Functional Materials for Next Generation Photonic Chips

Emerging and functional materials are critical for next-generation optoelectronic device performance, energy efficiency, and application capabilities. In this presentation we share recent developments on efficient, fast, and compact electro-optic modulators, as well as sensitive photodetectors with high gain bandwidth products, as part of advanced integrated photonic circuits. The second part of the presentation then shows how these emerging device-level technologies enable performance gains for photonic-electronic heterogeneous integrated AI chiplets to accelerate machine learning applications such as matrix-matrix multiplications and convolution operations.