Engineering of electrical and electronic systems, microelectronics, silicon devices and nanotechnology.

The silicon device, a hundredth the size of the hot wire, can be heated much faster, with less energy.

The result is a 10x better power-to-performance improvement versus the equivalent silicon devices.

A prototype 80 km, 12.5 Gbit/s transmission has recently been reported using microring silicon devices.

These integrated circuits are much more expensive than the more common silicon devices.

The processing speed of organic transistors is vastly inferior to that of silicon devices.

Method for making very shallow junctions in silicon devices.

"We plan to replace the piezoceramic materials with silicon devices," he said.

If a silicon device's overall power density gets high enough, it will begin to overheat and will eventually fail entirely.

Nor can such chips be easily integrated with silicon devices.