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Jonghyun Shin1, Pallab Bhattacharya, Jian Xu

  • 1Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-2122, USA.

Optics Letters
|November 5, 2004
PubMed
Summary

This study introduces the first integrated bacteriorhodopsin-semiconductor phototransceiver, a novel biophotonic optical interconnect. This device utilizes bacteriorhodopsin to detect light and a transistor to amplify the signal for optical output.

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