Faculty Awards for Women Scientists and Engineers

本研究是开发一种新型空间光调制器，它由铁电液晶（FLC）调制器和硅VLSI衬底组成，提供处理器和存储器之间的光电互连。通过在硅衬底上涂覆FLC材料，这些神经光电器件将具有两种技术的优点：光学提供并行输入和输出（避免VLSI引脚输出限制）；而且，电子学提供了处理功能的灵活性。这些器件非常适合光电子计算应用，如光学模式识别和相关，矢量量化器的模拟存储器，光学神经网络和早期感官感知芯片。

This research is to develop a new class of spatial light modulators, which are comprised of ferroelectric liquid crystal (FLC) modulators and silicon VLSI substrates to provide optoelectronic interconnects between processors and memory. By coating a silicon substrate with FLC material, those neural optoelectronic devices will have the advantages of both technologies: optics provides parallel inputs and outputs (avoiding the VLSI pin-out limitations); and, electronics provides the flexibility of the processing function. These devices are ideally suited for optoelectronic computing applications such as optical pattern recognition and correlation, analog memory for vector quantizers, optical neural networks and early sensory perception chips.