#Silicon #Photonics Breakthrough: The “Last Missing Piece” Now a Reality. Scientists from Forschungszentrum Jülich #FZJ the University of Stuttgart, the Leibniz Institute for High Performance Microelectronics #IHP and their French partner #CEALeti have successfully developed the first electrically pumped continuous-wave #semiconductor #laser made entirely from group IV elements, commonly referred to as the “silicon group” in the periodic table.

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