High-Q Microresonators on a Silicon Wafer (IMAGE)

Washington University in St. Louis

High-Q Microresonators on a Silicon Wafer

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The high-Q microresonators could be mass produced by the hundreds of thousands on silicon wafers. Each torus is 20 to 30 micrometers across, one-tenth the size of the period at the end of this sentence. In this image, two particles (bright spots) have landed on the closest microresonator and are acting as scattering centers that disturb the light waves in the torus. This allows them to be detected and measured.

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Image by Jiangang Zhu and Jingyang Gan/WUSTL

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