STTR Phase I: Nanophotonic Chip based on Aligned Carbon Nanotube Arrays with Active Hybrid-layered Structure

STTR第一阶段：基于具有活性混合层状结构的对齐碳纳米管阵列的纳米光子芯片

• 批准号: 0711743
• 负责人: Pengfei Wu
• 金额: $ 15万
• 依托单位: NEW SPAN OPTOTECHINOLOGY INC
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-07-01 至 2008-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0711743&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: STTR; Phase; Nanophotonic; Chip; based

This Small Business Technology Tranfers (STTR) Phase I research project will investigate a novel nanotube-based device capable of manipulating both photons and electrons on the same chip for data detection, processing and output. This device exploits aligned carbon-nanotube arrays as optical antennae to seize/emit photons with an active layer containing nanosized sensitive molecules to control the propagation of surface plasmons, leading to unique and useful optical features such as optical switching, controllable retro-reflection and wavelength add/drop multiplexing. This device, if successfully produced, has potential for communication, computing and sensing applications with significant performance improvement in speed, power consumption and sensitivity. The Phase I project will demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed optical-chip technique. The successful development of the proposed nanophotonic chip may have profound implications for communications, computing and sensing applications with significant performance improvement in speed, power consumption and sensitivity. It will also benefit development of ultracompact and lightweight optical sources, antenna transmitters and detectors. The high speed, high sensitivity and low power consumption expected for these devices would meet the requirements for future information systems in a variety of platforms, such as for highly sophisticated optical detection systems and communications networks. It may also enable the implementation of optical interconnects for on-chip computing systems and optical routers. In addition, the successful completion of this program will aid the development of nanoscale optical imaging systems including both near-field and far-field applications. Apart from the commercial applications, the proposed concept will be useful for the military defense applications such as dense arrays of intelligent sensors, compact reconnaissance platforms, and manned and unmanned military assets. These environments will need ultracompact, lightweight, low-power, low-cost optical sources, antenna transmitters, and detectors.

这个小型企业技术转移（STTR）第一阶段研究项目将研究一种新型的基于纳米管的设备，能够在同一芯片上操纵光子和电子，用于数据检测，处理和输出。该器件利用对齐的碳纳米管阵列作为光学天线来捕获/发射光子，其中活性层包含纳米尺寸的敏感分子以控制表面等离子体的传播，从而产生独特且有用的光学特征，例如光学开关、可控逆反射和波长分插复用。该器件如果成功生产，将具有通信、计算和传感应用的潜力，在速度、功耗和灵敏度方面具有显著的性能改进。第一阶段的项目将证明拟议的光学芯片技术的可行性。所提出的纳米光子芯片的成功开发可能对通信、计算和传感应用产生深远的影响，在速度、功耗和灵敏度方面具有显著的性能改进。它还将有利于超小型和轻型光源、天线发射机和探测器的发展。这些设备所预期的高速、高灵敏度和低功耗将满足未来各种平台信息系统的要求，例如高度复杂的光学检测系统和通信网络。它还可以实现用于片上计算系统和光学路由器的光学互连。此外，该计划的成功完成将有助于纳米级光学成像系统的发展，包括近场和远场应用。除了商业应用外，所提出的概念还将用于军事防御应用，例如密集的智能传感器阵列，紧凑的侦察平台以及有人和无人军事资产。这些环境将需要超紧凑、重量轻、低功耗、低成本的光源、天线发射器和探测器。