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UC San Diego researchers are leveraging quantum properties in engineered materials to manipulate light for ultrafast optical computing applications. This work advances the hardware frontier by exploring how metamaterial structures can process information at speeds and efficiencies beyond current electronic limits, directly addressing scalability challenges in next-generation processors.
UC San Diego Advances Quantum Metamaterials for Ultrafast Optical Computing
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Quantum metamaterials are one of the two research themes of the UC San Diego Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC), which is supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF). Quantum metamaterials are a cutting-edge subset of metamaterials. In general, metamaterials control how light moves through the material — […]
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