On-chip metal-to-metal tunnelling makes light without lasers

Light made on CMOS chips using quantum tunnelling could be used for optical interconnect and chemical sensing, according to physicists at King’s College London. The technique involves constructing a ~1nm gap between two metal electrodes (see diagram), and then using a potential difference to promote electron tunnelling across the gap. This tunnelling occurs in two ...

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