02-Jun-2021 | Market Research Store
Artificial Intelligence is one of the leading technologies that are being employed in multifarious sectors. With the rapid advancement in technology across the globe, several studies focus on upgrading the systems involved in AI. At present, researchers have been planning to decode how a brain accumulates knowledge and how that information can be replicated using advanced Artificial Intelligence systems. The most recent attempt to reinforce the technology involves the usage of silicon-based microelectronics in combination with light. However, the use of photons for energy transfer in silicon chips seems quite complex owing to several key reasons.
A team of researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology has developed a method to remarkably enhance the abilities of Artificial Intelligence by incorporating photonic components with superconducting electronics. This innovative approach has been published in the journal Applied Physics Letters. Jeffrey Shainline, the author of the publication, stated that the team focused on employing superconductor electronic circuits, silicon light sources, and single-photon detectors under cold conditions. This might have surged the overall computing capability to a great extent.
The integration of light sources for linking multiple circuits in complex electronics will uplift the scale of AI systems’ functionality and usage to the next level. It would not be feasible to attain such enhanced AI capabilities using the conventional microelectronics approach. Shainline further said that he was amazed to see the remarkably improved performance of optoelectronic inclusion in the superconductors at low temperatures compared to the performance at room temperature.
With the inclusion of superconducting electronics, photon detectors will be able to detect even a single photon. However, the detectors embedded with the traditional approach have a baseline detection value of 1,000 photons. Therefore, the superconductor silicon light system operates only on 4 Kelvins. The novel approach is not only 1,000 times less bright than other conventional lights but also highly effective in communication.