Using Bismides to reduce the energy demand of the internet
Wednesday 18 July 2012
Work conducted by Professor Stephen Sweeney's group at the Advanced Technology Institute, University of Surrey is featured in the Financial Times.
Clive Cookson writes that "researchers have redesigned the laser in a way that does not require a costly change to the manufacturing process. Although the change sounds small (replacing 10 per cent of arsenic or phosphorus atoms in the semiconductor with bismuth), it greatly reduces the energy consumption." Read the full article.