMOS technology