Electronic Metamaterials for Energy-Efficient and Energy-Autonomous Electronics

The explosion in energy consumption from microelectronics – due to the increasing reliance on Internet of Things devices, Artificial Intelligence, and Data Centers – is projected to exceed 20% of worldwide electricity production by 2030 and its current exponential growth would exceed global energy production by 2050 if left unchecked. These era-defining energy challenges not only require physical breakthroughs which drastically reduce the energy cost of information processing, i.e.

Historical Perspectives on Efficiency, Electrification, and Climate Change: What the Past Tells Us About the Future

An expert on U.S. energy policy, Jay Hakes has a long history of working on
energy issues, including as Administrator of the U.S. Energy Information
Administration during the Clinton administration and as Director for Research and
Policy for President Obama’s BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Commission. He also
served for thirteen years as the Director of the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library.

Computing at the Speed of Light

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Optical switches have the potential to reduce the energy required to switch data by factor of 10,000. Silicon photonics have the potential to reduce the energy require to transmit data on and off chips by a factor of ten or more. A recent collaboration with Intel led to the development of hybrid silicon lasers, which led to a prototype 50 Gbps high-speed optical data link, which is integrated onto silicon.

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