Built-In Germanium Lasers Could Produce Faster Computer Chips

Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) researchers have found a revolutionary way by which they could channelize laser emitted by Germanium to create innovative computer chips which'll transfer information partially in the form of light, thus making data streaming within chips a breeze. Researchers demonstrated that Germanium must be strained by an external force so that it could transform into a laser material. The deciding tests were carried out at Swiss Light Source (SLS) at PSI, and the results of the same could be seen in the journal Physical Review Letters.
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1965 witnessed Gordon Moore proposing a law which stated that surface density of transistors in computer chips, and consequently their power, would double every two years. The validity of this law stood since the inception of the digital age, when the first integrated circuits for microprocessors were developed in 1960. But, regardless of all the advancements, the Moore's Law stands invalid since the last decade, which is now being termed 'Moore's Gap'. Reason- Modern chips contain more cores which communicate relatively slowly with each other with the present technology. Optical data transfer, as proposed by PSI, should attend to this problem. The research is supported by Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF).
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