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English Dictionary - With Multi-Lingual Search Your Query of 'silicon photonics' Resulted in 1 Matches Displaying Items 1 through 1 Definitions silicon photonics noun  the technology discipline related to production of optical switching electronic devices using integrated circuit manufacturing technology : Here's a better way: replace the copper with optical fiber and the electrons with photons. That's the promise of silicon photonics: affordable optical communications for everything. It will let manufacturers build optical components using the same semiconductor equipment and methods they use now for ordinary integrated circuits, thereby dramatically lowering the cost of photonics. — "The Silicon Solution" by Mario Paniccia and Sean Koehl. IEEE Spectrum, October 2005. http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/oct05/1915. Etymology: silicon (generic term implying semiconductor devices) + photon (light) + -ics (pertaining to)        Find:   Words Starting With:   Words Ending With:   Words Containing:   Words That Match:    Translate Into:    Dutch   French   German    Italian   Spanish Browse the Dictionary A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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