When the light absorbers are made very small, almost all the device performance metrics improve—but doing this is easier said than done.
Andrey Feldman
Andrey got his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in elementary particle physics from Novosibirsk State University, and a Ph.D. in string theory from the Weizmann Institute of Science. Currently, he works as a science writer, specializing in physics, space, and technology.
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