Discovery of new property of light enables new applications in optoelectronics

Dmitry Fishman (right) and Eric Potma UC Irvine

Dmitry Fishman (right) and Eric Potma made a breakthrough discovery regarding the way light interacts with solid matter in silicon. Image: Lucas Van Wyk Joel / UC Irvine

Researchers showed that the momentum of visible light confined to nanoscale silicon crystals produces optical interaction in semiconductors, due to Raman scattering

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